# Item rarity

_Five steps from common to mythic, for the things you make or find._

## Five steps

Things you make or find carry a rarity, shown as a tag with pips on the item's tile. From the most ordinary to the rarest:

- Common · one pip, driftwood.
- Fine · two pips, sea glass.
- Rare · three pips, open-ocean blue.
- Pristine · four pips, live coral.
- Mythic · five pips, ember orange.

## What carries one

Rarity belongs to what you make or find. Nothing bought in the [shop](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/shop) has one, and neither do fish: a fish has [quality](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/quality), which you earn by looking after it.

Worms from the culture drawer, everything mixed in the Workshop and the finds an expedition brings home roll a rarity. Hearts from expeditions carry a rarity; plain materials such as [Lantern Moss](https://fishies.lol/wiki/items/lantern-moss) do not.

## Better odds

Three things raise the chance of a rarer result, and they work together: better ingredients, a better station and a higher level. Each one counts on its own, so none of them is a gate.

The result is settled on the server the moment the item is made. Reloading the game can't change it.

## Rarity or quality?

Quality is a round stone beside a fish's name. Rarity is a cut tag with one to five pips, and the item's tile wears a frame in its colour. The two ladders never share a name, so you always know which one you're looking at.

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