Rarity is a statistic applied to items and blocks to signify their value and ease in obtaining. It has no effect on gameplay whatsoever.
The official rarity may not necessarily reflect the actual difficulty of obtaining the rated item. For example, the golden apple, which is Rare and marked as rare in most cases, is easily obtainable by collecting apples and gold, while the uncommon elytra is a nonrenewable armor piece only reasonably obtainable after the Ender Dragon has been defeated and that the rare End Ship has been found. Also, fewer items have a rarity grade in Bedrock Edition than the Java edition; namely the Enchanted Book is the only Uncommon item in Bedrock Edition.
The only way to change an item's rarity is to enchant it, which brings its rarity from Uncommon to Rare, or from Rare to Epic.
Displaying[]
Rarity is intended to display anywhere the item name does.
In Java Edition it is shown in the following situations:
- Item tooltips in the inventory
- Item tooltips above the hotbar
- Successful executions of
/give
In Java Edition rarity colors do not display in the following cases:
- Item tooltips from an item frame[1]
- Contents tooltips from a shulker box[2]
- Item tooltips in the statistics screen[3]
- The CanPlaceOn/CanBreak tags of an item[4]
- Item names in the Superflat customization screen[5]
While the ominous banner in Java Edition displays its name in gold (
) for the first two cases above, that is not related to rarity. Items with NBT data cannot be specified for the last three cases.
Tiers[]
| Rarity | Description | List | BE Color | JE Color |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Applies to most items. | All blocks/items not listed | White | |
|
Mostly unprocessed treasure items and drops from minor bosses. | Banner Pattern (Creeper) Banner Pattern (Skull) Bottle o' Enchanting Dragon's Breath Elytra Heads Heart of the Sea Nether Star Totem of Undying |
Yellow | |
| Enchanted Book[more information needed] | Yellow | |||
|
Items crafted from treasure items and boss drops, as well as trickier to obtain treasures. | Beacon | Aqua | |
| Enchanted armor, tools and weapons Golden Apple Music Discs Conduit |
Yellow |
Aqua | ||
|
Mostly reserved for extremely difficult-to-obtain treasures.
Certain Creative-exclusive and administrative blocks and items are also contained here, however, exceptions exist (such as player heads, which are Uncommon). |
Banner Pattern (Thing) Dragon Egg |
White |
Light Purple |
| Enchanted Golden Apple Heavy Core |
Light Purple | |||
| Command Blocks Structure Block Structure Void Jigsaw Block Light Block Barrier Minecart with Command Block |
White |
Light Purple | ||
| Debug Stick Knowledge Book |
N/A | Light Purple | ||
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | The tooltip of the golden apple is now magenta, making it the first item to have a tooltip with a color other than white. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Music discs now have a cyan tooltip. | ||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Golden apples now have a cyan tooltip, and added enchanted golden apples, which have the same magenta tooltip color as normal golden apples previously did. | |||
| 1.13 | 18w21a | Added different colored tooltips for certain items, based on their rarity.[more information needed] | |||
| pre2 | Rarity colors now display over the hotbar.[6] | ||||
| 1.17 | 21w20a | Assigned a multitude of command-exclusive blocks and items the Epic rarity.[7] | |||
| 1.19.3 | 22w43a | Monster spawner now has "Common" rarity instead of "Epic". | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | The tooltip for enchanted books is yellow, while enchanted items are cyan, making these items the first items to have a tooltip with a color other than white. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | ? | Music discs now have a cyan tooltip. | |||
| 1.12.0 | beta 1.12.0.9 | Golden apples now have a cyan tooltip, while enchanted golden apples have a magenta tooltip. | |||