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Commonplace Rare

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Commonplace Rare	page	CommonPlaceRare
Commonplace Rare	comment	In video games, seemingly common items often take an excessive amount of effort or money to acquire. You may expect an item to be common based on real-life experience and even see them used all over the place in the game, but you can't pick one up until you've completed the proper Side Quest. Probably not until much later into the game. This is frequently seen with capacity upgrades. Being able to hold more money and items is a big deal in a lot of games, so coming across a wallet or sack fifty floors deep into an ancient dungeon often makes the whole trip Worth It. Par for the course in most Point-and-Click Adventure Games, where there tends to only be one book of matches, or one pencil in the entire game universe. A form of Gameplay and Story Segregation. Often applies to parts in a Chain of Deals or Comically Small Demands. See also Unusable Enemy Equipment. Contrast Junk Rare and Oddly Common Rarity. Sometimes overlaps with Mundane Object Amazement or Mundane Luxury. Compare Not Rare Over There when something genuinely is rare or hard to obtain in some parts of the setting but is a mundane commodity in others. Examples
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Commonplace Rare / int_10ddd3d5	comment	While the only bow in the land is always locked in a dungeon, shops still sell arrows and enemies with bows still exist. There's even a market catering to people with bows, in the form of shooting mini-games. This one is partially justified in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, where it's heavily implied that the Hero's Bow is unique and magical. Averted in Link's Awakening, where you can actually purchase the bow for an exorbitant 980 rupees (or steal it).
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Commonplace Rare / int_12381dc	comment	In Divinity: Original Sin II, there's tons of useless everyday items whose sole purpose is too be sold for dough. And yet, there's only ONE teapot in the entire game that you find in the very last chapter. You can't even take it or steal it, you have to return to its location every time you need to make some tea.
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Commonplace Rare / int_145d9b29	comment	In Star Ocean: The Second Story, you have to go into a dangerous cave filled with monsters as a test of strength - the proof of your journey being to bring back a rare and undiscovered herb. It turns out to be clary sage, a fairly common, hardy and widely-distributed medicinal plant. Still, everyone reacts as if it was incredibly rare. On the other hand, you're explicitly not on Earth in this scene—you're on the planet Expel, where Clary Sage very well might be a rarity. If you want to go the extra mile, however, you can go further into the cave and find the Dill Whip. This doesn't bring you any reward whatsoever, but at least you get told that your characters have found a legitimately undiscovered plant.
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Commonplace Rare / int_18795f27	comment	A Thousand and One... Americas: The majority of characters whom Chris meets in his dreams are surprised to see a red-haired person like him and/or a yellow-furred dog like Lon (some characters even Chris has a fire hair). This is because, in Real Life, such people and dogs respectively weren't sighted in the Americas until the arrival of European civilizations.
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Commonplace Rare / int_19df8aa2	comment	So too with backpacks in the world of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning's Amalur. A backpack in the starting town of Gorhart has a base price of 7500 gold, more than nearly any magical weapon available at the time.
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Commonplace Rare / int_1a8119af	comment	Dragon Quest VIII has a ship that qualifies as this. You need a ship, so you need to find an ancient abandoned ship in the desert, then go through a monster-filled castle to find the library, then get a once in a lifetime wish and give someone a priceless ancient artifact owned by a king who owes you a favor, to put the ancient ship in the water. Why you can't just ask the king for a ship remains unexplained.
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Commonplace Rare / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Backpacks are some of the rarest, most expensive goods in Dragon Age's Ferelden.
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Commonplace Rare / int_1adee40d	comment	In The World Ends with You where the only way to construct the third wallet requires Orichalcum and Dark Matter. That's some wallet. They're also extremely rare if you waste the few you get as a part of the story. You can only obtain Dark Matter (or its trade material Shadow Matter) from some of the hardest enemies in the game.
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Commonplace Rare / int_1c25db94	comment	Suikoden's Chain of Deals is this as well, as the item you're ultimately after is soap. Which Sarah finds on her own while you're looking for it. At least she appreciates the effort and joins your party.
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Commonplace Rare / int_21e2f10d	comment	A mid-level quest in Dragon Quest III requires the player to travel halfway around the world, loot an ancient pyramid, and rescue a shopkeeper's daughter so that said shopkeeper will bestow upon you some ground black pepper. But considering that historically spices were occasionally worth more than gold by weight... it makes a certain amount of sense that someone with the resources of a king might trade something that isn't irreplaceable (a ship) for something that, in that part of the world, was practically one of a kind.
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Commonplace Rare / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the rubber armor set, which reduces damage from electricity and can make you completely immune to it if upgraded. In this case, the rarity of rubber is justified by the fact that no one knows how to make it anymore.
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Commonplace Rare / int_226fedf0	comment	Jones in the Fast Lane: The prices in the Monolith Burger are weird—a cheeseburger for $89, fries for $65, shakes for $103... That said, each of these fills you up for an entire week, so it probably shouldn't be taken literally. (Though it implies that you've been living on nothing but milkshakes the entire week... This cannot possibly be healthy.)
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Commonplace Rare / int_24089637	comment	In The Girl from the Miracles District, oranges are extremely rare and valuable in the Miracles District, as they can only be obtained in the human world, and the people of the district are physically unable to get there. At one point, Nikita manages to buy extremely sensitive information with nothing but a small crate of them.note This has some basis in reality; in Poland (where the "human world" in question is set) in the height of Communist era, oranges could only be found in shops during the Christmas period.
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Commonplace Rare / int_2a04866b	comment	An even worse example involving dyes is Guild Wars, where dye of ALL colors are only obtainable as entirely random world drops. There's a "dye merchant" but he only carries what other players have sold to him and his prices depend on supply and demand. Naturally, this means more popular dyes are much more expensive, and of course the most expensive here is also black. The best part is that dye doesn't actually do anything other than change the color of one of your pieces of armor. This is in no way surprising however, as top-quality gear is very easy to obtain, and the only things of any particular value for experienced players is gear that looks particularly nice.
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Commonplace Rare / int_2acb12c5	comment	In the X-Universe games, microchips are everywhere — weapons, ships, components of all kinds. And yet, good luck finding some in the universe — there's so much demand, and the production process involves such a convoluted chain of supply, that most chip factories are permanently empty — the few chips they produce are instantly snatched up by NPC traders. And if you do manage to be faster than the traders, expect to pay ludicrous prices for them. And you need to gather 75,000 of them for the last stage of the Hub plot. Good thing you can build your own Chip Plants, or else this plot would be next to impossible.
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Commonplace Rare / int_2ccd14d	comment	Secret of Evermore has the alchemy system. Oh, sure it makes some sense to have trouble gathering things like Oil, or Wax, but... water? It's not even like it has to be purified water, you can literally scoop it from a river in the middle of a swamp. But only in certain spots that are sniffed out by your dog.
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Commonplace Rare / int_2dc12aeb	comment	NetHack: Two of most useful items in the game are a magic marker and a can of grease. Both are disgustingly uncommon. note The most useful item in the game is easily a Wand of Wishing. Which you will then use to wish for grease and magic markers. The Magic Marker is not actually commonplace (because it is, as the name implies, an actually magical marker, capable of writing scrolls that can genocide entire species); however, the can of grease is an entirely mundane and ordinary can of grease. Another inexplicably uncommon item: shirts. T-shirts and Hawaiian shirts have no armor value in and of themselves, but can be enchanted to give a valuable extra few points of protection. If you can find one. Wishing or polymorphing may be necessary. Unless you play as a tourist, in which case you'll be wearing one at the start of the game.
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Commonplace Rare / int_2e839104	comment	In Scarface: The World Is Yours it's entirely possible to have lackeys wielding weapons the player is not yet allowed to buy. Don't fret. They can give them to the boss by placing them in the trunks of special cars (think mobile armory). Doesn't quite work with the boat-mounted machine guns that Tony can later buy to wield himself. Also, it doesn't quite matter how much cash Tony has. Being able to purchase entirely legal items (such as a vending machine or a park bench) depends on how much his enemies respect him.
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Commonplace Rare / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Most of the permanent stat boosting items across the Fire Emblem series have flowery names such as "Goddess Icon" and "Seraph Robe", but few can match the power and staggering rarity of the "Boots", which increase movement speed by two in a series where the average unit has about six. Most games have one set of them hidden somewhere, and that's it. For comparison, in the first game, this makes a set of Boots as rare as a staff that can bring someone who is Deader than Dead back to life.
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Commonplace Rare / int_3055fc61	comment	Golden Sun: Apples, cookies, hard nuts, lucky pepper, mints, and power bread. You'd think things like bread and cookies would be common, you tend to find them in unceremonious places like jars and ovens in people's homes, and nothing seems to imply these are rare or special variants of commonplace things, but there's only 10 of each of these across both games. In the first game, Isaac only ever gets one empty glass bottle, which can only be used to collect the healing Hermes Water of Mercury Lighthouse. One wonders what happens to the containers for all those Elixers and Vials and Potions and Mist Potions... not to mention, what the heck is the Water of Life stored in? Golden Sun: The Lost Age's big Chain of Deals starts with a... shiny pebble. No, literally, a shiny pebble. You trade this for a brightly-colored piece of cloth, which you trade for a bottle of milk, which you trade for a baby turtle, which you trade for access to the Bonus Dungeon. Got that? You trade a baby turtle for the Bonus Dungeon.
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Commonplace Rare / int_30940081	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_30940081	comment	In Grand Theft Auto V, the Declasse Asea should in theory be a common sight on the streets of Los Santos being based on the Chevrolet Aveo sedan. But in the original version of the game it only ever appears twice, once as an impossible to keep rental car, and again found parked at the end of a side-mission. If you do not take it after the latter, it's Permanently Missable. Eventually it was made purchasable in Online, and can be found on the streets in the Enhanced version of the game.
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Commonplace Rare / int_30c1ffd0	comment	In Stardew Valley, the only way to get a tea set is by gift during the Feast of the Winter Star, on one day of the entire in-game year. Any adult other than Clint, Evelyn, Marnie, Robin, or Willy may give you a tea set, but even if your secret gift-giver isn't one of these townspeople, there's still no guarantee that they'll give you a tea set. Backpacks cost 2000-10000 coin. The first farmhouse expansion costs the same as the second backpack! Either Pierre is price-gouging, or Robin is seriously undercharging.
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Commonplace Rare / int_36ee2abe	comment	In the Paranoia RPG, the ability to recolour equipment which is above one's security clearance (and therefore punishable by death to possess or be seen using) to a colour you are cleared for (and therefore make the gear usable) is very important. Not least because stabbing each other in the back is the whole point of the game, and a low-clearance RED laser, for instance, will be defeated by not-quite-so-low-clearance ORANGE body armour. Since players are usually RED level, this is more useful than one might initially think. This results in paint being one of the most restricted types of item in the game. Other items requiring high security clearance include really powerful weapons like cone rifles and plasma generators, but also some things that are utterly mundane in real life, like chapstick and umbrellas.
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Commonplace Rare / int_37b56f7	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_37b56f7	comment	Baldur's Gate II: in Throne of Bhaal, powerful magic items are everywhere, while non magic common items are never used as basically useless. Except in the lair of Yaga-Shura, where there are some enemies that can be hurt only by non magic weapons, and the games places such items hidden in the dungeon for this purpose among other valuable loot.
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Commonplace Rare / int_3d5f2652	comment	In Project Almanac, the machine needs hydrogen to work, which they resort to stealing from the school. Technically you can get it by running a current through water, but pressurizing and bottling it would be rather difficult.
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Commonplace Rare / int_3d90857a	comment	At one point in Beyond Divinity, a dying prisoner asks for a drink of water. You have to go back almost to the start to get the only bottle of water on the level. This takes you through a guard station, mess hall and kitchen area but none of the dozens of cups and bottles contain any water or can be filled from the numerous barrels and sinks. In Divinity: Original Sin II, there's tons of useless everyday items whose sole purpose is too be sold for dough. And yet, there's only ONE teapot in the entire game that you find in the very last chapter. You can't even take it or steal it, you have to return to its location every time you need to make some tea.
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Commonplace Rare / int_3e0b28b5	comment	A similar thing happens in Dead Rising 2, even the most trivial items (snacks, slot machines, etc.) cost almost $100. Although if you were to move the decimal 2 places the prices would make more sense.
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Commonplace Rare / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Human hearts and skin are among the rarest alchemy ingredients in the game (with only 5 and 2 non-respawning samples) and are never available as Organ Drops.
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Commonplace Rare / int_474c18c1	comment	In BioShock Infinite, most of the vigors seem to be mass-produced as alternate power sources or have other industrial applications, so they shouldn't exactly be rare. However, a whole long level is dedicated to retrieving a single bottle of the Shock Jockey vigor to fix one of the game's Broken Bridge. Made even more egregious by seeing an overturned cargo container full of said vigor bottles in the next level.
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Commonplace Rare / int_49a84be6	comment	The ultimate forging item for Onion Knight's ultimate weapon in Final Fantasy III, requiring five Megalixers (which themselves are excessively difficult to get)? An onion. Thematically appropriate, but it's still an onion.
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Commonplace Rare / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has a lot of gear that are only used for glamour purpose and are fashioned after seemingly common items like sleeveless shirts, winter coats, swimwear, etc. However, the materials needed to craft said gear are difficult to find, thus it's quite common to see players sell the crafted gear for a lot of gil.
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Commonplace Rare / int_49ad83ee	comment	Special holiday events can push extremely common and normally unsought after materials to high prices as lazy players find it easier to buy them rather than loot them, resulting in massive price gouging. For example, in World of Warcraft christmas events generally involve giving milk and cookies to santa. Cookies can be crafted by anyone with level 1 cooking skill, but require bird eggs, which can drop from just about any level 1 avian enemy. Bird eggs move from being unsellable on the AH to stupidly expensive as soon as santa arrives.
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Commonplace Rare / int_4c56381b	comment	Money is surprisingly rare in The Binding of Isaac to enforce the theme of suffering (poverty, in this case). Playing a slot machine until it explodes will rarely give you a dollar, and there's no other way to get one. Sometimes you can sacrifice some of your permanent health to a demon altar for a quarter. However, the most expensive items are in the realm of 15 cents, so if you do get that dollar, it'll probably last the entire game.
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Commonplace Rare / int_4cf36e52	comment	In Offworld Trading Company, glass is one of the final resources and is very valuable. It can't be mined, only manufactured by combining Silicon and Oxygen into silicon dioxide—more commonly known as sand.
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Commonplace Rare / int_4d6ad22f	comment	In Virtue's Last Reward, Root beer is described as being more expensive than the finest alcoholic drink. This is a hint that the outside world isn't quite the one Sigma lived in before being kidnapped.
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Commonplace Rare / int_4df2c1e9	comment	Puzzle Pirates: Black clothing is very valuable, as black dye can only be obtained by pilfering kraken's blood, a rare resource, from strong merchant ships. Nope, you can't kill a kraken yourself, much less mix different colors of dye together. This actually makes sense, considering that no matter what proportion you mix different colors dye together, you'll only ever get a really dark shade of brown, not black. The only way to get black dye... is by mixing a black pigment with a solvent.
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Commonplace Rare / int_5075737a	comment	Golden Sun: The Lost Age's big Chain of Deals starts with a... shiny pebble. No, literally, a shiny pebble. You trade this for a brightly-colored piece of cloth, which you trade for a bottle of milk, which you trade for a baby turtle, which you trade for access to the Bonus Dungeon. Got that? You trade a baby turtle for the Bonus Dungeon.
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Commonplace Rare / int_507dfb6a	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_507dfb6a	comment	EarthBound (1994), since it takes place in an Urban Fantasy instead of medieval times, is full of them. Made more obvious by the fact that prices are based on their value in yen, yet in-game currency is dollars, leading to a $3480 frying pan and a $98 cup of noodles.
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Commonplace Rare / int_513c73f3	comment	In Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, there's a quest where the heroes must venture into dangerous woods, making their way past monsters and solving puzzles... to find a sprig of Rosemary.
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Commonplace Rare / int_5209cf3c	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_5209cf3c	comment	In the Mario & Luigi series in general, beans act like stat boosting Rare Candy. That you have to either dig up from the ground, win in mini games or get with certain item equips. In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Wellington Boots. This fairly common place (in the real world anyway) piece of footwear is, in this game, a rare random drop found only on a certain enemy in the final dungeon. And it turns out said clothing is the only practical way to get the aforementioned beans...
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Commonplace Rare / int_58cf4968	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_58cf4968	comment	Only three NPCs in the SFC version of Tales of Phantasia seem to possess bags in which the player party can carry food to eat.
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Commonplace Rare / int_5908ee91	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_5908ee91	comment	In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, there are many rare alchemy ingredients that logically ought to be relatively common. For example, you'd think you could get human flesh and human hearts from every enemy you kill, but they're some of the rarest ingredients in the game, and are never looted from human enemies. Contrast Dremora hearts, which are looted from every Dremora you kill. Giants toes are a great example. You would think you could get ten from every giant you kill, you are lucky if you get one. Only two samples of Spiced Beef can be found in the game; this item cannot be crafted using the cooking mechanic despite both beef and spices being commonplace.
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Commonplace Rare / int_59da62aa	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas .22 LR rounds are cheap but extremely few stores sell them and they're dropped very little, even though in real life they are the most produced and widely distributed type of ammunition in the world. Made worse by it being the only type of bullet that you can't craft because it's a rimfire cartridge.
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Commonplace Rare / int_5bfa9c98	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe The Machete is a Grineer blade weapon used by common Scorpion units. It used to be availaible for players through the market early in Warframe's history, but was removed from it and since then became available only through a blueprint very rarely gained from Teshin's Daily Tribute, and only if you haven't mastered the weapon in the first place, or from grinding the shit out of Cephalon Simarisâ€™s hunts for standing. The Detron is a sidearm used by common Corpus units, yet rather than being available through the market or clan dojo it can be assembled only with parts looted from the Zanuka Hunter, who may appear on Corpus-controlled territories if you finished enough invasion missions for the Grineer. Ironically, the unique variants of the Detron are much easier to acquire, with the Mara Detron being purchasable from Baro Kiâ€™Teer whereas the Tenet Detron can be acquired from a generated Sister of Parvos.
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Commonplace Rare / int_5cb7fc72	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_5cb7fc72	comment	In System Shock 2, it's the beakers you need to gather annelid worms to use as ammo for the virus proliferator. You'd expect beakers to be ten a penny on a vessel with significant bioresearch facilities, but you'll have to look hard to find more than a dozen.
Commonplace Rare / int_5cb7fc72	featureApplicability	1.0
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System Shock 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_5cb7fc72
Commonplace Rare / int_61e400a0	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_61e400a0	comment	In Path of Exile, fishing rods are extremely rare, but are nigh-useless as weapons. They can only drop if you have a specific unique tricorne equipped. The bait is just as equally rare: albino rhoa feathers can only drop from the elusive albino rhoa, which spawns extremely rarely in one entire area in the game. It is said that these are the items required for fishing, but nobody actually knows how to fish, as it is said the staff will relentlessly hunt down anyone who discloses the secrets of fishing.
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Commonplace Rare / int_6805fbf8	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_6805fbf8	comment	My Time at Portia has Valves, strangely enough. They're a required element of certain important storyline commissions in the mid-game but can only be found in the ruins rather then crafted. Which comes across as strange when you can craft pulleys, working electrical lights and various power tools, but a simple valve is somehow too difficult to make.
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Commonplace Rare / int_68ff28c9	comment	Silent Hill 2. You are required to solve four puzzles to get four keys / combinations to open a chest. What you get from the chest are a few pieces of hair which must be combined with a hook to fish a MacGuffin from a drain. The fact that James' own hair is clearly long enough to suffice for this, or that there must have been a few hundred reasonable replacements for thread strewn about are never addressed.
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Commonplace Rare / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress: Black dye for cloth. The process for weaving and dyeing fabric is a fairly complex one that takes a fair bit of setting up (one plant has to be grown and woven into cloth and another has to be ground up to make dye, and the latter process requires building a mill which has its own production chain), and black dye has the added complication that the plant it's made from only grows natively in biomes with unusually hostile wildlife and the only race that has domesticated and cultivated it are the goblins. Blue dye might be this from the perspective of the human or elven merchants the player trades with, as it's made from a plant that only grows underground.
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Commonplace Rare / int_6c1d09b3	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 has this on occasion, a Justified Trope in that most of the items you find are ruined. Regardless, you'll find yourself painstakingly searching through an entire library for books or through an entire supermarket for food.
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Commonplace Rare / int_6c1d09b4	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has several items that are necessary for crafting. The first rare item will be adhesive, naturally found in the form of duct tape and Wonderglue. Once the player sets up a couple of farms and starts making vegetable starch, aluminum will be fairly rare. And after fully upgrading the weapons and power armor, building up the numerous settlements will certainly cut into the supply of gears, copper and oil, and only the last one is craftable (and still requires bones, which can mostly be found by raiding super mutant encampments).
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Commonplace Rare / int_6d8311c4	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_6d8311c4	comment	In PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver, a road is blocked by a 'tree' (actually a PokÃ©mon, Sudowoodo), so nobody can pass there. You have to defeat the (difficult) Gym Leader in order to acquire an item that will allow you to remove said tree: the Squirtbottle, a Squirtle-shaped watering can. (Sudowoodo is actually Rock-type, making it weak to water.)
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Commonplace Rare / int_6fe3e8a7	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: The rarest items initially were... food. The only place food was generated was at the food stores every five minutes. Unfortunately, they ran out in 15 seconds or so. You could feed your pets at the soup kitchen if you were poor enough, which led to lots of people in Perpetual Poverty just so they wouldn't have to spend all their money on an apple. Luckily, you could still get free food every day from the Giant Omelette and the Giant Jelly, and once a month from a hidden link. The problem has since been negated by the addition of more places and ways to obtain food, including the General Store, which unlike every other shop never runs out of stock. Zigzagged in the case of paintbrushes - some of the most rare and sought-after items on the site are paintbrushes, but the rare ones are explicitly magical in nature, and have the power to permanently change your pet's appearance. Non-magical paintbrushes exist and are more common... but there are nowhere near as many varieties of normal ones as there are magic ones, simply because they don't serve much of an actual purpose, and there is therefore no need to have over 100 types of boring normal paintbrushes.
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Commonplace Rare / int_70814599	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_70814599	comment	In Stargate SG-1, this is invoked to convince the Goa'uld Nerus to work with Earth:
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Commonplace Rare / int_73cdb697	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_73cdb697	comment	Resident Evil has the mansion keys. Realistically every employee should have had a full set of these, since even going to the bathroom requires at least the Sword and Armor key, so raiding the first zombie encountered should have opened up the entire mansion. However, because that doesn't make for good gameplay and because Umbrella are clearly batshit insane, there's only one of each in existence and you need to solve a ton of puzzles and fight a giant plant to find them all.
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Commonplace Rare / int_7440e4b3	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_7440e4b3	comment	In Tomodachi Life, oddly enough, the "trash" foods * banana peel, moldy bread, spoiled milk, and ruined meal are among the rarest items in the game. The only way to get them is if they're sold at the morning market, gotten as a prize at the night market, a Mii makes them with a frying pan, or they spawn from the "hunger," "ritual," or "true love" dreams. Considering just how many foods there are in the game, the chance of any of these things happening is pretty low.
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Commonplace Rare / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: In many games in the series, glass bottles are extremely valuable to Link; he usually can only find about four of them in each game and it requires searching the farthest, most remote places in Hyrule. Yet there's frequently a thriving milk industry, and potion sellers can't only be selling to people who have traveled past The Lost Woods to get the one glass bottle that Farmer Brown is only willing to give to someone who completes his mini-game. You don't need (usually explicitly magical) glass bottles to drink potions or milk, except you do because the game won't let you use anything else. In Skyward Sword, the rarity of glass bottles (one NPC equates being allowed to keep one as adequate reward for saving his sister's life) is actually justified this time around. Glass is made from sand, sand is crushed rocks, and the Floating Continent everybody lives on has an alarmingly finite amount of habitable land as it is. Breaking any up to smelt glass (which can easily fall from the island or shatter into uselessness) would have very permanent consequences. On the other hand, it's playfully lampshaded in A Link Between Worlds. The vendor selling a bottle for a high price is noted by a nearby shopkeeper to be a charlatan, and one character gives you a bottle after he's done using it with the expectation that you'll throw it away. Breath of the Wild finally does away with this, freely giving you bottles for ingredients (milk, Goron spice) and any elixirs you brew. Getting an "adult's wallet" that carries more Rupees seems to always require fantastic feats and gifts from supernatural creatures. This despite Link's apparent Hyperspace Arsenal/Bag of Holding inventory. It's the same with larger quivers and bomb bags, too, although in the case of the bomb bag, several games state that they're crafted by Gorons and made of odd or rare materials like Dodongo stomachs and/or the woven fibers of bomb flowers. While the only bow in the land is always locked in a dungeon, shops still sell arrows and enemies with bows still exist. There's even a market catering to people with bows, in the form of shooting mini-games. This one is partially justified in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, where it's heavily implied that the Hero's Bow is unique and magical. Averted in Link's Awakening, where you can actually purchase the bow for an exorbitant 980 rupees (or steal it). In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, a sidequest involves a ghost on the toilet asking for "any kind of paper". Despite there being a lot of books and paper pieces in the classroom, as well as several rather pointless paper notices you can read on the wall, the only piece of paper you're allowed to give is the love letter a classmate asked you to give to a girl. And no, after the girl shoots the letter down you're not getting it back. A similarly-appearing character in need of paper appears in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. And you can give him a love letter too, except the love letter here should actually be used to start another sidequest. As an alternative, a Title Deed can be given as well, but it too has another intended purpose. Time Travel solves the dilemma. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the rubber armor set, which reduces damage from electricity and can make you completely immune to it if upgraded. In this case, the rarity of rubber is justified by the fact that no one knows how to make it anymore. In The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, you must repeatedly visit the Temple of the Ocean King, a cursed place filled with evil phantoms and multiple puzzles that drains the life of anyone who enters it, in order to acquire... maps that allow you to sail from one island to another. Something you'd expect to be far more common in a ship-filled seafaring world like this one.
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Commonplace Rare / int_75a99717	comment	In Sam & Max Hit the Road, while you can travel all across the United States, various items are frustratingly difficult to come by. For example, you need a cork to plug a snow globe, but you can't just get one from anywhere - you need to unscrew the only bottle of wine you can get in the entire game. And you can't just buy a corkscrew or let some waiter open the bottle for you; oh no, you have to give an icepick to a magician who turns that tool into a corkscrew.
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Commonplace Rare / int_76376304	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_76376304	comment	Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light have disconcerting scarcities of gas mask filters. Considering that almost every single common model of gas mask in the world uses the same 40mm threads and compatible filters, it's strange that you can only use a few of the otherwise rather abundant filters and masks scattered around the Metro. For comparison, it's like not being able to use television remotes unless they were made by Panasonic, and are powered by Rayovac non-rechargeable AA's.
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Commonplace Rare / int_76c6804a	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_76c6804a	comment	Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin has one Guide Dang It! example - the longsword. A simple weapon, probably obsolete at the time you pick it up. What takes this from oddity to hair-tearingly frustrating is that while these were as common as you'd expect in other Metroidvania games, there's only one here, it's necessary for a sidequest (and with only 5 available at a time, you want to complete these), you won't know this until some time later, and there's nothing stopping you from selling it.
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Commonplace Rare / int_791fca44	comment	In one of the vending machines in BioShock, a cream-filled cake is around $90 despite it being found on the floor anywhere. This was done to show how without any capital control the companies could charge whatever price they want. Said machine is in a theater hallway, doubling it as a Take That! against real life concession stands' exorbitant markups.
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Commonplace Rare / int_7b429ebd	comment	Saints Row 2 has the Quasar, a luxurious Land Rover-esque SUV that is also one of the Westside Rollerz' gang cars in the first game. The car can only be found driven by rich civilians or parked around Downtown Stilwater, but oddly, the spawn values are set considerably lownote roughly a 1 in 940 chance of seeing one. The car is supposed to spawn much more commonly within the Suburbs Expansion district, but the group of cars assigned to spawn don't due to a coding error, which means that it is common to play through the entire game without seeing one. Thankfully, it is possible to force the game into spawning a Quasar by driving other cars driven by rich civilians around Downtown.
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Commonplace Rare / int_7c19a801	comment	FTL: Faster Than Light has several "weak" weapons such as the basic laser ("Very weak laser"), dual lasers ("Basic weak dual lasers. Often used by transport ships that can't afford better"), and mini beam ("Extremely cheap and weak beam weapon"). Despite their uninspiring descriptions, none of these weapons can ever be purchased or found - they're only available as starting equipment on certain ships. On top of that, the supposedly "weak" dual lasers and mini beam are actually two of the most efficient weapons in the game.
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Commonplace Rare / int_7c2bbc0e	comment	Granted, The Perils of Akumos takes place on a space station, but you still go to odd lengths to find a used coffee cup.
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Commonplace Rare / int_7f9dbbcc	comment	In Far Cry 2, one mission requires you to go to a diamond mine to steal some dynamite, which you're told you'll need to destroy a water pump. The only practical way of getting the dynamite is killing all of the mercenaries guarding the mine, and there are at least a dozen of them, meaning that this little fetch task inevitably turns into a full blown firefight. This all seems very pointless, since you have RPGs, hand grenades, improvised explosive devices and M79 grenade launchers available at this point, and any one of those should have had no trouble with the fragile-looking pump. It's even worse when it comes to ammo upgrades. When you can only carry 90 total assault rifle bullets, a 67% increase to 150 sounds pretty good. In real life, you could achieve this exact thing with a double-mag pouch, which you can find at a tactical store or online for about $15. In game, you must pay 15 golf ball-sized DIAMONDS. Damn, how much for just a fanny pack?
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Commonplace Rare / int_811aebd3	comment	Ultima: In Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle, one of the common reagents you use for spellcasting is mandrake, and indeed it can be found and bought in plenty of places. Later in the game, an NPC gives you the task to obtain mandrake. For some reason, only mandrake from one specific location qualifies, all the other mandrake doesn't work; and you can't get to that spot yet (semi-justified in that he wants fresh mandrake, and the stuff you can buy is presumably dried: it doesn't make a difference a spell reagent, though). Going back further in the series, in Ultima IV mandrake and nightshade cannot be bought, and can only be harvested in one place each in the entire world, during one particular lunar phase.
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Commonplace Rare / int_822a75d9	comment	Memoirs of Magic: There is only one guaranteed Chicken Pie in the entire game, located in the Misty Forest. You can occasionally get an additional one from the already limited presents, but there are far better items to chase in those, not to mention better healing items.
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Commonplace Rare / int_865b5c19	comment	Runescape: Party hats are some of the rarest, most expensive items. What is a Party Hat? A crown made of colored paper. There are also discontinued holiday healing items that are rather valuable, such as pumpkins, Easter eggs, and the most valuable item in the game - Christmas crackers. Half-full wine jugs are also ludicrously expensive (originally, you drank half of a jug of wine at a time, but they later changed it so your character chugged the whole thing). The quest "One Small Favour" will take at least four hours of dedicated running around the map doing errands for a huge number of people for an incredibly unique item: A keyring. A small band of steel, bars of which most players have sitting in their banks, which even the universe's greatest blacksmiths cannot replicate. While doing "One Small Favour", you learn to craft an item that you cannot learn to make otherwise, despite the item itself being needed for two other quests ("Swan Song" and "Back To My Roots"), thus making One Small Favour a prerequisite for those quests. The item in question? A clay pot lid for those clay pots that you've been making since Level 1 Crafting.
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Commonplace Rare / int_87b4dc3c	comment	An interesting case with Donkey Kong. In the Donkey Kong Country CG cartoon, the Crystal Coconut was a rare and powerful artifact that the bad guys were trying to steal. In Donkey Kong 64, it's not all that hard to acquire a large number of them, as you use them to access special abilities.
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Commonplace Rare / int_8c87469c	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, a sidequest involves a ghost on the toilet asking for "any kind of paper". Despite there being a lot of books and paper pieces in the classroom, as well as several rather pointless paper notices you can read on the wall, the only piece of paper you're allowed to give is the love letter a classmate asked you to give to a girl. And no, after the girl shoots the letter down you're not getting it back.
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Commonplace Rare / int_8da0ea80	comment	In PokÃ©mon Red and Blue, a bicycle costs 1 million Pokedollars (you can only have up to 999,999), but a short while later in Vermillion City, you can get a free bike voucher that allows you to get the bike.
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Commonplace Rare / int_8f5a610b	comment	In Monster Hunter: World, wild chicken only becomes available several dozen hours in, from a collectible in a high-level area. (You can get eggs long before that, but they're from wingdrakes or wyverns, not true birds.) Given just how many superpowered predators inhabit the setting, it makes sense that such a small and vulnerable species would be rare- they all got eaten, like what happened to the passenger-pigeon.
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Commonplace Rare / int_8f8233e	comment	In Blasphemous, knots of rosary cord are incredibly rare, when given how intensely religious all of Cvstodia is, you'd think they'd be all over the place. This is explained in game as one character being so good at making rosaries that the church decreed that her rosaries were the only ones worth using, and that all others were unholy and should be destroyed. Since she died long before the events of the game, there haven't been any new rosaries made in quite a while.
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Commonplace Rare / int_91684031	comment	Fishing Rods, which are only available by finding three specific expert fishermen on your journey; in Black and White and Black 2 and White 2, you don't get any rod until post-game.
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Commonplace Rare / int_959e6cb	comment	Dragon Quest IX. Early on, you'll run across a sidequest to help make medicine out of the famous cure-all water of Angel Falls. The man who makes the medicine requires "fresh water" to make this medicine... which you won't be finding for several hours, five towns later. Turns out, by "fresh water", he means the alchemy ingredient you can find in predetermined spots on the world map. According to the item's description, the "fresh water" is "wondrous" and of "perfect purity", but when you're asked for "fresh water", you don't expect that to turn out to be a mid-level alchemical treasure, do you? (Special mention also goes to another alchemy ingredient found only on a few enemies, or in a single gathering area on an island... kitty litter.)
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Commonplace Rare / int_986e857e	comment	Iron is apparently rare anywhere but on Earth in the Ben 10 universe. This seems unlikely, but apparently iron is known to the rest of the universe as one half of a compound explosive enough to destroy solar systems.
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Ben 10	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_986e857e
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Commonplace Rare / int_9c3ad747	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, you must repeatedly visit the Temple of the Ocean King, a cursed place filled with evil phantoms and multiple puzzles that drains the life of anyone who enters it, in order to acquire... maps that allow you to sail from one island to another. Something you'd expect to be far more common in a ship-filled seafaring world like this one.
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Commonplace Rare / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, there is only one muffin on the entire island of Vvardenfell. And it already belongs to someone, so the only way to obtain it is to steal the delicious baked good. And if you eat said muffin, it gives you the exact same stamina regeneration as a normal, common piece of bread. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Human hearts and skin are among the rarest alchemy ingredients in the game (with only 5 and 2 non-respawning samples) and are never available as Organ Drops. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, there are many rare alchemy ingredients that logically ought to be relatively common. For example, you'd think you could get human flesh and human hearts from every enemy you kill, but they're some of the rarest ingredients in the game, and are never looted from human enemies. Contrast Dremora hearts, which are looted from every Dremora you kill. Giants toes are a great example. You would think you could get ten from every giant you kill, you are lucky if you get one. Only two samples of Spiced Beef can be found in the game; this item cannot be crafted using the cooking mechanic despite both beef and spices being commonplace.
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Commonplace Rare / int_9d80bbcf	comment	You can find a single shovel in Pathfinder: Kingmaker and it's not even in a shop, but in the wilderness of the Stolen Lands. Most players will disregard the shovel and sell it, while it can be used in the last chapter to dig up a unique magical item.
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_9d80bbcf
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Commonplace Rare / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver, a road is blocked by a 'tree' (actually a PokÃ©mon, Sudowoodo), so nobody can pass there. You have to defeat the (difficult) Gym Leader in order to acquire an item that will allow you to remove said tree: the Squirtbottle, a Squirtle-shaped watering can. (Sudowoodo is actually Rock-type, making it weak to water.) Introduced in the same game: Charcoal. While this game allows you to buy an endless number of them, future games (and even the remakes) don't and give you a single piece of Charcoal per game. Fishing Rods, which are only available by finding three specific expert fishermen on your journey; in Black and White and Black 2 and White 2, you don't get any rod until post-game. In PokÃ©mon Red and Blue, a bicycle costs 1 million Pokedollars (you can only have up to 999,999), but a short while later in Vermillion City, you can get a free bike voucher that allows you to get the bike. Soft drinks probably qualify for this, since apparently only one town per region (except Unova) has vending machines. In Sun & Moon the currency for Hyper Training (which powers up PokÃ©mon's base stats to max) is bottle caps. Subsequently, they are very rare items that you can only find through sending your PokÃ©mon on cave expeditions for treasure or trading shards (previously established to be parts of the items that power up Arceus) for them or, very rarely, by fishing them up. No, you can't get them by simply buying drinks, that would make too much sense. Certain Com Mons are, ironically, like this. Especially ones that were easy to find in the wild in one generation, but aren't in the next. Your best bet might be to find it on the Global Trade Station, but this can be compounded by several factors: If the evolved form isn't used much in competitive battling, this means that most people won't go out of their way to breed for them, meaning that people aren't likely to put any extras on the Global Trade Station. Due to people thinking that no one would want this creature, the Com Mon in question actually becomes difficult to acquire. Berries are easy to find in Hoenn, Sinnoh and Alola. In every other region, they are only given by a select number of NPCs and they often only give you the most common ones. Feebas when it was introduced in the Hoenn games. It is an ugly fish with stats and movepool that puts it firmly on par with Magikarp (with a very powerful evolution to match but still, very underwhelming on its own). Unlike Magikarp, which can be found pretty much everywhere where there's fresh water, Feebas is ludicrously hard to find. Only one trainer (who's off the main road) has one in the whole game, so it's likely you'll play through the whole main storyline without even knowing it exists. And the way to get it is not only convoluted and never even hinted at in-game, but unique to the series (it cannot be found by wandering around like most other Pokemon, you have to find a handful of specific floor tiles where it shows up). And the worst part? If you actually manage to catch one, its Pokedex flavor text specifically mentions that it is common and frequently ignored by trainers, both invoking this trope and inadvertently mocking the person that just spent hours trying to catch it. Eventually, this was fixed in later generations, with Feebas just being somewhat uncommon.
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Commonplace Rare / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	After leveling your character up to level 45 or higher, you and a group of 4 other like-minded adventurers (you'll die if you try to do it alone) can go on a dangerous quest deep inside Zul'Farrak to obtain the electric scale of a giant hydra named after Godzilla. To simply summon this hydra, at least one of your group must go to another continent, then battle his way through hordes of troll cultists to obtain a sacred mallet, then battle his way through even MORE hordes of trolls to bless this mallet at a very special altar. AND all those trolls used to be elite, that is extremely powerful for their level (thankfully, they changed that in a later patch). Your ultimate reward? A carrot on a stick. In the game it actually was rare and highly sought-after for a while because it was one of very few ways to make a mount go faster, but the mundaneness of the item itself made the whole quest chain absurd. The absurdity was only compounded by the item being usable with any mount, include carnivores.
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Commonplace Rare / int_a2c37f38	comment	Though not rare per se, it takes a lot more effort to find a human bone in the catacombs in Planescape: Torment than it really should. The catacombs are being picked over by both human scavengers who are looting corpses to sell them to the Dustmen and by monsters that are eating said corpses.
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Commonplace Rare / int_a81325d3	comment	Throughout Final Fantasy and, subsequently, Kingdom Hearts, among the most epic of all equipment accessories is... a ribbon. A ribbon that protects you from pretty much all status effects, to be fair, but normal ribbons apparently just don't exist.
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Commonplace Rare / int_a825da3e	comment	Two examples from Magic: The Gathering, one in-universe and one real: The most powerful card in the game, capable of enabling a win before the other player gets a turn, banned in nearly every format, regularly selling for the price of an entire college education, represents nothing more than a simple lotus. Oubliette is a common card, and thus legal in Pauper, an all common format, where it is something of a staple. Unfortunately, it's a common from Arabian Nights, the second ever expansion, back when Wizards of the Coast vastly underestimated the game's popularity, so there are very few copies in print. To compound the issue, before a recent templating breakthrough, the official updated text was too long to fit on an actual card, so it couldn't be reprinted. The result was a mere common selling for $20 or more, more than many of the best rares in Standard and most mythics.
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Commonplace Rare / int_a891919e	comment	My Master Ed, Vanâ€™s fascinated by the luxury things Edward creates, including glass dishes, a large mirror, and ice. Edward, being from a time and place were such items are common and able to make them all himself easily, doesnâ€™t think anything of it.
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Commonplace Rare / int_aad9b544	comment	The world of Maj'Eyal is apparently chock-full of artificers, master craftsmen, etc, seeing as mundane items are quite a bit rarer than items with special powers. Normally, you wouldn't want a plain item anyway, as the "egoed" items are strictly better, except that gems can be taken to master jewelers to imbue mundane rings with special powers (one artifact, the Lifebinding Emerald, is totally useless without a voratun ring to set it in, unless you're playing one of the two classes in the game that can use it directly), and a pair of artifacts can transform plain weapons and armor into powerful "crystalline" versions of themselves. Especially painful for dagger users: The Crystalline Voratun Dagger is one of only three top-tier artifact daggers in the game, but the "regular" voratun dagger you need to make it is harder to find than most artifacts.
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Commonplace Rare / int_ac99281e	comment	Ocean's Heart parodies this trope when talking to the Shady Pot Salesman, who sells various crockery (though not to the player); Tilia asks if he sells empty bottles with which to carry water or bugs, but he claims in astonishment that "a bottle would have to be magic to use it like that!" Thankfully not relevant to the actual gameplay, since all items are stored as is in your inventory, and liquid potions that you buy or craft automatically produce bottles to hold them in.
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Commonplace Rare / int_ad34ca69	comment	In Final Fantasy Tactics A2, ribbons are stated in one of the quests to be made from pieces harvested from a species of malboro that is specifically bred to make those ribbons... so the low amount of materials is understandable.
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Commonplace Rare / int_afd530db	comment	In King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, you need an old boot to throw at a cat so that its prey will give you vital assistance later on. This otherwise useless object can only be found in the middle of a Thirsty Desert.
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Commonplace Rare / int_b11626d	comment	Paper Mario: The Origami King: To complete the Chain of Deals at Shogun Studios, you need a baseball and a straw, both of which would be easy to find in real life, which you can only get in this area. Even though there's a sports park and numerous cafes that you come across earlier.
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Commonplace Rare / int_b5a2b326	comment	In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, there is only one muffin on the entire island of Vvardenfell. And it already belongs to someone, so the only way to obtain it is to steal the delicious baked good. And if you eat said muffin, it gives you the exact same stamina regeneration as a normal, common piece of bread.
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Commonplace Rare / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur ends up crash-landing on a primitive planet. He at first thinks he can share some technological wonders with them... only to realize he has no clue how modern technology actually works, at least not well enough to build a working example. When he settles down one day and makes himself a sandwich, however, the village is awestruck. He becomes the village's first official Sandwich Maker, a highly respected position.
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Commonplace Rare / int_bca72091	comment	Appears with most of the mid-to-high tier items in Animal Crossing. Items of the highest rarity level can be reliably earned at the game's special events. But the items just below that level can't be found at special events and only appear as very rare common items. As a result it is far, far easier to, say, earn the king and queen of the chess set than it is to earn the rook or bishop.
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AnimalCrossing	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_bca72091
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Commonplace Rare / int_beac6ffb	comment	A similarly-appearing character in need of paper appears in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. And you can give him a love letter too, except the love letter here should actually be used to start another sidequest. As an alternative, a Title Deed can be given as well, but it too has another intended purpose. Time Travel solves the dilemma.
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Commonplace Rare / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger has jerky, which appears twice in the game. The first time it is used is as a minor plot advancement point. The second time it is part of a Chain of Deals for getting some optional equipment in one of the zany sidequests. About 2 minutes into the game you can find the shopkeeper selling it, for 9900 gold. A trifling price when you will need it (much later in the game), but at the beginning it seems insanely overpriced. Bizarrely, you can also resell the Jerky for 10,000 gold to the person you're supposed to give it to. However, to advance the plot, you have to give them the Jerky for free.
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Commonplace Rare / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: The (in)famous hats, which are the most demanded and valuable items in the whole game despite not having practical use besides looking cool. How rare are they? With the current item-drop system, there's a minuscule chance (1 in 128, possibly even lower) that you might get one after 15 mins. to 2 hrs of play, but most of time you'll get a random weapon. However, there's a weekly cap for dropped items, (roughly 7 - 12 per week) after which you'll not get new items until next week. You can also use the crafting system in order to get one, but it takes from 54 (to craft a random one) to 75 weapons (to get a class-specific one) in order to do so, which translates into several months worth of game-play. This becomes particularly silly with a Sniper cosmetic called Ritzy Rick's Hair Fixative. All of the above noted effort for a cosmetic item, except this one consists of the sniper taking off his iconic slouch hat and going around bareheaded. Something he already does as part of his melee taunt, it's worth noting.
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Commonplace Rare / int_c19c6efa	comment	Minecraft: Apples were so rare that, without hacking or using mods to get apples, the only legit way to get an Apple was to kill Notch if you met him on a server. It wasn't until the Beta 1.8 patch that added strongholds with chests that have a chance of carrying an Apple or more. Since the full game was released, apples have a 1/125 chance of falling from destroyed oak leaf blocks. Clay was also rather rare in the earlier days of the game, only available on coastal areas. Make a boat and get to searchin'. One version had a bug that only allowed clay to spawn at coordinates where x=z (effectively a single diagonal line through the world). Cookies were rare for a long time, to the point that they became a sort of trophy. This changed once Cocoa Beans became farmable and could be easily found in jungle biomes, instead of just in dungeon chests. Likewise, Brown Dye (and its assorted dyed items like Wool and Glass) is frustratingly hard to get ahold of because you can ONLY make them from Cocoa Beans, which spawn in the rare Jungle Biomes. Brown Wool is at least a little easier to get as Brown Sheep spawn vaguely frequently, but it's still a pain in the backside if you just want a brown bed without the use of Creative or commands. Making a cake is a highly elaborate process: you must build a furnace and a stone or better pickaxe, find nine iron ore, smelt them into nine iron ingots, make three buckets, milk cows, grow or find wheat, gather sugar cane and make it into sugar, and find an egg laid by a chicken, then put them all together. That said, once you get to the point that you can produce one cake, it becomes fairly easy to make more. Carrots and potatoes are also pretty hard to get ahold of: you can only find them growing in NPC villages (which themselves are rather rare) or as a Rare Drop from zombies. Again, once you get one, it's relatively easy to get more—just plant it on a farm; since the yield for planting them will, more often than not, be greater than the input, after a while you'll have a surplus. Name Tags, the only legit way to give any mob a unique name outside of creative mode, can only be found inside chests located within a dungeon or by fishing. Pumpkins can be this on the Xbox 360 version of the game, since it's a finite space rather than the PC's nigh-unlimited world. If a cluster of pumpkins—usually around four or five at best—spawns, you will have to search far and wide to locate them. They end up being more rare than diamond ore. And even in the PC game, wild pumpkins can sometimes be hard to come by. Same with Melons, which, like Cocoa Beans, only spawn in the Jungle biomes. Sponges can only be found deep underwater, in rare "ocean monument" dungeons filled with aggressive laser-shooting fish. They're the main reward for killing one of the Elder Guardians in these structures. Saddles clearly should be craftable from leather, which is easy to collect from cows, but for some reason you cannot do thisnote Well, you could craft Horse Saddles with Leather and Iron, but they were removed in favour of just allowing uncraftable normal Saddles to make horses ridable. Instead, you have to track down a Leatherworker villager (not found in all villages) and trade with them until they offer a saddle. Occasionally, you can get one while fishing or in randomly-generated overworld chests. Seemingly the only purpose of this is to make horseback-riding a Luck-Based Mission (never mind finding the horse itself). Of course in normal gameplay this is generally fine if you don't mind cheating, as you could always switch to Creative mode via console commands and take whatever of the above you need from the Creative menu, then hop back into Survival. Disabled cheats or playing on Hardcore, however? Good luck.
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Commonplace Rare / int_c1d7d83f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing: Many kinds of fruits suitable for cooking and cocktailcrafting can be bought from NPCs for 70 meat, but others like cherries, limes, and jumbo olives can only be found as loot on monsters, so they go for roughly 1000 meat at player-run stores. Bananas are limited-edition fruits that sell for around 40,000 meat per bunch. However, this is nothing compared to beets, which were discontinued so long ago and dropped so infrequently that they can't be bought for less than 180,000,000 meat, despite being completely useless note Its description says "...a beet cannot be beaten. Or beeten." They left out "Or eaten." Yep, the most valuable food in the Kingdom isn't actually food. Pickling supplies (dill, brine, vinegar, and ghost cucumbers) are quite rare, as the area where they drop only appears for a single day at a time,usually on April 1st. The factory has only appeared 10 times since June of 2004. Holiday monsters also create some common-rares; Thanksgiving foods (tofurkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce) can only be acquired once every 3 months, and each player only gets to collect a few of them. The Tiny Plastic Sword is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. It's used to make quality drinks with relatively little investment. They are sold at the mall for 75,000,000 meat, largely for the same reasons used wrapping paper is expensive. For reference on what these prices are to people who don't know the relative value of money in Kingdom of Loathing, the Mr. Accessory item (Which players recieve for each $10 they donate), sells for ~30,000,000 as of this edit (The price fluctuates depending on what goodies you can exchange them for). That's right, tiny plastic swords are worth a little bit more than $20, and beets are worth over $60. There is also Hell Ramen, a food whose joke is that Ramen is so cheap, you gain money by eating it. Except it is very good food, giving nice amounts of substats and adventures for a basic pasta, so it goes for a few thousand meat in the mall. Used wrapping paper (which can be crafted into equally-rare weaponry or used to make gifts with nothing in them) costs 395 million meat—that is, over $130 of real-life money, or many months of meat farming. It was only available from gifts in a Christmas giveaway back in 2003 (more common gifts from later on don't produce the paper item when opened), only a few were generated because there weren't many players at the time, and most of them have been lost over the years due to account deletion. Present bows aren't quite as a severe example as used wrapping paper since they cost 5 million meat (as of the time of this writing), but they're still fairly rare since they can only be obtained from small Christmas presents from Christmas 2004 or from winning some of the Penguin Mafia raffles held during early 2008. Delicious Salad was only available from the "Spectral Salad Factory," a meta-joke zone that appeared on April Fool's Day in 2008 and vanished forever the next day. Other types of salad are common, but only the Delicious ones can give you the collectible salad tattoo, so it was an overvalued item for a long time. This finally ended in 2015 when the "Deck of Every Card" included a means of generating salads.
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Commonplace Rare / int_c937f31c	comment	Partially averted in Elvira II: Jaws of Cerberus. Some of the spells have very broadly defined ingredients—"combustible substances", "metal items", "anything edible"—and finding these is as easy as you'd expect in the real world (in both the studio and the "haunted house" set, most of rooms allow you to pick up tons of items; e.g. the kitchen allows you to ransack the cupboards and drawers and put every single tiny can, pot and piece of cutlery into your inventory).
Commonplace Rare / int_c937f31c	featureApplicability	-1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_c937f31c	featureConfidence	1.0
Elvira (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_c937f31c
Commonplace Rare / int_d0599129	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d0599129	comment	The same 'dye is inordinately expensive' paradigm holds true in Ragnarok Online, where the only way to obtain it is to get a Mad Scientist to create the base materials, then colour them with patently absurd numbers of herbs. Players, naturally, go through the whole rigmarole in order to obtain nice hats.
Commonplace Rare / int_d0599129	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_d0599129	featureConfidence	1.0
Ragnarok Online (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d0599129
Commonplace Rare / int_d212a05e	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d212a05e	comment	Guns in Resonance of Fate are like this. One can only wonder where all the hordes of bandits in the Random Encounters get their guns from, when only two handguns are for sale in the entire game, both at exorbitant prices. And yes, that means two individual guns, not two types of guns. Naturally, the hordes of bandits never drop their weapons when they die either. One NPC implies bandit guns tend to be cheap, mass-produced pieces of crap. Professional mercenaries like the player characters are better served with their expensive, reliable firearms than risking a knockoff exploding in their hand. But then most of the dozens of expansion parts you end up attaching to said weapons are crafted from random junk dropped by enemies anyway.
Commonplace Rare / int_d212a05e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Resonance of Fate (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d212a05e
Commonplace Rare / int_d502170c	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d502170c	comment	In Sun & Moon the currency for Hyper Training (which powers up PokÃ©mon's base stats to max) is bottle caps. Subsequently, they are very rare items that you can only find through sending your PokÃ©mon on cave expeditions for treasure or trading shards (previously established to be parts of the items that power up Arceus) for them or, very rarely, by fishing them up. No, you can't get them by simply buying drinks, that would make too much sense.
Commonplace Rare / int_d502170c	featureApplicability	1.0
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PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d502170c
Commonplace Rare / int_d5ae7c20	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d5ae7c20	comment	Going back further in the series, in Ultima IV mandrake and nightshade cannot be bought, and can only be harvested in one place each in the entire world, during one particular lunar phase.
Commonplace Rare / int_d5ae7c20	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_d5ae7c20	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d5ae7c20
Commonplace Rare / int_d5c30232	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d5c30232	comment	Tibia: Cockroach legs. Once a part of a combat tutorial, now unobtainable. What's worse is they're consumed in one of obscure quests.
Commonplace Rare / int_d5c30232	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_d5c30232	featureConfidence	1.0
Tibia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d5c30232
Commonplace Rare / int_d62bbf7a	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d62bbf7a	comment	In Assassin's Creed II, enemies use the same weapons that you can buy for large amounts of money from a shop. Pretty generic example, except- you can pick up the weapons. But you can't keep them of course, if you try to switch weapons, it just drops the thing. You will also find that to carry more throwing knives or phials of medicine/poison you will need to buy pouches. These can cost 6,000 florins, more that it costs to buy finely crafted weapons or armor, and can even outprice the extensive repair and refurbishment performed on the buildings around your villa. It's kept in the Crafting sections of the sequels. Somehow, it takes two humpback whaleskins to make a pistol holster, and only great white shark bones can be used for the final armor upgrade. This is averted in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Revelations: If Ezio has somehow divested himself of his primary weapon and collects a weapon from the ground, he can keep it. If it was a type of weapon he didn't have beforehand, it is added to his inventory. Meaning that yes, Ezio can acquire expensive weapons via taking them off the cold, dead hands of his enemies. This gets a bit ridiculous in the 4th game with the crafting system. Not only does nobody in the game world apparently sell leather goods, Kenway refuses to use the same plan twice. So for no apparent reason he crafts every one of his pistol holsters out of different, increasingly absurd materials.
Commonplace Rare / int_d62bbf7a	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d62bbf7a
Commonplace Rare / int_d6e2146d	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d6e2146d	comment	In Diablo III, most of the item drops will be at least of Magical (Blue) quality. Ironically, this means that the non-magical weapons (White) are the rarest item drops, especially since you're guaranteed to get some Unique items from bosses and quests.
Commonplace Rare / int_d6e2146d	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_d6e2146d	featureConfidence	1.0
Diablo III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d6e2146d
Commonplace Rare / int_d867a721	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d867a721	comment	In HyperRogue, one of the treasures you can collect is a bottle of wine. Which is worth the same as any other treasure - precious gems, Spice, Elixir of Life, and flowers from the shores of Hell itself. The description Hand Waves this with "wine grown under a hyperbolic sun would be extremely prized in your home location".
Commonplace Rare / int_d867a721	featureApplicability	1.0
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HyperRogue (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d867a721
Commonplace Rare / int_d880e828	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d880e828	comment	The 650 gold Bottle in Defense of the Ancients, which is 200 gold more expensive than a Robe of the Magi. It's just a bottle. It holds water from the healing fountain. A healing potion costs 115 and comes as a similar vial plus contents. Not to mention the very precious Cheese, which fully heals you and is the hardest item in the game to acquire (requiring 3 Roshan kills) whereas the Aegis of the Immortal which resurrects the wielder requires one Roshan kill.
Commonplace Rare / int_d880e828	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_d880e828	featureConfidence	1.0
Defense of the Ancients (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d880e828
Commonplace Rare / int_d9b2f1eb	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_d9b2f1eb	comment	In Maniac Mansion and its sequel, Day of the Tentacle, nothing physically prevents you from leaving the Edison Mansion, which causes some Fridge Logic when considering the ludicrous lengths you have to go through to get commonplace objects such as an envelope and stamps (in the first game) or a bottle of vinegar (in the second). Possibly justified in that both games are set at night, and the mansion is in the middle of nowhere, possibly hours away from the nearest shop.
Commonplace Rare / int_d9b2f1eb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Maniac Mansion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_d9b2f1eb
Commonplace Rare / int_dbdd3424	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_dbdd3424	comment	Phantom Doctrine: The US M-16 rifle is a common gun in real life, but is very rare in game, and people have reported finishing the game without finding one in loot. If you buy one on the black market, it is a mid-tier rifle at a mid-tier price.
Commonplace Rare / int_dbdd3424	featureApplicability	1.0
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Phantom Doctrine (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_dbdd3424
Commonplace Rare / int_dc72c82f	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_dc72c82f	comment	During the Christmas season in Fallen London, you can collect a pail of snow...but only once per week for about a month. The only other ways to get more pails of snow are from two specific Mr Sacks cards that can each only be played once or from the Urchins for an exorbitant cost of 7 Storm-Threnodies and 1 Night-Whisper. Granted, the collected snow is definitely not your garden-variety snow (dipping a soul in it causes it to explode, for one thing) and is essential to get lodgings and items that canâ€™t be obtained anywhere else, but it doesn't change the oddity of homeless children selling buckets of a substance that you should be able to easily scoop up from the ground at a price that even players with maxed-out stats and gear will struggle to pay regularly.
Commonplace Rare / int_dc72c82f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fallen London (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_dc72c82f
Commonplace Rare / int_dfabfce5	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_dfabfce5	comment	Red Dead Redemption 2 suffers badly from this trope. Animal Fat, an important crafting ingredient, must be harvested from animals, it can't be purchased from butchers. Similarly, hides of domestic animals are only available by killing and skinning the animal in question, which requires robbing a farm and losing honor. You can't buy the skins anywhere. Finally, the camp request items are thoroughly mundane (things like a harmonica or a cheap novel), but must be found as loot and again can't be purchased from stores.
Commonplace Rare / int_dfabfce5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Red Dead Redemption II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_dfabfce5
Commonplace Rare / int_e5c93c13	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_e5c93c13	comment	Miitopia: Some event-only and therefore very rare grubs can seem a little ridiculous. The more striking is the rarissime... Frozen TV Dinner. Non-event grub all comes in "common", "rare", and "very rare" varieties, which are appropriately powerful. Most of them are also appropriately easy to acquire, with the notable exception of the Ultimate Delicacy — the rare and very rare varieties can easily be farmed from the Final Boss and Optional Bosses, while the common variety can only be acquired from the rare Replica Dark Lord enemy.
Commonplace Rare / int_e5c93c13	featureApplicability	1.0
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Miitopia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_e5c93c13
Commonplace Rare / int_e5d59ed1	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_e5d59ed1	comment	In DayZ: Backpacks are considered extremely valuable because they allow you to carry much more equipment with you. While this is certainly a realistic benefit of a backpack in a survival scavenging scenario, the rarity of backpacks (especially in the original mod version) is pretty inexplicable. While backpacks are certainly handy to have, the odds that department stores would be stripped clean of backpacks following a societal collapse are very low, as people that are evacuating don't tend to ransack stores for backpacks. This is resolved somewhat in the Standalone version of the game where backpacks are more common (and can be crafted from basic materials), but you're still likely to be targeted and killed by other players just so they can upgrade their carrying capacity. Ghillie suits are another one, especially in the original mod, to the point that people will hunt you down just to get your ghillie suit because of how effectively you can hide while wearing one. Again, a ghillie suit would certainly be useful in a scenario where you're trying to remain hidden most of the time, but a ghillie suit isn't that hard to produce, and an effective one can be created from fairly basic components. This is actually addressed in the standalone version, where players can craft ghillie suits from burlap strips, which aren't that hard to find.
Commonplace Rare / int_e5d59ed1	featureApplicability	1.0
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DayZ (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_e5d59ed1
Commonplace Rare / int_e6267766	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_e6267766	comment	In Star Wars Legends, it's stated that hot chocolate is considered an exotic beverage, and Luke buys packets whenever he can. It is of course a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, so for them to have any food/drink/etc that we have on Earth is a small miracle. "Chocolate" could indeed be exceedingly rare in an alien galaxy.
Commonplace Rare / int_e6267766	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_e6267766	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars Legends (Franchise)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_e6267766
Commonplace Rare / int_e9c7b01b	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_e9c7b01b	comment	A couple of the forging items in Dissidia Final Fantasy. For example, you won't even be able to acquire any variety of wood until after you've beaten Chaos - which involves defeating ten characters' personal stories, plus four additional stages of battle (all of which have five substages). Even then, one slab of regular lumber is apparently more common than a splinter (and explicitly costs less to trade for).
Commonplace Rare / int_e9c7b01b	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_e9c7b01b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dissidia Final Fantasy (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_e9c7b01b
Commonplace Rare / int_f186f924	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: Hunting the harmless animals that populate the game world is harder in some ways than hunting vicious machines. The location of machine herds is marked on the map; animals must be searched for manually and can move a lot farther than machines will. Animals will flee if the player character does anything loud, including running- startled geese in particular will flat-out disappear from the game after a few seconds of flying upward- but nearly all machines will seek you out. There are less animals than there are machines, and they're so small that attacks don't always connect. You can buy most machine parts from merchants, but not animal parts for some reason. And animal meat is a necessary ingredient in all healing potions, and in upgrading your inventory capacity, so you will never have as much of it as you want to use. Blaze and Wire are dropped by practically every machine, and are of negligible use...in the early game. A late-game player will have access to bombs and specialist arrows that consume a lot of those components. Better hope you didn't sell all your stocks!
Commonplace Rare / int_f186f924	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_f186f924	featureConfidence	1.0
Horizon Zero Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_f186f924
Commonplace Rare / int_f367511c	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_f367511c	comment	Real Life gaming example: Yu-Gi-Oh!, aside from the regular rarities, actually has two "Short Print" varieties of the Common rarity cards; they look, act, and essentially are exactly like regular Commons, but you'll be busting your butt and your wallet going through hundreds of packs just to get one.
Commonplace Rare / int_f367511c	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_f367511c	featureConfidence	1.0
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_f367511c
Commonplace Rare / int_f4a04cd2	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_f4a04cd2	comment	Resident Evil 3: Nemesis has you go through the entire police station to find a lock pick, which is made from a safety pin and a bent piece of wire. Realistically Jill could have fashioned a replacement with the office items found in every desk ever, such as the one in the main lobby or the 15 or so she passed on her way to the S.T.A.R.S. office, but here that's the only safety pin on the planet.
Commonplace Rare / int_f4a04cd2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_f4a04cd2
Commonplace Rare / int_f891a20d	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_f891a20d	comment	Terraria: Some of the rare drops from enemies fall into this. It makes sense why things like a poison cure-all or a wand of teleportation would be incredibly rare. A can of armor polish, a bandage, or a simple blindfold? Not so much. All three items are 1% drops from very specific enemies, all of which only appear in certain times or places. It's entirely possible for a player to spend actual hours farming enemies for these items (you'd think a player in possession of some fabric, an easy-to-make resource, could just make a blindfold).
Commonplace Rare / int_f891a20d	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_f891a20d	featureConfidence	1.0
Terraria (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_f891a20d
Commonplace Rare / int_f8bd2d94	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_f8bd2d94	comment	In the Wild ARMs games, apples are the permanent stat boosting items. This actually makes sense: the setting of the series, Filgaea, is portrayed as a wasteland planet slowly dying. Naturally, produce of any kind would be extremely scarce given the circumstances.
Commonplace Rare / int_f8bd2d94	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_f8bd2d94	featureConfidence	1.0
Wild ARMs (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_f8bd2d94
Commonplace Rare / int_f8db705d	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_f8db705d	comment	Poop in NGU IDLE, which is used to boost Yggdrasill plants for useful effects, can only be gotten by either an extremely rare drop, or by buying it with premium currency Arbitrary Points. You'd think it'd be way easier to find the waste product of most animals on earth, but apparently not.
Commonplace Rare / int_f8db705d	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_f8db705d	featureConfidence	1.0
NGU IDLE (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_f8db705d
Commonplace Rare / int_fa1efd14	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_fa1efd14	comment	Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards: You need a rope to tie yourself to a railing in order to get some pills. It turns out you can't just buy that rope but have to shower a sleazy girl in a disco with lots of gifts, pick her up, marry her, order some wine to your suite, let her tie you to the bed, and after she's robbed you blind and vanished for good, you can cut the rope with a pocket knife you received elsewhere for another bottle of wine.
Commonplace Rare / int_fa1efd14	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_fa1efd14	featureConfidence	1.0
Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_fa1efd14
Commonplace Rare / int_fd350996	type	Commonplace Rare
Commonplace Rare / int_fd350996	comment	In Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle, one of the common reagents you use for spellcasting is mandrake, and indeed it can be found and bought in plenty of places. Later in the game, an NPC gives you the task to obtain mandrake. For some reason, only mandrake from one specific location qualifies, all the other mandrake doesn't work; and you can't get to that spot yet (semi-justified in that he wants fresh mandrake, and the stuff you can buy is presumably dried: it doesn't make a difference a spell reagent, though).
Commonplace Rare / int_fd350996	featureApplicability	1.0
Commonplace Rare / int_fd350996	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima VII Part II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commonplace Rare / int_fd350996

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