Item

An Item is anything in Neopets which can be placed in a users Inventory for use while playing on the website. The term "item" itself is very broad, which can describe non-living things - e.g. food, books, etc - and certain living things - Petpets, Bottled Faeries, plants, etc. Items may be traded, sold, given away or discarded, with the exception of a few special items where this is restricted, such as with Petpets from the newbie-pack, or certain plot items.

The basic Neopian currency - Neopoints - do not exist as physical items, but certain others - Dubloons and Nerkmids - do. The single case where Neopoints do appear in one's inventory is as the item Bag of Broken Neopoints. In this state, they do not serve as a medium of exchange, but can be fixed by Donny - and in doing so removed from the inventory - and become so.

Many users make it a hobby to collect certain items or types of items, and many make a gallery to share them with others. As of July 2007, there are 21,819 different items in Neopets (not including unannounced, replaced, or 1-Player Challenger items).

Item categories

There are many different types of items in Neopets, all of which have different uses and purposes. Below are all the current categories items fall under as of February 2007:

Altador Cup Tournament Altadorian Armour Altadorian Food Altadorian Magic Altadorian Petpet Aquatic Food Aquatic Petpet Baked Battle Magic Book Booktastic Book Brightvale Armour Brightvale Books Brightvale Fruit Brightvale Motes Brightvale Potions Brightvale Scroll Brightvale Windows Broken Toy Candy Clothes Coffee Collectable Card Collectable Coin Darigan Toy Defence Magic Desert Food Desert Petpet Desert Pottery Desert Scroll Desert Weapon Exotic Foods Faerie Book Faerie Food Faerie Furniture

Faerie Petpet Faerie Weapon Fanciful Fauna Food Furniture Gardening Geraptiku Petpet Gift Grooming Gross Food Haunted Weaponry Healthy Food Hot Dog Ice Crystal Instrument Island Merchandise Jelly Food Kiko Lake Carpentry Kiko Lake Food Kreludan Food Kreludan Furniture Magic Item Maractite Weaponry Maraquan Petpet Medical Cures Medicine Medieval Food Medieval Petpet Meridell Potion Mystic Mushroom Neovian Antiques Neovian Attire Neovian Pastries Neovian Press Petpet

Petpet Supplies Petpetpet Pirate Petpet Pizza Plushies Qasalan Food Qasalan Tablets Qasalan Weaponry Remarkable Restoratives Robot Petpet Roo Island Merchandise School Sea Shells Slushie Smoothie Snow Food Space Battle Space Defence Space Food Special Spooky Food Spooky Furniture Spooky Petpet Stamp Toy Trading Card Tropical Food Tyrannian Food Tyrannian Furniture Tyrannian Petpet Tyrannian Weaponry Usuki Doll Utility Fish Wintery Petpet Wonderous Weaponry

Item rarity

Item Rarity - not to be confused with Rare Item Codes - is a relative scale of showing how rare an item is. An item is rare if they are harder to get than other items. Usually this will also mean they are more expensive. Whenever you see an items rarity it will be listed as a number. These numbers have the following meanings. All items with rarity over 70 show an inventory tag when seen in a user's inventory, helping users identify rare items faster.

• 1-70 - Common, easily found in main Neopian shops and given out by random events.
• 71-84 - Rare
• 85-90 - Very Rare
• 91-95 - Ultra Rare
• 96-99 - Super Rare
• 100-104 - Mega Rare
• 105-119 - Special, these items cannot be obtained through the normal shops. Normally these are only given out as part of a special offer.
• 120 - This rarity is reserved for Brain Tree Quest prizes.
• 121-179 - Special, as the 105-119 rarity items, but these are more potent.
• 180 - Retired, this item will never again be released and its rarity will never be changed from 180.
• 200 - Artifact, these items are sold in the Hidden Tower.
• 250 - Artifact, these are either retired Hidden Tower items or Cooking Pot items made from two Hidden Tower items.
• 500 - This rarity is reserved for NC Mall items.

If a user feeds their Neopet a food item with a rarity 90-100 it is considered a Gourmet Food and will qualify their Neopet in the Gourmet Club.

Items with a high rarity value may not in fact be rare at all: certain items with high rarities are given out in large quantities, devaluing them, such as with omelettes.

Inventory tags

When seen in the users inventory, some items will be labelled with certain tags after their name, which signify difference between them and other items. They are...

• Special - Items which usually require the user to perform certain actions to obtain. These can include prizes from Dailies, games, Quests, plots, Rare Item Codes, special shops, Treasure Map pieces, World Challenge pieces, the Cooking Pot, the NC Mall, and items which give the user other items when used (such as the cracker).
• Shaking - Exclusive for Codestones, it notes the shaking and instability of the Codestone while the user is holding it.
• Wearable - Signifies the clothing item can be placed in the user's "closet" for Neopets Customisation.

Item status

New items are always being added to Neopets, and the status or creation process of an item is something of interest to many users, who look forward to the newest items or are discovering images or information about them before their release. While there are 21,819 active and noted items which users can acquire as of July 2007, there are many items items whose status in the item database is on hold due to special reasons.

1. An item's name can be found via the sidebar search or the Shop Wizard, which means it is in the item database but does not have an ID yet. Items like this may sometimes be announced in the news before they are officially released. There are 3,258 of these items.
2. The item has not been mentioned in the New Features and all that is known is the item's image URL. There are 203 of these items.
3. An item's image and name is found, but for some reason is never officially released, even when mentioned in the New Features (sometimes considered MIA, after the terminology used on NeoItems.net). There are 188 of these items.
4. Items (usually Battledome Equipment) which is only used by 1-Player Challengers, and can never be acquired by users. There are 202 of these items.
5. An item has been redrawn, renamed, or both, either taking them out of the database or replacing them with a new one. Items such as this are noted for their historical significance, due to the changing style of art or direction in Neopets. There are 93 of these items.

Trivia

• There is a book titled Rare and Retired Items, which is said to reveal "what those hard to get items are all about". However, owning this book or reading it to a Neopet doesn't give a user any new knowledge about items.

External links

• Help File: A Pant Devil stole my items!, Why are my items disappearing?, Help one of my items was turned to sludge!, How do I get a Safety Deposit Box?, How do I see my items?, What do you do with videos?, Can you hold more than 50 items?, Can you get items in NeoQuest that will go into your Inventory on 'Your Items' or are all the items based on staying in the game itself?, What is the difference between donating and discarding an item from your inventory?, I'm on a quest, where can I find my item?, How do I donate an item?, What does rarity mean?
• Selected Fansite: NeoItems.net
• User's Inventory