User blog:Omgblah22/How to get Rare(r)

So I was just scrolling through when I saw a blog from Zeforum about how to get rarer. So I am giving credit where credit is due, and I will say it inspired me. It said it was a draft but it looked like it was forgotten, so I decided to make a new one to help out other jammers.

Step 1: Getting desierable items
You're probably going to groan at this but play adventures. Any adventure truly helps, but especially TFD and Return of the Phantoms Hard Mode. For both of those adventures, though it may take time to get something good you can get good items. Clothing betas are available in both, and in TFD also has den betas, spikes, and neon bows.

You may get quite a few more undesireable items and you may be thinking, but now my inventory is clogged, but don't worry, I will address this in the next step.

Step 2: Getting rid of those undesirable items you have/got in adventures
You have a couple options here: Trading, My Shops, or the classic shops where you display a ton of items in your den and scream 'shop my den'. All of these options work.

Trading:
For all those items you got like fake cb/db, rims, adventure den items you can work to trade those around. For fake cb, I like to trade 2 for a real cb. Its actually under, but lots of people accept. For example: I would trade 2 feather masks for you're worn. Im a couple rims under (but any profit is good profit) and it's easy to restock on those items, as they are pleantiful in adventures. For fake den betas? Alot of times those are worth a clothing beta (or even more) on their own, so simply trade them off for the fair amount. For the rims? You can trade the fair amount for clothing betas or den betas, although you will likely have to trade over. For the rims; I suggest trading them for fake clothing betas and trading those for real clothing betas as mentioned earlier because thats what makes good profit.

My Shops:
The new addition animaljam brought in 2019 does wonders for getting rid of unwanted items without having to work hard to trade them or recycle them for gems. Having a shop and selling things only for diamonds is a great way to make alot of diamonds and clear out that inventory. One of the best things about having a My Shop is people value different items at different worths. For example you may be selling your feather mask for 6 diamonds and you think its fair but someone will think its worth say 10 and think they are getting an amazing deal and buy all of them, this way both parties are happy. For selling rims (not the extremely valuable ones) I think the best general rule random member rims go for 1 diamond, nm rims go for 2, good rims in general (vikings, spartan, elf armor etc) go for 3-5, and really good rims (like rare eyeball hats and rare cupcake hats) you can sell them for 15-20. By selling all of the things you may have a harder time trading you can get all the profit you want and have more space, best of all, selling is easy to repeat.

Other Shops:
In general if you haven't noticed people will often trade more for items in your yard sale then they would if they were out in Aldan. Its easy to just have all your unwanted den items out here and get good trades for them, best of all both non-members and members can do this, although non-members can't put out the member den items.

Step 3: Trading your desireable items
This step is both the easiest and the hardest. This is where you want to trade your clothing betas, den betas, spikes etc. Generally it is the most cost-effective to do this:

Clothing Betas:
Trade these for den betas only. 2 for member, 3 for non member (but if they want less do less). Don't trade 2-3 clothing betas if they are the ones worth one den beta on their own. Only trade for the ones the general community accepts as beta; don't trade for walls/floors, sewing machines, or computers as those are risky and hard to trade away.

Den Betas:
Whilst others may tell you, trade them for smaller spikes and trade those spikes up, its easier, the truth is its more expensive and in fact harder. The only thing you should trade your den betas for are long collars, more specifically green, yellow, pink, purple, and red (black if you have a safe method). By trading for those colors, you make sure you aren't stuck with undesirable colors, because despite those being longs they are still hard to trade away.

Other Spikes:
These should be traded down for den betas, so any wrists or short collars you have, trade down for den betas as I mentioned before it is cheaper. Say you wanted to trade for a pink long. People accept 15-16 den betas OR  3 good short collars. Short collars go for 7-8 den betas, lets say 7.5. If you do the math if you traded the short collars instead of trading 15-16 den betas you would be trading 22.5 den betas which is much more than it is worth. If you have blue/orange longs, you could trade them down for den betas I supposse but, it may be easier to keep them and use them as adds once you get up to trading for higher up items such as beta sets, headdresses, etc.

Other Items:
Trade these for their den beta worth. Nothing else to really be said here.

Step 4: Trading your longs for better things
After you collect a good amount of long collars, you now need to be trading up for more items. Try to undertrade if you can; but avoid the more controversial items. Like the slippers a while back, if you got them when they were expensive, then when they dropped you lost a ton. While investments can be good, for example trading for a beta hood right now, as they can only go up, sometimes its easier to play it safe.

Important things to note:

-Avoid low demand items; it may have a high value, and you may be getting it for super cheap, but it is very hard to trade off and in the end you really just wasted whatever you traded for it.

-Avoid asking for unders, sometimes it may seem like you'll never get a good trade, but just hold out, and you will get that trade eventually, and then you will be glad you waited.

Well there you have it; how to get rare/rarer. I hope this helped, its not perfect by any means but I hope it was at least decent.

~Omgblah