Question about item attributes

[🎷🐦]

Hello, great game, I love playing it so far, I wanted to know what does the <C> in the name of several items mean? also is there a list of item rarity colours or are the colours picked without rarity or other stats that the item description doesn't specify?

[Kaaven]

I'm pretty sure the colored letters marks Bits - crafting parts you can get if you disassemble the item as a Tinkerer. Those are represented by letters in color-blind mode (set "on" by default). In options menu you can switch that mode off and if you do, the Bits will be marked as a colored dots instead (makes it easier to read).

Items themselves do have a rarity system of sorts, but there is no way to see it in-game.

[🎷🐦]

alright thanks, and how about the <c> or <cc> you see in the names of granades and stuff?

[Mehukannu]

It still marks the bits used to create that item and what bits you can get from it when you dissasemble it. Some items use the same bit multiple times, which is why you will see <cc>.

[🎷🐦]

aaah alright thanks

[Wayward Device]

As to rarity, stuff is basically tiered like this:

Bronze is the worst. Basically the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ type of weapon/armor. It's also worth very little except in bulk.

Iron is second worst. It's better than bronze and pays a little better. Not that great though.

Steel is the first decent tier of material. Both weapons and armor can be ok and sell for a reasonable price, but can be heavy.

Carbide is the first non-medieval material. It's the blue stuff. A carbide weapon of your choice is probably your first early game trading/loot goal. Decent armor if you can find it, but also heavy.

Fullerite is the next tier. A heavy black metal, stuff amde from it is black. And heavy. Really heavy. Basically a +1 from carbide, so +1 AV on armor or a bigger damage die on weapons. Worth a lot.

Crysteel is very rare and awesome. Basically the best metal, it's a crazy advanced science crystal type of deal.

With tech (artifacts), there are basically three tiers with about 10 different basic components. The first tier is what you can make just from the scrap parts you find 95% of the time. Stuff like simple guns like the borderlands revolver, simple gadgets or Mk1 grenades. Needs/is made of stuff like scrap electronics and scrap crystal.

Tier 2 is mid level stuff (obviously). Things like recoilers, carbines and rocket launchers This is where you start to need things like pure alloy and pristine electronics. The components are rarer and you will have to trade a lot if you want to tinker much.

Tier 3 is the best. This is stuff like laser rifles, various energy shields and loads of cool gadgets. You need crazy rare stuff like nanomateriels and metcrystal.

Then there's weird rare stuff like the Helping Hands that doesn't strickly fit into tiers.

[Aquillion]

You forgot Folded Carbide, which is between Carbide and Fullerite in power.

[Wayward Device]

Hmm, I thought that folded was an item addon like sharp or counterweighted. Seems you are right, but you only get folded carbide weapons.

[Mehukannu]

There is two more tiers of materials, ursteel and metametal, that do not appear in game as of yet. So far they are only accessible via wishing and the closest you can get to statwise is to ursteel by having two-handed versions of crysteel weapons. If someone didn't know, two-handed weapons are same as next tier one-handed weapon from the material they are made from. I.E two-handed iron long sword is same statwise as steel long sword.