Rarity

Rarity is an arbitrary property that applies to all items, vehicles, cosmetics, and skins. The feature has no impact on actual gameplay, although it can be reflective of an item's value, usefulness, or acquirement. For Steam Economy items, it also represents how the economy item is acquired, and the amount of crafting materials obtained by scrapping the economy item.

The rarity is typically a prefix to the item's context type. Economy items that were community-made and curated are additionally prefixed to the economy item's context type, but ahead of the rarity.

In-game rarities

When no rarity value is specified in the game code, the item or vehicle will default to common rarity.

Color	Name	Example
#FFFFFF	Common	Canned Beans
#1F871F	Uncommon	Binoculars
#4B64FA	Rare	Eaglefire
#964BFA	Epic	Military Nightvision
#C832FA	Legendary	Forest APC
#FA3219	Mythical	Shadowstalker Mk. II

Steam Economy rarities

In the Steam Economy, the in-game item rarity mechanic is used to represent item quality. Rarities will typically correspond with the item's method of acquirement, with only a few additional named rarities, and a similar tiering system to the in-game rarity mechanic. There are more rarity colors than there are named rarities. These rarities do not have an official name, and are instead often used purely for their color scheme rather than to denote a specific grouping of items. Some unnamed rarities may even use the same color as named rarities.

Color	Name	Example	ID
#FA6419	Achievement	Graduation Cap	9
#FFFFFF	Common	Woodland Maplestrike	1
#1F871F	Uncommon	Fish Tie	2
#4B64FA	Rare	Mosaic Canned Beans	4
#964BFA	Epic	Fez	5
#C832FA	Legendary	Artemis' Compound Bow	6
#FA3219	Mythical	Mythical Holiday Spirit Santa's Sleigh APC	7
#64C819	Premium	Epaulettes	8
#D2BF22	Gold	Gold Katana	3
	n/a	Mystery Box Key	n/a
#FF7F00		Total Kills Counter
#FF0000		Player Kills Counter
#909090		Kill Counter Removal Tool
#00FFFF		Zero Kelvin Weapon Kit
#AA6125		Test's Bronze Eaglefire
#BBBBBB		Test's Silver Maplestrike
#379C9B		fr34kyn01535's RocketMod Shirt
#B2B2B2		HMD
#6441A5		Twitch T-Shirt
#D78B1E		Experienced Beret
#9A3E97		Debugger's Beret
#FFFFFF		White Hat
#FFED00		BattlEye Halo

Trivia:

• Mythical rarity was originally reserved for Steam Economy items with a mythical effect, but has since been introduced for in-game playable content.