Animal Jam - How To Get Rare

     Clearly, being rare is an important part of self-worth in Animal Jam. With more rares comes with better status is what most Jammers live up to. Although they are just items on a game, sometimes used for decoration or achievement, many people want rares. These are some steps you can take to help your Jammer self to become rare. 

1. Participate in the Forgotten Desert adventure
Sorry, non-members, I'm afraid only members can access this one. The Forgotten Desert is a perfect way to win cool items, such as Spikes or Headdresses. Recommended that you go in teams of 3 or 4, it takes about 12 minutes to do. Granted, the chances of winning a legitimately rare item is very slim, but with enough attempts, you're bound to get something. 

2. Buy Rare Item Mondays
Let's be real, Rare Item Mondays are not usually rare. In fact, some of them look straight up bizarre! But, if you look at the Rare Headdress or the Rare Gazelle Horns, you'll see that even something you bought can really increase in value in a few years. It's basically holding onto an unpredictable stock; you win some, you lose some. 

3. Buy items going on clearance 
When items like the Straw Hat or Phantom Rug become rare, you know it's something you should do. Random items go rare so make sure to grab ever chance you get by buying random items. 

4. Buy seasonal items
Seasonal items may never come back again. Items like the Heart Ring became very rare after it went out of stores. The rarity of any item is bound to go up unexpectedly, so try your luck by buying some of your items. 

5. Buy items right when they come out
Although this seems like somewhat of a stupid tip, it's not. You never know when AJHQ releases a glitched item, so quickly buy items when they come out. If they are glitched, then you've hit the jackpot. 

6. Trade a lot
Trading seems like an awfully obvious thing to do to get rare. The thing is, you can't just trade for 1-2 hours a day. Nope, you must spend 5-6 hours a day trading. It may seem very tiring and a waste of time (frankly, it can be), but if you just undertraded for something, the only thing you'd feel is euphoria. 

7. Don't trust anyone

Scammers aren't threats if you don't give in their totally credible scams (you seriously have to be pretty stupid to fall for scams these days). Yes, scamming is a way of getting rare, but it's so hard nowadays since nobody falls for scams anymore. 

8. Enter giveaways

Find all the giveaway videos and enter them all. You're bound to win at least one of them. Although this is extremely time-consuming, this isn't a post about how to save time, it's about getting rares. 

It may take around 50-75 hours of playing just to get something small, but as time builds up, you'll get that Long Black Spike Collar for sure.