Rare Dating

== Introduction ==
No, you cannot take your rare on a date. However, the process and style of rare manufacturing has changed a lot over the 5 years the server has been around. Similar to how a person can tell what decade a car was manufactured based on the style of the vehicle, you can pinpoint when a rare was made based on the style of the textbox.
== 2016 ==
For the majority of 2016, rares were not mass produced to the level that they are today, and were typically vanilla unbreakable tools or funky blocks with enchantments or purple lore text. Players would usually get rares from minigame events like the maze, or a small handful of rares from holiday events. Rares weren't sought after as much during this period to the level that spawn eggs were. I don't even think the term "rare" had been coined yet. Prior to 2017, players were mostly invested in spawn egg collections and most shops would advertise those. Spawn egg collecting still exists, but is pretty exclusive to OG applecraft players.
Name 	Item	Text Box
Diamond Grass!
Worth 10DB	 	
70 Players! 	 	
Fortune's
Rabbit's Foot	 	
Magic Stick 	 	
Happy New
Year 2016-2017	 	
Scuba Helmet	 	
Smoerni's
Lighter	 	
* Older 2016 rares usually didn't have custom colored text, and no lore text
* Mid 2016 were usually named but not with custom colored text. Usually had lore text
* Late 2016 introduced colored text into names and non-purple lore text.
== 2017 ==
This is the year the server broke away from its spawn egg focus and started making rares for each month instead of being reserved for holidays. However, almost every month still featured at least one or two spawn eggs that could be won through voting. Rares did continue to follow the earlier 2016 rare trend up until mid 2017.
Name 	Item	Text Box
Tinder	 	
Luke's
Lightsaber	 	
Bedrock
Pick	 	
Death's
Scythe	 	
Santa's Magic
Pickaxe	 	
* Early 2017 rares didn't have any bold text that I'm aware of, but had a lot of colored text, but each word would be a single color. No glitch text.
* Mid 2017 rares started being made with bold text and glitch text as well as alternating colored text from letter to letter.
* Late 2017 rares had more color variety than earlier rares typically having more alternating colors per letter than earlier in the year.
== 2018 ==
This is the year the server started breaking away from winning votes directly from voting and had more of a focus on crates. Rare appearances started to become more standardized due to crate themes.
Name 	Item	Text Box
Withered
Heart </3	 	
Druid's
Blessing	 	
End Warp
Token	 	
Axe of Flames	 	
Santa's
Deceased Elf	 	
* Early 2018 rares still followed more of a 2017 theme.
* Mid through Late 2018 rares started introducing special characters to rare names which have become a fairly permanent feature in today's rare manufacturing. Alternating colored text also started having three or more colors instead of the 2017 style of only two alternating colors.
== 2019 ==
This is the year where rare standardization for manufacturing has taken full effect
Name 	Item	Text Box
Bedrock
Pick 	 	
Broken Heart's
Revenge	 	
Beetroot Ramen	 	
* 2019 and onward follows a specific rule-set of framing the textbox for rares by dividing information into specific rows, but through the use of colors and special characters to frame rare title names, it gives each crate or rare a specific flavor that separates them from the others. For example, you can figure out what crate a rare came from not only from the information in the lore text, but from the special characters used in the name.