Part 4073

Part 4073 is a round, 1 x 1 piece. It is a very common piece known as a stud. It comes in a large range of colors. While it is very commonly found in different sets, the arguably most well-known fact about this piece is the role it plays in various LEGO video games, which is also what popularised its nickname.
== Appearance In LEGO Games ==
In various LEGO video games (Mostly in games made by Traveler's Tales) Studs (with a capital "S" when referring to the collectible kind) are used as an in-game collectable currency. Studs can be found throughout the in-game worlds and levels and they are used to purchase characters, vehicles, extras and unlock various different other things and items. Additionally, collecting studs throughout a level will gradually fill up a Stud Bar (usually shown at the top of the screen) which, once filled up, will award a special status moniker and usually some other reward, such as a Gold Brick or Minikit.
LEGO video games feature four different types of Studs in solid color, each with different values and rarities depending on their color. It is worth noting that each individual Stud is also considered to be worth a certain number of Studs, in multiples of ten, but there are no Studs worth one single Stud so every number of Studs in-game will always be a multiple of ten.
Type of Stud 	Silver Stud	Gold Stud	Blue Stud	Purple Stud
Image 	 	 	 	
Value (in studs)	10 	100 	1 000 	10 000
Rarity 	Common 	Uncommon 	Rare 	Very Rare
Studs can be found either simply as stationary collectibles at ground level but they can also be obtained as dropped loot by breaking various LEGO objects found in the level(s) and by building LEGO objects out of loose pieces. The higher-value Studs are often found in more hidden or harder to reach areas.
==== Rarity ====
* Silver Studs are very plentiful and found just about everywhere, whether as collectibles or as drops from building and breaking things. 
* Gold Studs are somewhat less common, usually only appearing in smaller amounts and significantly outnumbered by the more common Silver Studs, though still fairly obtainable. 
* Blue Studs are significantly rarer than either of the preceding type, and are usually only encountered in more unusual circumstances, either as hidden treasure in hidden locations, a rare drop from more complicated LEGO builds, a very rare drop from broken objects or as a reward for performing certain more unexpected or unusual actions. It is very rare to encounter more than one Blue Stud at a time, though it is still possible. 
* The Purple Stud, the most valuable type of stud, is extraordinarily rare and is only ever awarded as a reward for very complicated or demanding tasks and is almost always encountered as single Studs, sometimes alongside lower-value Studs but almost never alongside other Purple Studs. If a Purple Stud is ever encountered as a collectible, then it is usually found in hidden locations or very hard to reach areas. In more recent LEGO games, once a player has successfully found another collectible (like a Power Brick or Minikit) in a level, then it will be replaced by a Purple Stud on every subsequent playthrough.
==== Stud (value) multipliers ====
Each individual type of Stud is by default worth as much as stated above, but it is also possible for the player to increase the value of collected studs through the use of Stud multipliers obtainable from Power Bricks. The available multipliers are x2, x4, x6, x8 and x10, and the player can have multiple multipliers active at the same time, in which case they will stack multiplicatively. Having all multipliers active at the same time will yield a total multiplier value of x3840 (2x4x6x8x10 = 3840), making each Stud 3840 times as valuable. At that point, a Silver Stud would be worth 38,400 Studs and a Purple Stud would amount to an immense 38,400,000
==== Maximum Stud count ====
After the completion of a level, all of the Studs that the player collected are added to their total Stud count (a sort of wallet or bank account for Studs if you will), from which they can be used to purchase various different things. Every Stud collected is added to the total Stud count so the number will naturally grow quite large given enough time. In older LEGO games (LEGO Star Wars 1, LEGO Star Wars 2 and Complete Saga, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and LEGO Batman 1) the maximum number of Studs that the player could accumulate in total was four billion of 4.000.000.000. From LEGO Indiana Jones 2 onwards, however, the Stud limit has been drastically increased and does not seem to have an apparent upper limit as players have reported managing to reach 20-30 billion, 400 billion, 1.5 trillion, 1 quadrillion and other extremely high numbers.whats the most biggest number of studs you've collected in any lego game? : legogaming (reddit.com) (Retrieved 31 July 2022)Does anyone know what is the maximum number of studs you can get? - LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues Q&A for Wii - GameFAQs (gamespot.com) (Retrieved 31 July 2022) It is theorized that in the more recent games like LEGO DC: Super Villains, the maximum upper limit for Studs that the player can accumulate might be 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 StudsWhich Lego games have stud limits? : legogaming (reddit.com) (Retrieved 31 July 2022), or about 9,2 quintillion, which is the signed limit for 64-bit integer schemes.
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== See Also ==
* Part 30057 (Same as this piece but in transparent colors)
== References ==
== External links ==
*BrickLink
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