How to Become Rare on Animal Jam

Adventures (Members/Non-Members)

Do the Forgotten Desert and other adventures. A lot of good rares are usually rewarded from this adventure. This is also the only adventure that actually rewards spiked collars and wristbands themselves (besides the lucky clovers one). However, it isn't that likely that you will get a spike every 10-15 tries, but many people have at least gotten a spike once. However, this is an adventure that only members can play. Spikes, den betas, top hats, clothing betas, neon bows and arrows, and more good items and rares such as these have been rewarded from this adventure. Sometimes you might get store bought items, but it is still worth checking here. Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 9.36.14 AM.png You don't have to complete, or even try the purple shards. They do take a lot of time, and sometimes, you wasted 15 minutes just to get a store bought item from there.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 9.37.21 AM.png

Play the Lucky Clovers adventure whenever March comes. This is the second adventure that also rewards spikes, including a black long collar. Collect all the lucky clovers and claim the keys in order to open the epic chest. Spikes are hidden in the Members chest, while good rare non member items can come from the non member chest and member chest, which includes phantom armor and worn blankets.

Go on Return of the Phantoms hard mode. Play with an arctic wolf in order to have a possible chance of getting two rares at once. Claim the chest in the arctic wolf gate first, then claim the one at the end. Choose either the top right or the top left chests. Those are the ones that usually give rares. Some rares that could be rewarded from this adventure include rare bows and arrows, worn blankets, rare fox hats, rare head feathers, etc. Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 9.40.47 AM.png The arctic wolf gate rewards different rewards per jammer, but at the end, the rewards are the same for everyone.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 9.42.19 AM.png

Use backup accounts to 'play with yourself' in adventures. Make them join the adventure and have your main account play the adventure (move your back up accounts every now and then so they do not get logged out). Have all your back up accounts open the prizes at the end. You can also choose different chests in Return of the Phantoms, or if you already opened a good chest, you can have the others open that one too in order to get several of the same good rare. Use this method in the Forgotten Desert as well - you'd be especially lucky if you got a spiked collar - depending on how many back up accounts you were using, you would automatically have several spikes at once!Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 9.48.37 AM.png

Do Turning the Tide hard mode. This adventure is like the underwater version of The Search for Greely hard mode, since both include freeing an alpha and also include the prizes as phantom and brigade armor. Brigade armor is probably a little more rare, since hardly no one goes under water. Collect the whole set of brigade armor by opening different chests every time you do the adventure. Do the Search for Greely hard mode, and trade your phantom armor for rare fox hats or pirate swords. The same could be done for the brigade armor.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 9.50.18 AM.png

Making Use of Rare Mondays

Be around for Rare Monday items. Rare Mondays are held on each Monday, and they are a time when you can find rare items in stores. There is more information about Rare Mondays in the Daily Explorer. Every Monday, check in every store for a rare item. Only one of the stores has a rare item in it. Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 10.26.18 AM.png Normally, Rare Monday items are sold in the Jam Mart Clothing shop as well as sometimes in Epic Wonders.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 10.28.21 AM.png After you buy the Rare Monday item, the value of the item increases thereafter. This is due to the simple fact that these rares will not come back into the stores. Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 10.31.35 AM.png Buy several of the rare. You never know when it could suddenly become the rarest item in the game, just like the headdresses were suddenly very rare.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 10.34.14 AM.png

Use rare item Mondays as add ons for trades. Once the rare is out of stores, it becomes even rarer. Use rares for add ons and you might get traded some even better rares for them, especially if they're really good rare item mondays.

Trade rares for den betas. Sometimes, rare item mondays are worth den betas. About 2 fox hats are worth 1 den beta. Other rares could also be traded, in which you can then use den betas to trade for even rarer items.

Look out for variants of the rare item mondays. The rare item mondays are not always the rarest. An example could be the rare worn blanket, but even the worst non rare worn is rarer. Buy non rare variants of rare item mondays, just in case they end up becoming rarer. Another example is headdresses. Non rare headdresses are even rarer then the rare one, even though now they all have the rare tag.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 1.30.30 PM.png

Using YouTube

Create a YouTube account if you're okay about making videos, and can possibly handle getting hacked. YouTube is one of the best, most enjoyable ways to spread the word about you. Ask your parent or guardian if it is okay with you having an account before you create it; they'll need to confirm this for you.

Create and upload interesting and unique videos. This will give your channel an identity. Record new updates and find things that are interesting on AJ, such as a new party. Record a video of it, then publish and repeat with other videos, such as tutorials.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 1.33.49 PM.png

Start doing mailtime. Do this once you have a few fans (around 20 to 50). Mailtime is where people send you gifts and you open them up on a YouTube video, as well as give shoutouts to those who sent you gifts. Send gifts back to good gifts, but give autographs or thank you jam a grams back to other gifts. Do not keep all the good gifts you get - people will consider you as greedy if you do not giveaway a lot of your spikes or rares.

Update your other videos often. Be active and interesting - just talking while staring at a screen will not get you any fans. Talk about the new gift cards, new parties, upcoming events, drama, who-hacked-who, and other things like that. Keep it interesting, and don't keep it on one screen at a time.

Keep up your growth. By now you should have a lot of fans. Do mailtime and updates as often as you can. Host lots of giveaways. Stream whenever possible if you have the time, such as once a week or once every few days. When you have a lot of fans, it can get overwhelming.

Trading

Trade for what you want. Trading is the easiest and fastest way you can learn what people want. Learn to trade fairly and get a reputation for being trustworthy. Learn your rares as well to be sure you do not over trade. If someone accepts your under trade, then you are lucky, since you get to keep some of your current rares and get more rare.

Gather as many rare items as possible. Trade smaller items such as rare item Mondays for rare bows and arrows, worn blankets (non rare), rare fox hats, pirate swords, and much more. Place them on your trade list, go to Aldan, and say something like "I accept 1 den beta per item on my trade list!"

Collect about four den betas. Use these den betas to trade for a black short wrist or a bad long wrist. Consider trading your black short wrist for a green long wrist (if you got one). That would be a fair trade, and long wrists are more preferred than short ones.

Repeat two times, and then you should have two spiked wristbands. Two good long spiked wristbands equals one good short collar. Trade them for the short collars before carrying on. Replace the wristbands for better items if you'd like, or just trade 8 den betas for a good short collar. Trade 6 den betas for a bad short collar if you're aiming for something else, and 14 den betas for a black short collar if your going for a good rare. Note: A black short may seem rarer, but it is actually worth an orange long spiked collar.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 1.43.34 PM.png

Repeat this process twice as well. Trade 2 bad shorts for an orange or green long collar and add a den beta to be fair. Save up 2 good shorts (would be worth 16 den betas) and a bad long wrist, and trade them for a good long collar, such as a purple long. Trade for at least 2 bad longs and trade them for good long collars. Aim for 6 bad longs or 3 good longs if you're trying to get a black long collar quickly.

Buy items. Most people forget to do this, but buying items that are going out of stores can be a great way to obtain rares. Check everyday each store, and see if items are going on clearance. You may think that they're worthless, but one day, they might be worth a good rare or as such.Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 1.45.49 PM.png

Entering Giveaways

Enter giveaways. Sometimes, jammers will try to scam, and unfortunately, not always do they get banned. However, some giveaways are actually truthful. If there is a new jammer or an unrare looking person saying "Spike giveaway my den!". They will sometimes have said items on they're trade, but most of the time, they're obviously trying to scam, because they accept trust trades and most likely have friends/a spare to trade them good items to encourage other jammers to trade their good items, resulting in someone eventually being scammed. Usually, the scams are used with spikes and other extremely rare items. Enter small giveaways first, such as rare giveaways (some include worn blankets, nerd glasses, straw hats, etc., giveaways like that). Avoid flash trading and trolls, and do not trust any jammer who is doing the giveaway through flash or trust trading, or gifting. Screen Shot 2016 07 23 at 1.48.11 PM.png

Go to famous jammers streams. Famous jammers usually host giveaways, and they're obviously not scams. Famous jammers could not scam, otherwise they would probably get a lot of hate. Follow the instructions in order to win a giveaway that the famous jammer says, and just maybe you'll get a chance to win, and actually get a good rare item.

Enter giveaways online. Online giveaways on YouTube by not only famous jammers, but even regular animal jam YouTubers are usually trustworthy as well. You might just win and become very rare.