Material Quality

All items in ```The Black Death``` have a quality associated with them, which determines the overall effectiveness of the item. Quality can be thought of as different tiers of maximum durability; the higher an item's quality, the higher its maximum durability. For items that recover stats such as food or medical dressings, a higher quality item will recover more of the stat. On the other hand, equipment such as weapons, armor and tools simply have more durability the higher their quality, allowing them to be used more before breaking.

When crafting, the quality of the product depends on the quality of the ingredients. Specifically, the calculation used is the average durability of all of the ingredients equals the durability (and thus quality) of the product.

Materials (from best to worst):

 * Rare
 * Uncommon
 * Common
 * Awful

Trivia

 * In previous versions, different kinds of items had different quality labels.
 * In previous versions, higher quality tools were more effective at gathering higher quality resources. This is no longer the case.