7 Weirdly Rare Items You Worked Surprisingly Hard For

These commonplace objects were so hard to find in games -- but you still went to bizarre lengths to get them.

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[outsidextra]

These mundane items were weirdly difficult to get hold of. Can you think of any other examples of weirdly rare items you worked weirdly hard for? Shout in the comments if so! -OX

[cysero]

To be fair with Minecraft's cake: If I woke up in an unknown location, with nothing but my clothes, and with no trace of civilization nearby; then getting the ingredients for a cake would be really hard

[Kanchilla]

Much like Europe, Hyrule has a policy where residents actually reycle in excess of 90% of their bottles which is why spare bottles are so rare

[rigelj]

Thank god for you, Ellen. If it weren’t for you, I’d still be convinced Kingdoms of Amalur was a fever dream.

[naomibousson]

Luke mentioning all the different 'easier' ways to squirt water on the Sudowoodo, but somehow forgets the option to just use the water pokémon that you probably have in your pocket.

[gruggerduggerhoose]

Ellen “sorry mate im a little short!!”
Shopkeeper “well of course. You can’t even see over my counter.”
Ellen *angry smol noises

[blacksheep]

Minecraft cake: "To make an apple pie from scratch, it is first necessary to create the universe."

[prejudicedpizza]

Me, apparently the only other person who played KoA, seeing it on the list: Yess, Ellen is back putting it on every list she can.

[themayhemofmadness]

“Like 500 potions. You don’t know that I won’t need them.” Yup. That is exactly how I, too, play Skyrim. LOL

[varunchaturvedi]

4:49 I love the image of a younger Ellen going to school with a Dora the Explorer backpack and wearing that black trenchcoat she mentioned in a stream once.

[Diarmoosen]

I could hear Ellen smiling when she said “extremely underrated” about kingdoms of amalur

[Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Maybe the backpacks in Kingdoms of Amalur are rare because they're made of canvas. According to Bethesda, canvas is a very rare material!

[TheUltimoSniper]

17:22 "in-game turnip stock exchange"
He isn't joking, people.

[absolutelycardboard]

What about Hestu’s gift in breath of the wild. I spent forever looking for the hidden 900 Korok seeds. You’d think you get some kind of weapon, or maybe some armor, but no all you get is a Kin no unko as well as the line of text “A gift of friendship given to you by Hestu. it smells pretty bad.” Well hell yes it smells all I got was a pile of poo. One that I could have gotten, ANYWHERE. Come on.

[RadienOfRaonArashal]

A fair amount of the cooked items from Stardew Valley could probably count, seeing as for some of them, the very recipes are being guarded by NPCs who you have to befriend to up to seven hearts before they'll surrender the secrets of how to make things such as Fish Stew or Stuffing, and sometimes recipes that require only two ingredients that aren't too terribly hard to get, still jealously guarded by the townsfolk who have to be bribed into giving you the means to acquire these recipes that eventually allow you to earn the achievement for having cooked every cooked item.

Every non-marriage candidate, and even two of the candidates each guard recipes at the 3-heart and 7-heart level, forcing you to find out what it is they like, then acquire it before throwing it at them at most twice a week for however long it takes to get them to give the recipe over already, and the game seems to not like the idea of my character just walking up and saying "I know you have the Rice Pudding recipe, Evelyn. Just give it to me and no one has to die."

Bloody humans.

[Blackinght]

The rings in DSII that made weapons invisible, you only needed to... not die... for the entirety of the game, yeah. That’s like half the game mechanics, out the window.

[morgenmontagna]

I love how she warned us about Minecraft spoilers. Like, ”OH NO! NOW I KNOW HOW TO... Make a cake?”

[asteriondeltoro]

The indie text adventure "Curses!" has a wild one. The entire game, which involves the exploration of a posh English mansion, jaunts to several dreamlike realms, time travel, galaxy-brain adventure game puzzles, moon-logic adventure game puzzles, and mastering the setting's not-very-intuitive magic system, is a sprawling quest to find a tourist map of Paris for the family vacation. (This was in the 90s, before GPS was a thing.) The ridiculous part is that the game's intro informs you the protagonist KNOWS he could just buy a new and probably more accurate map once they get to Paris, but he's too pigheaded to admit to the family that he couldn't handle such a simple task.

[Divinedragonblade]

In fairness to the backpack, regular backpacks may be quite common, but backpacks that can carry suits of armor and swords are probably a bit less common.

[PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt]

You'd think with all the murderhoboing you do in Skyrim, human skulls, hearts, and flesh would be super easy to come by.