# Linking items Every piece of gear has an **item code**. Use it to show a piece to other players in chat or in a message without typing out its stats. The recipient sees the piece as a chip and can look at the stats. ## The item code An item code is `I-` followed by five characters, for example `I-K7X4M`. Upper and lower case do not matter. The characters 0, O, 1, I and L never appear, so nothing gets mixed up. The code belongs to the individual piece, not to its type. Two Flame Amulets have two different codes. When a piece is salvaged, its code is gone. When a piece is sold on the marketplace, it keeps its code. You find the code in a piece's **detail window**, below the line that says where the piece currently is. ## Linking an item | Where | Button | |---|---| | Detail window of a piece | **Share in chat** or **Copy** | | Equipment and Storage, item sheet | **Share in chat** | | Marketplace, detail column of an offer | **Share in chat** on every offer with a code | **Share in chat** opens the chat and puts the code into the input. Write your text before or after it and send the message. **Copy** puts the code on the clipboard, for example for a message in the mailbox. You can also type or paste the code by hand. That includes codes someone sent you outside the game. ## How the item is shown As soon as the message arrives, the code in the text becomes a **chip**: icon, name and level of the piece in the colour of its rarity. The rest of the message stays plain text. If the piece is currently **on the marketplace**, the chip also shows the marketplace symbol in front of the icon. If the piece no longer exists because it was salvaged, the code simply stays as text. A mistyped code is shown as text as well. ## The preview The chip gives you the stats. - **On desktop:** Hover the chip and the preview appears. Click the chip to keep it open. A click elsewhere or Escape closes it. - **On mobile:** Tap the chip and the preview opens as a window. The preview shows name, rarity, type, level, all stats, the owner and where the piece is: worn by a Mebuli, in storage or on the marketplace. For the marketplace's own stock it says **House offer**. If the piece is on the marketplace, the preview has a **View offer** button. It takes you straight to that offer, even if your filters would currently hide it. That way you can recommend an offer to a friend even though it is not yours. ## Searching an item code in the Compass Type an item code into the **Compass** (Ctrl + F). You can leave out the leading `I-`. - **Your own piece:** The Compass shows it, **Open** takes you to its detail window. This also works while a Mebuli is wearing it. - **Piece on the marketplace:** **View offer** takes you to that offer, no matter who owns it. The Compass does not find pieces of other players that are not on the marketplace. ## Where item links work - Global chat and guild chat - Mailbox, messages between players - Guild mail from the guild leader The same rules apply everywhere. | | Value | |---|---| | Item links per message | at most 2 | | The same piece more than once | not allowed | | Translation | codes are kept, the chip also works in the translated text | If a message contains more than two codes or the same code twice, it cannot be sent. The reason is shown below the input. ## What others see Whoever clicks your chip sees the stats of the piece and your name as the owner. They do not see the rest of your inventory. A code cannot be guessed: there are more than 28 million possible codes, and lookups are limited.