Arqade Asked on June 25, 2021
I recently bought Terraria and have been receiving these "Steam Trading cards" while playing. I don’t have any knowledge on them but I enjoy collecting items, so I’m intrigued; What are they, exactly? How do I get more? How do I trade them?
All the items in my inventory are ‘Common’ – does that mean there are rarer ones? How do you get those?
When you play certain games on Steam, you can earn 'Trading Cards' as a collectible item. Those cards are placed into your Steam inventory.
If you collect a full 'set' of cards for a particular game, you can trade that set in for items for your profile, as well as a 'completion' badge. The items you can earn are as follows:
Games might have different 'levels' of card sets, requiring you to collect the same set multiple times to fully max out your badge or earn more items.
Most games will drop half the total amount of cards. For example, Half-Life 2 has 8 cards in a set, so you will receive (max) 4 card drops. You can check how many drops you have remaining on your badges page. This basically means you won't be able to complete sets based purely on drops. This is where the Steam community steps in.
There are a couple of ways to build complete sets
You can read more about Steam Trading Cards on Steam's FAQ
Correct answer by Robotnik on June 25, 2021
These are called Steam Trading Cards. To quote the website:
Steam Trading Cards are virtual cards earned by playing games on Steam. Sets of cards can be turned into game badges and tradable Steam community items.
Playing Steam games will cause you to earn these virtual cards as you play. Collecting sets of cards can get you special achievements and badges, and you can also buy and sell these cards on the Steam community marketplace.
On the Wikipedia page, it also states:
Steam Trading Cards are distributed through several methods; if a game has a trading card set, playing that game will periodically grant the player trading cards until a threshold is met.
This means that you get these cards randomly and periodically while you play, until you meet the set threshold. I can't find any sources for how to get rare or uncommon cards specifically, as it seems to be completely random.
Here's a link to the Steam community marketplace for trading these cards.
Answered by Sciborg on June 25, 2021
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