# Items
The meta progression in StarHeroes revolves around items. Players can earn items by playing and winning ranked matches. These items slightly enhance your spaceships' performance.
Equipping items for a ship involves using its six slots:
* 2 for offensive items
* 2 for defensive items
* 2 for utility items.
Each ship has its own set of items, so if you want to play a shooter today, you must ensure our shooter is equipped before the game. Items on a given ship cannot be changed during the game.
### Types of items
Stash - here you can view all the items you've acquired during the game, including those equipped on your ship.
In the game we have offensive, defensive and utility items:
1. **Damage Enhancement System -** increases our total damage
2. **Anomaly Bane** - boosts damage caused by anomalies and star seed
3. **Assault Core -** enhances the damage we inflict on enemy ships
4. **Hull Reinforcement Matrix** - increases our maximum health
5. **Shield Reinforcement Matrix** - increases our maximum shield
6. **Shield Augmentation Matrix** - increases our maximum shield every minute of gameplay
7. **Hull Augmentation Matrix** - increases our maximum health every minute of gameplay
8. **Aegis Module** - enhances our damage resistance
9. **StarDust Supply** - we start with more StarDust at the beginning of the game
10. **StarDust Generator** - increases our passive StarDust earnings by a given percentage
11. **Vampirism** - when attacking an enemy, we regain some health based on the damage inflicted
### Selling Items
All the items we acquire can be sold in exchange for a small amount of Credits.
### Upgrade Tool
We're introducing the ability to upgrade acquired items. Each item can be upgraded up to five times. If you have a +4 item with a rarity of common, rare, or epic, leveling it up to +5 will change its rarity to the next level with a +0 upgrade. Only legendary items can be upgraded to +5.
To upgrade an item, move it to the upgrade tool and insert the items you wish to sacrifice to enhance the main item. Upgrading also requires credits.
### **How to Obtain Items**
**Items are obtained as loot during gameplay by performing certain actions:**
* destroying StarDust containers,
* destroying enemy ships,
* capturing anomalies,
* winning the game.
Items acquired by the player go into an unlimited stash where the player can manage them and equip them on their ships.
Each player has a daily limit on how many items they can obtain in a single day. Once this limit is reached, the player cannot loot any more items that day.
### Items - Detailed Info
1. **Daily Items Acquired**
We can collect up to 30 items per day. By purchasing an "item permit" in the store, we can increase the number of items we can acquire on a given day.
2. **Total Items Acquired Today**
This is the sum of items collected during a day's play, along with their rarities.
3. **Drop Chance**
This is the probability of obtaining an item of a specific rarity. The higher your rank, the better your chances of receiving higher rarity items: Common, Rare, Epic, or Legendary.
## Increase Daily Item Limit
Items permits allow players to increase the daily limit of items that they can get by playing and winning ranked matches.
