How can I get a hat? I've been playing for ages, and haven't got a darn tootin' thing.
Best Answer
While a real drop cannot be guaranteed, you can craft yourself a hat.
3 refined metals will craft into a random hat. 4 refined metals and a class token will craft a class-specific hat.
It takes two drops to create a scrap metal, three scrap metal to create a reclaimed metal, and three metal to make a refined metal. A class token is created by crafting three weapons of that class.
So for a random hat, it takes at minimum 54 items. For a class-specific hat it takes at minimum 75.
There are quite a few possible locations. The ones I know of include:
The shack between BLU spawn and point A (left side from BLU), lower level.
The shack between BLU spawn and point A (right side from BLU), upper level.
The little dead-end near point A.
Right in front of point A.
On top of the rocky cliff between points A and B.
The little shack between points A and B.
Right in front of point B.
The balcony near point B where RED initially has a drop down to point A.
The other balcony near point B.
The upstairs room across from RED's upper spawn door near point C.
The downstairs room across from RED's lower spawn door near point C.
The library room inside the Manor (left from RED spawn).
The little dead-end room near point C.
As you might have guessed, there are a lot of different places it can spawn. Not only that, but unlike the Horsemann, it appears to have no bearing on which points are actively in play.
Being a Scout gives you an advantage to finding them, since you move faster.
As far as I'm aware there is a certain chance you will get a drop at any given time and then a percentage chance what that drop will be, so every time you get a drop there would be say a 0.5% chance it would be a hat (for example not actual figures). I'm pretty sure thats how it used to work but things could have changed since the free update.
So as far as I'm aware when you get a drop its either a hat or an item so as such they do technically conflict
Best Answer
While a real drop cannot be guaranteed, you can craft yourself a hat.
3 refined metals will craft into a random hat. 4 refined metals and a class token will craft a class-specific hat.
It takes two drops to create a scrap metal, three scrap metal to create a reclaimed metal, and three metal to make a refined metal. A class token is created by crafting three weapons of that class.
So for a random hat, it takes at minimum 54 items. For a class-specific hat it takes at minimum 75.
For more crafting detail, visit the official wiki.