Good Ol' Cap
| Good Ol' Cap | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Hat |
| Location | Abandoned House |
| Achievement | Greenhorn |
| Price | 1000g |
The Good Ol' Cap is usually the first hat a farmer ever owns, and getting it is tangled up with the moment the hat shop opens at all. Earning a running total of 15,000g unlocks the Greenhorn achievement, which for most saves is the very first achievement of the file. A mouse has quietly moved into the Abandoned House in Cindersap Forest, and the first achievement of any kind is what persuades it to start trading. So the cap and the shop tend to arrive on the same morning, which makes this scruffy little hat the cheapest thing on the mouse's shelf and the natural first purchase. Emily also hands it out at the Desert Festival as part of a full outfit, for anyone who would rather be given one than buy it.
Location
The Abandoned House stands in the south of Cindersap Forest, below the farm, and the in-game map labels it the Ruined House. A letter from the mouse lands in the post box the morning after the first achievement is earned, announcing that hats are now for sale, although the shop works whether or not the letter has been read. From then on every fresh achievement puts another hat on the shelves, and the Good Ol' Cap is the one tied to Greenhorn.
The money milestone counts everything the farm has ever brought in, not the coins currently in the purse. The inventory menu prints that running total directly under the current funds, so progress towards 15,000g is easy to watch. Spring forage, a first crop of Parsnips and a few Help Wanted jobs usually carry a save past the line well inside the first year, which is why the mouse so often opens for business long before anything else interesting has happened.
The other way in is Emily's makeover service at the Desert Festival in Spring. Emily and Sandy give one free new look a day during the festival, with a short scene, and the outfit that comes out is picked at random from a long wardrobe. The Good Ol' Cap version arrives with Brown Overalls and a pair of Farmer Pants dyed a dark brown. The odds of drawing that particular set are roughly one in fifty, so it is a pleasant accident rather than a plan.
Effect
The cap is a soft, lived-in ballcap with a bent peak and a washed-out look, the sort of thing a farmhand wears until it falls apart. It sits very comfortably over the starting shirt and a pair of overalls, so it fits the first year better than almost anything else in the shop. Like the rest of the valley's headwear it is pure dressing up, and it changes nothing about farming, fighting or fishing. Hats go on cats and dogs as well as on the farmer, and a battered old cap on a dog is one of the better uses for a spare.
Notes
No shop in the valley buys hats back, and the mouse itself trades in one direction only, so a second cap is dead weight in a chest rather than spare cash. Anyone collecting the full wardrobe should treat the mouse's stock as the backbone of it, since most of the shelves fill up simply by playing: money, friendship, cooking, crafting, fishing and shipping milestones each add their own hat as they are passed.
All Hats
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Location |
|---|---|---|
| ??? (hat) | 
|
Volcano Caldera |
| Abigail's Bow | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Arcane Hat | 
|
Adventurer's Guild |
| Archer's Cap | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Beanie | 
|
Tailoring |
| Blobfish Mask | 
|
Tailoring |
| Blue Bonnet | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Blue Bow | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Blue Cowboy Hat | 
|
Skull Cavern |
| Blue Ribbon | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Bluebird Mask | 
|
Island Trader |
| Bowler Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Bridal Veil | 
|
Tailoring |
| Bucket Hat | 
|
Trout Derby |
| Butterfly Bow | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Cat Ears | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Chef Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Chicken Mask | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Cone Hat | 
|
Night Market |
| Cool Cap | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Copper Pan (hat) | 
|
Copper Pan |
| Cowboy Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Cowgal Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Cowpoke Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Daisy | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Dark Ballcap | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Dark Cowboy Hat | 
|
Skull Cavern |
| Dark Velvet Bow | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Delicate Bow | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Deluxe Cowboy Hat | 
|
Island Trader |
| Deluxe Pirate Hat | 
|
Volcano Dungeon |
| Dinosaur Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Earmuffs | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Elegant Turban | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Emily's Magic Hat | 
|
Emily's 14-heart event |
| Eye Patch | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Fashion Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Fedora | 
|
Stardew Valley Fair |
| Fishing Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Flat Topped Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Floppy Beanie | 
|
Tailoring |
| Forager's Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Frog Hat | 
|
Ginger Island |
| Garbage Hat | 
|
Garbage Cans |
| Gil's Hat | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Gnome's Cap | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Goblin Mask | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Goggles | 
|
Tailoring |
| Gold Pan (hat) | 
|
Gold Pan |
| Golden Helmet | 
|
Golden Coconuts |
| Golden Mask (hat) | 
|
Tailoring |
| Good Ol' Cap | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Governor's Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Green Turban | 
|
Desert Trader |
| Hair Bone | 
|
Tailoring |
| Hard Hat | 
|
Adventurer's Guild |
| Hunter's Cap | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Infinity Crown | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Iridium Pan (hat) | 
|
Iridium Pan |
| Jester Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Joja Cap | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Junimo Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Knight's Helmet | 
|
Adventurer's Guild |
| Laurel Wreath Crown | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Leprechaun Hat | 
|
Cindersap Forest |
| Living Hat | 
|
Weeds; Wilderness Golems; Iridium Golems |
| Logo Cap | 
|
Tailoring |
| Lucky Bow | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Magic Cowboy Hat | 
|
Desert Trader |
| Magic Turban | 
|
Desert Trader |
| Mouse Ears | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Mr. Qi's Hat | 
|
Qi's Walnut Room |
| Mummy Mask | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Mushroom Cap | 
|
Mushroom Trees |
| Mystery Hat | 
|
Mystery Boxes; Golden Mystery Boxes |
| Official Cap | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Pageboy Cap | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Panda Hat | 
|
WeGame exclusive |
| Paper Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Party Hat (blue) | 
|
Tailoring |
| Party Hat (green) | 
|
Tailoring |
| Party Hat (red) | 
|
Tailoring |
| Pink Bow | 
|
Volcano Dungeon |
| Pirate Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Plum Chapeau | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Polka Bow | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Propeller Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Pumpkin Mask | 
|
Tailoring |
| Qi Mask | 
|
Tailoring |
| Raccoon Hat | 
|
Giant Stump; Raccoon Wife's Shop |
| Radioactive Goggles | 
|
Tailoring |
| Red Cowboy Hat | 
|
Skull Cavern |
| Red Fez | 
|
Traveling Cart |
| Sailor's Cap | 
|
Festival of Ice |
| Santa Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Skeleton Mask | 
|
Adventurer's Guild |
| Small Cap | 
|
Island Trader |
| Sombrero | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Sou'wester | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Space Helmet | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Sports Cap | 
|
Mayor's Manor; Abandoned House |
| Spotted Headscarf | 
|
Tailoring |
| Squid Hat | 
|
SquidFest |
| Squire's Helmet | 
|
Metal Heads; Hot Heads; Metal Head (dangerous) |
| Star Helmet | 
|
Tailoring |
| Steel Pan (hat) | 
|
Steel Pan |
| Straw Hat | 
|
Egg Festival |
| Sunglasses | 
|
Tailoring |
| Swashbuckler Hat | 
|
Tailoring |
| Tiara | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Tiger Hat | 
|
Tiger Slimes |
| Top Hat | 
|
Casino |
| Totem Mask | 
|
Tailoring |
| Tricorn Hat | 
|
Desert Festival |
| Tropiclip | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Trucker Hat | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Warrior Helmet | 
|
Tailoring |
| Watermelon Band | 
|
Abandoned House |
| Wearable Dwarf Helm | 
|
Tailoring |
| White Bow | 
|
Abandoned House |
| White Turban | 
|
Tailoring; Skull Cavern |
| Witch Hat | 
|
Tailoring |