Mystery Hat
| Mystery Hat | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Hat |
| Location | Mystery Boxes; Golden Mystery Boxes |
The Mystery Hat is the one piece of headwear in the valley that cannot be worked towards, only gambled for. Mystery Boxes start turning up around the farm once Mr. Qi takes an interest, and Clint cracks them open at his anvil for a small fee. Somewhere around one box in a hundred gives up this hat, and the golden version of the box roughly doubles those odds. Everything else inside a box is seed, food, ore or a book, so the hat is the only keepsake a box can produce. A farmer wearing one has opened a great many boxes.
Location
Mystery Boxes do not exist in a fresh save. Mr. Qi releases them once the farm has been running for a good while, or once a Prize Ticket has been collected from the board, and a short scene announces the change. From then on they fall out of ordinary work: felled trees, shaken seed trees, smashed crates and barrels in the Mines, the Skull Cavern and the Volcano Dungeon, slain monsters, panning spots and fishing treasure chests. The winter present train cars carry them too.
Earning Foraging Mastery opens several more taps. The Calico Egg Merchant at the Desert Festival sells them in bulk, the Trout Derby and SquidFest hand them out as prizes, artifact spots and Skull Cavern chests begin to include them, and the Bookseller trades one for the Book of Mysteries. The prize machine in front of the Mayor's house pays out in boxes, and a Milk or a Cookie left on the farmhouse table on the right winter night is answered with one.
A sealed box is useless on its own. Clint opens it for twenty five gold at his anvil, under the same menu he uses for geodes, and a Geode Crusher refuses the job. Golden Mystery Boxes are the better bet for the hat, and the Raccoon Wife at the Giant Stump trades one of those for three ordinary boxes, which is the only dependable way to build a stock of them.
Effect
The hat is cut from the packaging it came in, so it carries the same markings as the box itself and reads as a joke about its own origin. It suits a scruffy outfit and a well established save, where it stands out as the one thing no amount of planning could have earned. Wearing it leaves farming, fishing and fighting exactly as they were. Hats lift off and go onto a cat, a dog or the horse, which is the usual fate of a spare.
Notes
Opening boxes for the hat is never wasted effort. The same pool holds Prismatic Shards, Magic Rock Candy, power books, rings, Golden Pumpkins, Quality Sprinklers and stacks of fertiliser, so a farmer hunting one hat ends up better supplied than when they started.
No shop in the valley buys a hat back, which makes a duplicate worth nothing in gold and a pet the only sensible home for the second one.
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 |