On January 9th 2017 we will be removing ability to drop hats in games using the ‘=’ key by default. If developers still want to make this feature available in their games they will be able to do so using the script provided below.

The reasoning behind this change is that hat dropping is a legacy feature that most games don’t use and therefore should not be available by default. Hat dropping is a feature only available to desktop users and can create problems in games which do not clean up dropped hats. Also, with the introduction of accessories players are now able to bring ten accessories into game, this can create many more items littered on the ground for games that don’t have hat cleanup scripts.

If you feel that hat dropping is a feature that works well in your game then you can put the following LocalScript in the PlayerScripts folder. This will preserve the old hat dropping behavior.