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Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask Level 10 Holiday Hat

Holiday Restriction: Halloween / Full Moon



Brown paper never looked so mildly disturbing.



( Achievement Item: Not Tradable )

Holidays are special events in Team Fortress 2, usually coinciding with a cultural holiday or birthday celebration. Holiday restrictions are sometimes placed on items to enable players to equip them only for a specific holiday period.

Items with holiday restrictions have the restriction denoted in their attributes as "Holiday Restriction: [name]". The restricting of items was first implemented with the Haunted Halloween Special Update in 2009.

Equipping an item with a Holiday restriction while that Holiday is not active results in the item simply not appearing in the game world.

Holidays

Halloween

The Halloween holiday was the first holiday introduced to Team Fortress 2 and has historically taken place in a few days before Halloween and lasts a week or two into early November. This holiday can also be encountered out of season during a Full Moon event. When the Halloween holiday is in effect, these Halloween restricted items become visible in-game. Originally, these items were obtained by picking up Haunted Halloween Gifts that spawned on Mann Manor, Eyeaduct, Ghost Fort, and Helltower. With the event of Scream Fortress 2015, these items became obtainable only by completion of Merasmissions. In Scream Fortress 2017, Merasmissions were incorporated into the general Contracts system.

2009: 29 October 2009 - 9 November 2009

2010: 27 October 2010 - 8 November 2010

2011: 27 October 2011 - 6 November 2011

2012: 26 October 2012 - 8 November 2012

2013: 29 October 2013 - 11 November 2013

2014: 29 October 2014- 12 November 2014

2015: 28 October 2015 - 12 November 2015

2016: 21 October 2016 - 16 November 2016

2017: 26 October 2017 - 8 November 2017

2018: 19 October 2018 - 14 November 2018

2019: 1 October 2019 - 7 November 2019 Note: Holiday was automatically turned on during the 1st of the month.



Halloween restricted items

TF Birthday

The TF Birthday holiday celebrates the original release of the Team Fortress mod, and is activated late August of every year. This holiday can be enabled on community servers by by setting tf_birthday 1 in the server.cfg file. The TF Birthday restriction is currently exclusive to Noise Maker - TF Birthday.

2009: 23 August 2009

2010: 23 August 2010

2011: 23 August 2011

2012: 23 August 2012

2013: 27 August 2013

2014: 27 August 2014

2015: 24 August 2015

2016: 24 August 2016

2017: 24 August 2017

2018: 24 August 2018

2019: 24 August 2019†

2020: 23 August 2020

† Items did not drop in these years.

Restricted items

Smissmas

The Australian Christmas 2011 Update introduced the Smissmas holiday restriction, formerly known as Winter. This restriction is currently exclusive to Noise Maker - Winter Holiday.

2011: 15 December 2011 - 31 December 2011

2012: 20 December 2012 - 31 December 2012

2013: 20 December 2013 - 31 December 2013

2014: 22 December 2014 - 16 February 2015

2015: 15 December 2015 - 7 January 2016

2016: 21 December 2016 - 11 January 2017

2017: 21 December 2017 - 10 January 2018

2018: 19 December 2018 - 7 January 2019

2019: 1 December 2019 - 7 January 2020 Note: Holiday was automatically turned on during the 1st of the month.

