Hats? (Ending Question)

[kirbykips]

I just finished up my first play through and watched the final cutscene. I was curious though about one part, where they explain you have a collection of antique hats and show a room with a row of hat racks, some with hats, others without.
It's been so long, so I forgot where or how I got the majority of the hats they displayed. What I could glean from the scene was that many of the hats in the collection were special in someway to your journey. For example, the first hat you get and the El Vibrato Crown are there. There were some strange ones though like the dough covered hat and the Jamaican hat you get from a bum.
So this leads to a few questions. Do you get an achievement for occupying all of these hat racks or is it just that some of the racks are empty in the ending? And if there is an achievement or purpose to those empty racks, what other hats am I missing?
It's a definite duh that two of the hats are the hard mode hat or the necro hat, but there's another rack left over.
I kind of want to do other runs with all the classes, horses, and pardners. Probably in these runs, I'll be conquering things people have done and regretted like the goblet, hardmode hat, or necro books. I'm trying to find all the secrets I can, but MAN this game is really good and hiding its secrets.

[masterofflys]

I don't think you can fill all the hat slots in one game. Two of those racks are probably for the starting hats you DIDN'T choose.

There's no achievement for collecting all the hats. As for a perk... if there is I'd like to know about it.

[No Time to Explain]

You have to be in hard mode for one and have full necromancy and there is also hats you miss out on to get other hats. And as someone that traveled the entire game and basically did everything except for a couple of things I dont know exist currently (If they exist.) And I have not filled everything and it is impossible without messing with the files. There are also class specif hats like the beanslinger can get certain hats using the beaniron which the others cant.

[Sines]

On New Years Eve, you'll recieve a special achievement if enough of your hatracks aren't wearing pants...

[No Time to Explain]

Originally posted by Sines:

On New Years Eve, you'll recieve a special achievement if enough of your hatracks aren't wearing pants...

1. what?
2. there is no steam acheivement for that.

[kirbykips]

Originally posted by Who Cares:

Originally posted by Sines:

On New Years Eve, you'll recieve a special achievement if enough of your hatracks aren't wearing pants...

1. what?
2. there is no steam acheivement for that.

I'm preeeettyyyyy sure that was a joke. Then again, there have been similar achievements on The Stanley Parable. For example, play on Tuesday, all day or play the game after 3 years passed. Or one that tells you to go into your coding and make it appear.

[No Time to Explain]

Originally posted by kirbykips:

Originally posted by Who Cares:

1. what?
2. there is no steam acheivement for that.

I'm preeeettyyyyy sure that was a joke. Then again, there have been similar achievements on The Stanley Parable. For example, play on Tuesday, all day or play the game after 3 years passed. Or one that tells you to go into your coding and make it appear.

It would still show it in the hidden achievements.

[Torzelbaum]

What is the second hat from the left supposed to be!? I don't think I have ever found it on any of my playthroughs.

[Eroquin]

Originally posted by masterofflys:

I don't think you can fill all the hat slots in one game. Two of those racks are probably for the starting hats you DIDN'T choose.

Actually, you can get every hat in one playthrough.

Originally posted by Who Cares:

Originally posted by Sines:

On New Years Eve, you'll recieve a special achievement if enough of your hatracks aren't wearing pants...

1. what?
2. there is no steam acheivement for that.

That was a joke referencing their main game, Kingdom of Loathing.
http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Look,_Ma!_No_Pants!

Originally posted by Torzelbaum:

What is the second hat from the left supposed to be!? I don't think I have ever found it on any of my playthroughs.

That would be the hat that Rufus sends you.

So, withour further ado, the list:

Starting Hat (any of the three)
Rufus' Animal Hat (you get one of these if you picked an "animal" named character by shooting a stuffed animal in character creation)
Fake Pope Hat
Really Nice Cowboy Hat
Prototype Stetson
Turnip Crown
Gold Crown (made via the hippy with 23 gold teeth, not the same as the tiara)
El Vibrato Crown
Yeast-Covered Hat
Strange Head Sack
Spittoon Hat

[Torzelbaum]

OK. I thought it was Ellsbury's helmet. Guess I should have checked here before spending two hours on a new run.

Does Rufus send that hat on a specific day or after a specific number of postcards?

[Eroquin]

That part I'm not sure of as I only recently learned myself. My guess (which is only that, so take with a grain of salt) would be an order of: skillbook, class crafting set (once you have the skill), animal hat, and then defaulting to the air.

So I would assume either second or third depending just how much you get done before receiving a second package. But, you know, assuming and all.

[Torzelbaum]

I just ran through the game again and you get a class specific ring before the animal hat.

edit x 2: Actually, I think that is for snake oiler can cow puncher only.

[jle30303]

Thread necro:

If you have sold any of the above hats to merchants, do they still count, or are their racks empty in the endgame?

[jle30303]

Also, in my most recent run as a Cow Puncher... in postcards from Rufus, I've had the class crafting set, a skill book, a class-specific ring, 2 lots of special air, and no class animal hat. When can I expect my class animal hat to show up, and how do I get another postcard to send Rufus anyway? Is there a non-limited supply of them somewhere?

[No Time to Explain]

Originally posted by jle30303:

Also, in my most recent run as a Cow Puncher... in postcards from Rufus, I've had the class crafting set, a skill book, a class-specific ring, 2 lots of special air, and no class animal hat. When can I expect my class animal hat to show up, and how do I get another postcard to send Rufus anyway? Is there a non-limited supply of them somewhere?

You have to choose an animal name
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[jle30303]

Erm, what do you mean, "choose an animal name"? Where, when, how? Which animal?