Holiday

Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask
Level 10 Holiday Hat
Holiday Restriction: Halloween / Full Moon
Brown paper never looked so mildly disturbing.

( Achievement Item: Not Tradable or Marketable )

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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 lasted 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 completing Merasmissions. In Scream Fortress 2017, Merasmissions were incorporated into the general Contracts system.

Halloween holiday dates

2009 – 2018 October 29, 2009 – November 9, 2009 October 27, 2010 – November 8, 2010 October 27, 2011 – November 6, 2011 October 26, 2012 – November 8, 2012 October 29, 2013 – November 11, 2013 October 29, 2014 – November 12, 2014 October 28, 2015 – November 12, 2015 October 21, 2016 – November 16, 2016 October 26, 2017 – November 8, 2017 October 19, 2018 – November 14, 2018 2019 – 2024 October 1, 2019 – November 7, 2019† October 1, 2020 – November 7, 2020† October 1, 2021 – November 7, 2021† October 1, 2022 – November 7, 2022† October 1, 2023 – November 7, 2023† October 1, 2024 – November 7, 2024†

^†Holiday was automatically turned on during the 1st of the month.

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 setting tf_birthday 1 in the server.cfg file. The TF Birthday restriction is currently exclusive to Noise Maker - TF Birthday.

TF Birthday holiday dates

2009 – 2018 August 23, 2009 August 23, 2010 August 23, 2011 August 23, 2012 August 27, 2013 August 27, 2014 August 24, 2015 August 24, 2016 August 24, 2017 August 24, 2018 2019 – 2024 August 24, 2019† August 23, 2020 August 23, 2021 August 23, 2022 August 23, 2023 August 23, 2024

^†Items did not drop in these years.

Restricted items

All classes	Action items
		Noise Maker - TF Birthday

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.

Smissmas holiday dates

2011 – 2020 December 15, 2011 – December 31, 2011 December 20, 2012 – December 31, 2012 December 20, 2013 – December 31, 2013 December 22, 2014 – February 16, 2015 December 15, 2015 – January 7, 2016 December 21, 2016 – January 11, 2017 December 21, 2017 – January 10, 2018 December 19, 2018 – January 7, 2019 December 1, 2019 – January 7, 2020† December 1, 2020 – January 7, 2021† 2021 – 2023 December 1, 2021 – January 7, 2022† December 1, 2022 – January 7, 2023† December 1, 2023 – January 7, 2024†

^†Holiday was automatically turned on during the 1st of the month.

Restricted items

All classes	Action items
		Noise Maker - Winter Holiday

Unused content

• There is an unused variant of the "Halloween / Full Moon" holiday restriction in the game's files that also restricts items to Valentine's Day.