Spine-Chilling Skull

Spine-Chilling Skull
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Basic Information
Worn by:	All
Slot:	Cosmetic
Equip region:	Template:Dictionary/items/er error
Released:	Scream Fortress
Availability:	Craft, Purchase (Event limited)
Tradable:	No
Craftable:	Yes
Paintable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Available Qualities
	Unique Strange
Loadout Stats
	Spine-Chilling Skull; 1 - 100; This is a special Halloween 2010 item.; Show your undying hatred for the living

“

If I have to crack some skulls, I will.

Click to listen

— The Soldier, upon hearing that his weapons clip through the hat.

”

The Spine-Chilling Skull is a headwear item that can be worn on all classes. The Spine-Chilling Skull appears as a demonic, gray skull with sharp teeth and curled ram horns, with the sockets positioned at the wearer's eyes.

The Spine-Chilling Skull hat was available for purchase from the Mann Co. Store exclusively during the Scream Fortress event, which ran between the 27th of October and the 8th of November 2010. Players could also craft using the unique "Fabricate Halloween Headgear" blueprint with the event item Unusual Haunted Metal Scrap for a 50% chance at the Spine-Chilling Skull, or its counterpart, the Voodoo Juju. The Voodoo Juju was available for a limited time in the Mann Co. Store alongside the Spine-Chilling Skull.

Painted variants

Main article: Paint Can

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Single colors

An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge	Color No. 216-190-216	Peculiarly Drab Tincture	Aged Moustache Grey

A Distinctive Lack of Hue	After Eight	Radigan Conagher Brown	Ye Olde Rustic Colour

Muskelmannbraun	Mann Co. Orange	Australium Gold	The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants

Dark Salmon Injustice	Pink as Hell	A Deep Commitment to Purple	Noble Hatter's Violet

A Color Similar to Slate	Zepheniah's Greed	Drably Olive	Indubitably Green

The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime	A Mann's Mint
Team colors

Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED)	Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU)	Balaclavas Are Forever (RED)	Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)

Team Spirit (RED)	Team Spirit (BLU)	Operator's Overalls (RED)	Operator's Overalls (BLU)

The Value of Teamwork (RED)	The Value of Teamwork (BLU)	An Air of Debonair (RED)	An Air of Debonair (BLU)

Cream Spirit (RED)	Cream Spirit (BLU)	Unpainted

Crafting

Blueprint

Refined Metal

Haunted Metal Scrap

x4

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Update history

October 27, 2010 Patch (Scream Fortress Update)

[Undocumented] Added this item to the Mann Co. Store

November 10, 2010 Patch

Some untradable Spine-Chilling Skulls were made tradable.

November 19, 2010 Patch

This hat is now paintable, and its positioning upon the Sniper's head was altered.

Bugs

This hat has clipping issues with the Dangeresque, Too?, the Blighted Beak, and all of the Soldier's primary weapons.

Trivia

The Spine-Chilling Skull was modeled by an artist from Weta Digital^[1], the same studio responsible for modeling characters from the Template:W film trilogy such as Gollum and the Balrog. The latter of the two, interestingly, bears resemblance to the Spine-Chilling Skull.
- Weta also designed the motion sensor-equipped Sentry Gun at Valve Headquarters.
Like several other Halloween hats, the Spine-Chilling Skull does not have a randomly selected level when crafted or purchased. The level of the Spine-Chilling Skull is always level 31, because Halloween is on the 31st of October.
When the Spine-Chilling Skull is moved around in the backpack, it will make a paper bag sound similar to the Halloween Masks, the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask, and the RIFT Well Spun Hat Claim Code.
Due to an error in the crafting system, an amount of Spine Chilling Skull hats that were crafted early on during the Scream Fortress event are tradable, without the use of Gift Wrap. This error has since been fixed, but a Spine Chilling Skull crafted during this time will remain tradable.