Spine-Chilling Skull

Spine-Chilling Skull
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Basic Information
Worn by:	All
Slot:	Cosmetic
Equip region:	Hat, Face
Released:	Scream Fortress
Availability:	Craft or Purchase (Event limited)
Tradable:	No
Craftable:	No
Paintable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	No
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

”

The Spine-Chilling Skull is a headwear item wearable by 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 was available for purchase from the Mann Co. Store for a limited time during the Scream Fortress event, which ran between the 27th of October and the 8th of November 2010.

Using the Fabricate Halloween Headgear recipe once yielded a 50% chance of crafting either a Voodoo Juju or Spine-Chilling Skull. As of the Very Scary Halloween Special Update, this is no longer possible as the recipe only results in one of three 2011 Spine-Chilling Skulls.

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

Update history

October 27, 2010 Patch (Scream Fortress Update)

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

November 10, 2010 Patch

[Undocumented] 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.

October 27, 2011 Patch (Scream Fortress Very Scary Halloween Special)

Fixed the Spine-Chilling Skull not appearing when equipped by Soldiers.
[Undocumented] The Spine-Chilling Skull and Voodoo Juju are no longer craftable.

Bugs

This hat has clipping issues with all of the Soldier's primary weapons.

Trivia

The Spine-Chilling Skull is based on the Gremlin Noise Maker.
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, the RIFT Well Spun Hat Claim Code, and the Summer Shades.
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.
On October 11, 2011 a blog post was released which detailed the process of modelling the Spine-Chilling Skull.
An Unusual Spine-Chilling Skull was given to a player after his wish of visiting Valve had been granted by Make A Wish Foundation. The Spine-Chilling Skull was later changed to the Community quality. Prior to the quality change the item was levelled 154.^[1] The item can be seen here.