Strange Part

Strange Part
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Basic Information
Released:	March 22, 2012 Patch
Availability:	Drop (expired) or Uncrate (bonus)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	No
Available Qualities
	Unique
Loadout Stats
	Strange Part; Adding this Strange Part to a Strange-quality item will enable it to track an additional new statistic!; ; This is a limited use item. Uses: 1

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Only found in crates, Strange Parts will help you study specific aspects of (what I charitably call) your performance in battle by letting you customize your favorite Strange weapon. Now you're free to track the number of enemies you gib, projectiles you reflect, heads you've shot, and more.

— The Administrator

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Strange Parts are tool items. They are represented by a counter sitting next to a screen displaying an image, with some cut cables and spare parts. The image on the screen changes depending on the Strange Part.

Strange Parts can only be used on Strange weapons, cosmetic items, and Power Up Canteens. They allow players to track additional statistics, such as number of headshot kills or buildings destroyed.

Up to three Strange Parts can be applied onto one Strange item. Certain Strange Parts cannot be used on certain weapons; for example, the Headshot tool cannot be used on a Strange Wrench. When applied, it does not count any previous stats. Strange Parts can be individually removed from a weapon using the Restore button in the backpack, allowing the player to remove a strange part of their choosing; however, a part which has been removed is not returned to the player, and is instead permanently lost.

Variants

Certain Strange Parts are only compatible with certain weapons. A table of the restrictions is given below.

These restrictions are based on specific attributes listed in the items_game.txt file, which do not necessarily reflect weapon functionality. The tables below and elsewhere on the Wiki are based on these attributes.

There are some mismatches between weapon capabilities and Strange Part compatibility which are not bugs, strictly speaking. E.g. the Medi Gun can be used to extinguish teammates, but it is not possible to apply the Teammates Extinguished Strange Part to a Strange Medi Gun. In this case, it is probably because the Medi Gun takes a few seconds to extinguish burning teammates, but all of the weapons that are compatible with the Teammates Extinguished Strange Part work instantly; only the latter mechanism is tracked by the Strange Part.

Strange part tags
Can Deal Damage	Can Deal Gib Damage	Can Reflect Projectiles	Can Headshot
Any weapon except: Bonk! Atomic Punch^‡ Crit-a-Cola Mad Milk Mutated Milk Rocket Jumper^† Buff Banner^‡ Gunboats^† Battalion's Backup Concheror B.A.S.E. Jumper^† Gas Passer^† Ali Baba's Wee Booties^† Sticky Jumper^† Bootlegger^† Sandvich^‡ Robo-Sandvich^† Dalokohs Bar Fishcake^† Buffalo Steak Sandvich^† Second Banana^† Construction PDA Medi Gun^‡ Kritzkrieg^‡ Quick-Fix^‡ Vaccinator Jarate^‡ Self-Aware Beauty Mark Razorback Darwin's Danger Shield^† Cozy Camper^† Disguise Kit^† Invis Watch Enthusiast's Timepiece^† Quäckenbirdt^† Cloak and Dagger Dead Ringer Sapper^‡ Ap-Sap^† Snack Attack Red-Tape Recorder	Rocket Launcher^‡ Original Direct Hit Black Box^‡ Liberty Launcher Cow Mangler 5000 Beggar's Bazooka Air Strike^‡ Grenade Launcher^‡ Loch-n-Load^‡ Loose Cannon^‡ Iron Bomber^‡ Stickybomb Launcher^‡ Scottish Resistance Quickiebomb Launcher Ullapool Caber Apoco-Fists Wrangler^‡ Giger Counter Classic	Flame Thrower^‡ Rainblower Nostromo Napalmer^† Backburner^‡ Degreaser^‡ Dragon's Fury^†‡	Sniper Rifle^‡ AWPer Hand Huntsman^‡ Fortified Compound^† Bazaar Bargain^‡ Machina Shooting Star Hitman's Heatmaker Classic Ambassador^‡
Can Deal Posthumous Damage	Can Extinguish	Can Deal Critical Damage	Can be Equipped by Soldier or Demoman
Flying Guillotine Sandman^‡ Boston Basher Three-Rune Blade^† Wrap Assassin Rocket Launcher^‡ Original Direct Hit Black Box^‡ Liberty Launcher Cow Mangler 5000 Beggar's Bazooka Air Strike^‡ Righteous Bison Flame Thrower^‡ Rainblower Nostromo Napalmer^† Backburner^‡ Degreaser^‡ Phlogistinator Dragon's Fury^†‡ Flare Gun^‡ Detonator^‡ Manmelter Scorch Shot^‡ Sharpened Volcano Fragment^† Grenade Launcher^‡ Loch-n-Load^‡ Loose Cannon^‡ Iron Bomber^‡ Pomson 6000 Rescue Ranger^‡ Wrangler^‡ Giger Counter Southern Hospitality Syringe Gun Blutsauger Crusader's Crossbow^‡ Overdose Huntsman^‡ Fortified Compound^† Tribalman's Shiv	Mad Milk Mutated Milk Flame Thrower^‡ Rainblower Nostromo Napalmer^† Backburner^‡ Degreaser^‡ Manmelter Dragon's Fury^†‡ Gas Passer^† Thermal Thruster^† Sandvich^‡ Robo-Sandvich^† Dalokohs Bar Fishcake^† Buffalo Steak Sandvich^† Second Banana^† Sydney Sleeper Jarate^‡ Self-Aware Beauty Mark	Any weapon except: Bonk! Atomic Punch^‡ Crit-a-Cola Mad Milk Mutated Milk Cow Mangler 5000 Buff Banner^‡ Gunboats^† Battalion's Backup Concheror Mantreads B.A.S.E. Jumper^† Gas Passer^† Ali Baba's Wee Booties^† Bootlegger^† Chargin' Targe^‡ Splendid Screen Tide Turner^† Ullapool Caber Sandvich^‡ Robo-Sandvich^† Dalokohs Bar Fishcake^† Buffalo Steak Sandvich^† Second Banana^† Holiday Punch Wrangler^‡ Short Circuit^† Southern Hospitality Construction PDA Medi Gun^‡ Kritzkrieg^‡ Quick-Fix^‡ Vaccinator Sniper Rifle^‡ AWPer Hand Sydney Sleeper Bazaar Bargain^‡ Machina Shooting Star Hitman's Heatmaker Classic Jarate^‡ Self-Aware Beauty Mark Razorback Darwin's Danger Shield^† Cozy Camper^† Knife^‡ Sharp Dresser^† Black Rose^† Your Eternal Reward Wanga Prick^† Conniver's Kunai Spy-cicle Disguise Kit Invis Watch Enthusiast's Timepiece Quäckenbirdt Cloak and Dagger Dead Ringer Sapper^‡ Ap-Sap^† Snack Attack Red-Tape Recorder	Any Soldier or Demoman weapon except: Rocket Jumper^† Buff Banner^‡ Gunboats^† Battalion's Backup Concheror B.A.S.E. Jumper^† Ali Baba's Wee Booties^† Bootlegger^† Sticky Jumper^† Splendid Screen Persian Persuader^‡
Can Destroy Sappers	Can Deal Long-Range Damage	Can Deal Taunt Damage	Can Heal Allies
Homewrecker Maul^† Neon Annihilator Wrench^‡ Golden Wrench^† Gunslinger Southern Hospitality Jag^‡ Eureka Effect^†	Any weapon that can deal damage except: Any melee weapon, excluding: Sandman^‡ Wrap Assassin Mantreads Flame Thrower^‡ Rainblower Nostromo Napalmer^† Backburner^‡ Degreaser^‡ Phlogistinator Chargin' Targe^‡ Splendid Screen Tide Turner^† Short Circuit^† Sapper^‡ Ap-Sap^† Snack Attack Red-Tape Recorder	Sandman^‡ Atomizer Shotgun^‡ Panic Attack^‡ Equalizer Escape Plan Rainblower Flare Gun^‡ Detonator^‡ Reserve Shooter^‡ Manmelter Scorch Shot^‡ Eyelander^‡ Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker Nessie's Nine Iron^† Claidheamh Mòr^‡ Half-Zatoichi Persian Persuader^‡ Fists Apoco-Fists Holiday Punch Frontier Justice^‡ Gunslinger Ubersaw^‡ Huntsman^‡ Fortified Compound^† Knife^‡ Black Rose^† Your Eternal Reward Wanga Prick^† Conniver's Kunai Big Earner Saxxy Memory Maker	Sandvich^‡ Robo-Sandvich^† Dalokohs Bar Fishcake^† Buffalo Steak Sandvich^† Second Banana^† Crusader's Crossbow^‡ Medi Gun^‡ Kritzkrieg^‡ Quick-Fix^‡ Vaccinator Amputator^‡
Can Deal Damage to Buildings	Can Deal Damage to Tanks
Any weapon that can deal damage except: Flying Guillotine Thermal Thruster^†	Any weapon that can deal damage except: Thermal Thruster^†
^† These weapons are not currently available in Strange quality, see article for more information. ^‡ Also applies to Festive, Festivized, Botkiller, Australium and/or Decorated variants of this weapon.

v • d • e List of Strange Parts
Tag Required	Strange Part
Can Deal Damage		Uncrate #41 Uncrate #55		Uncrate #41 Uncrate #59 Uncrate #103		Uncrate #44		Uncrate #44		Uncrate #45		Uncrate #45
	Strange Part: Airborne Enemies Killed		Strange Part: Heavies Killed		Strange Part: Demomen Killed		Strange Part: Revenge Kills		Strange Part: Domination Kills		Strange Part: Soldiers Killed
		Drop (expired)		Uncrate #47		Uncrate #47		Uncrate #49		Uncrate #49		Uncrate #49
	Strange Part: Full Moon Kills		Strange Part: Cloaked Spies Killed		Strange Part: Scouts Killed		Strange Part: Engineers Killed		Strange Part: Robots Destroyed		Strange Part: Low-Health Kills
		Drop (expired)		Drop (expired)		Uncrate #54		Uncrate #54		Uncrate #54		Uncrate #55 Uncrate #103
	Strange Part: Halloween Kills		Strange Part: Robots Destroyed During Halloween		Strange Part: Underwater Kills		Strange Part: Snipers Killed		Strange Part: Kills While Übercharged		Strange Part: Pyros Killed
		Uncrate #55		Uncrate #56		Uncrate #56		Uncrate #59		Uncrate #59		Uncrate #71
	Strange Part: Defender Kills		Strange Part: Medics Killed		Strange Part: Tanks Destroyed		Strange Part: Medics Killed That Have Full ÜberCharge		Strange Part: Giant Robots Destroyed		Strange Part: Kills During Victory Time
		Uncrate #71		Uncrate #75		Uncrate #75		Uncrate #75		Uncrate #76		Uncrate #76 Uncrate #103
	Strange Part: Robot Spies Destroyed		Strange Part: Unusual-Wearing Player Kills		Strange Part: Spies Killed		Strange Part: Burning Enemy Kills		Strange Part: Killstreaks Ended		Strange Part: Damage Dealt
		Uncrate #77		Uncrate #82		Uncrate #85		Uncrate #85		Uncrate #90		Uncrate #90
	Strange Part: Point-Blank Kills		Strange Part: Full Health Kills		Strange Part: Robot Scouts Destroyed		Strange Part: Taunting Player Kills		Strange Part: Not Crit nor MiniCrit Kills		Strange Part: Player Hits
Can Deal Gib Damage		Uncrate #41 Uncrate #71
Can Deal Gib Damage	Strange Part: Gib Kills
Can Deal Damage to buildings		Uncrate #42 Uncrate #85
Can Deal Damage to buildings	Strange Part: Buildings Destroyed
Can Headshot		Uncrate #42 Uncrate #82
Can Headshot	Strange Part: Headshot Kills
Can Reflect Projectiles		Uncrate #42
Can Reflect Projectiles	Strange Part: Projectiles Reflected
Can Extinguish		Uncrate #43
Can Extinguish	Strange Part: Teammates Extinguished
Can Deal Posthumous Damage		Uncrate #43
Can Deal Posthumous Damage	Strange Part: Posthumous Kills
Can Deal Critical Damage		Uncrate #44 Uncrate #103
Can Deal Critical Damage	Strange Part: Critical Kills
Can be Equipped by Soldier or Demoman		Uncrate #45
Can be Equipped by Soldier or Demoman	Strange Part: Kills While Explosive Jumping
Can Destroy Sappers		Uncrate #47
Can Destroy Sappers	Strange Part: Sappers Destroyed
Can Deal Long-Range Damage		Uncrate #56
Can Deal Long-Range Damage	Strange Part: Long-Distance Kills
Can Deal Taunt Damage		Uncrate #60
Can Deal Taunt Damage	Strange Part: Kills with a Taunt Attack
Is Cosmetic		Uncrate #76		Uncrate #77		Uncrate #82		Uncrate #90
Is Cosmetic	Strange Cosmetic Part: Freezecam Taunt Appearances		Strange Cosmetic Part: Fires Survived		Strange Cosmetic Part: Kills		Strange Cosmetic Part: Assists
Can Heal Allies		Uncrate #77 Uncrate #103
Can Heal Allies	Strange Part: Allied Healing Done
Note	Numbers indicate the series of Mann Co. Supply Crate that each item can be obtained from.

Crafting

As a crafting ingredient

Strange Part		Strange Count Transfer Tool
x2	=

Demonstration

Update history

March 22, 2012 Patch

Strange Parts were added to the game.
[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Gib Kills, Airborne Enemies Killed, Heavies Killed, Buildings Destroyed, Projectiles Reflected, and Headshot Kills.

April 17, 2012 Patch

Added the ability to remove Strange parts via the Restore button in the backpack.

April 27, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Posthumous Kills, Teammates Extinguished, and Full Moon Kills.

May 17, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Demomen Killed, Soldiers Killed, Domination Kills, Revenge Kills, Critical Kills, and Kills While Explosive Jumping.

May 31, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Strange Part counters watched in-game now appear in a dim-gray color.

June 27, 2012 Patch (Pyromania Update)

Fixed Strange Part: Projectiles Reflected not tracking grenade and sentry rocket deflections.

July 2, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Part: Full Moon Kills.

September 4, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Scouts Killed, Cloaked Spies Killed, and Sappers Destroyed.

October 9, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Engineers Killed, Robots Destroyed, and Low-Health Kills.

October 26, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Halloween Kills and Robots Destroyed During Halloween.

December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Defender Kills, Snipers Killed, Pyros Killed, Underwater Kills, and Kills While Übercharged.

February 14, 2013 Patch

Fixed "Low-Health Kills" strange part also counting kills after the player had died.

March 12, 2013 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Medics Killed, Tanks Destroyed, and Long-Distance Kills.

June 19, 2013 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Medics Killed That Have Full ÜberCharge and Giant Robots Destroyed.

August 27, 2013 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Robot Spies Destroyed, Kills During Victory Time, and Kills with a Taunt Attack.
[Undocumented] Added schema for Strange Part "KillEaterEvent_UniquePlayerKills".

October 29, 2013 Patch (Scream Fortress 2013)

Strange Part: Kills While Ubercharged can no longer be applied to Strange Equalizers and Escape Plans.

December 6, 2013 Patch

Added Strange parts that can be applied to Strange cosmetic items.
[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Spies Killed, Unusual-Wearing Player Kills, Burning Enemy Kills, Killstreaks Ended, Freezecam Taunt Appearances, Damage Dealt, Fires Survived, Allied Healing Done, and Point-Blank Kills.

June 11, 2014 Patch #1

Fixed being able to apply the Strange Part: Buildings Destroyed tool to the Flying Guillotine.

February 11, 2015 Patch #1

[Undocumented] Added Strange Parts: Not Crit nor Mini-Crit Kills and Player Hits.
[Undocumented] Added Strange Cosmetic Part: Assists.

August 18, 2015 Patch #1

The Huo-Long Heater can now accept Posthumous Kills strange parts.

August 27, 2015 Patch

The Dalokohs Bar can now accept Ally Healing Done strange parts.

December 17, 2015 Patch (Tough Break Update)

All Strange parts can now be applied to Strange cosmetics items.

December 22, 2015 Patch

Strange Part: Kills While Explosive Jumping can now be applied to Strange Grenade Launchers.

August 29, 2016 Patch

Strange Part: Allies Extinguished can now be applied to Strange Sydney Sleeper rifles.

March 28, 2018 Patch #1

Fixed the Deflect Projectiles strange part not counting deflections.

September 16, 2021 Patch

Updated description of the "Strange Part: Player Hits" item to match its name.

August 11, 2022 Patch

[Undocumented] Updated the description for several Strange Parts.

Bugs

The Strange Part: Buildings Destroyed can be applied to the Chargin' Targe, but cannot raise the counter, even by killing an Engineer hauling an active building.
The Strange Part: Kills While Explosive Jumping can be applied to the Mantreads, but cannot raise the counter, because the weapon requires landing to deal damage.
The Strange Part: Kills While Explosive Jumping cannot be applied to the Panic Attack, the Splendid Screen or the Persian Persuader.
The Strange Part: Critical Kills cannot be applied to the Sydney Sleeper or the Ullapool Caber, even though they can be Crit boosted.
The Strange Part: Critical Kills cannot be applied to any of Spy's melee weapons, except the Saxxy and Golden Frying Pan, even though they deal critical damage upon backstabs.
The Strange Part: Kills While Ubercharged cannot be applied to the Equalizer or Escape Plan, even though a Medic can freely ÜberCharge a Soldier who is wielding them.
The Strange Part: Gib Kills cannot be applied to the Detonator or the Scorch Shot.
The Strange Part: Posthumous Kills as applied to the Wrap Assassin only increments the counter on direct impact kills with the bauble, and does not count kills from the bleeding that results afterwards.
The Strange Part: Player Hits does not raise the counter if an enemy was killed by a hit.
The Strange Part: Tanks Destroyed can be applied to the Flying Guillotine, even though it cannot damage tanks. The counter can still be raised if the player has damaged a tank and then holds the Guillotine when that tank is destroyed.
- Similarly, Tanks Destroyed can be applied to the Mantreads, the Chargin' Targe, and the Splendid Screen, even though they cannot damage tanks. However, since these weapons are always active, the player only has to be alive when a tank they have damaged is destroyed for the counter to increase.

Notes

Despite the name, the Strange Part is only available in Unique quality, "Strange" being solely a descriptor for modifying Strange quality items.
Any parts applied to Engineer wrenches only count actions with the Wrench and not with any built Sentry Guns.
- Parts applied to cosmetics also do not count Sentry Gun kills unless the Sentry was wrangled.
Servers using an altered tf_playergib setting do not change the way the Gib Kills counter is counted, only kills that would normally gib are still counted. Likewise, killing a player who is wearing a Bombinomicon does not increase the counter of a Gib Kills strange part.
All of the Strange flamethrowers do not count gib kills with deflected rocket/grenade, headshots with deflected arrows and kills while explosive jumping on deflected enemy explosives, nor do they track healing done with reflected Crusader's Crossbow bolts. As a result, respective Strange Parts can not be applied.
Destroying Sappers with any Strange Engineer wrenches does not increase a buildings destroyed counter; however, destroying Sappers with a Strange Homewrecker or a Strange Neon Annihilator increases a buildings destroyed counter.
Other than strange parts that are directly related to destroying Mann vs. Machine Robots or tanks, strange parts cannot gain points for killing MvM robots. Strange parts that do not rank up based on kills, such as Strange Part: Allied Healing Done, continue to track statistics normally in the MvM game mode.
'Posthumous' is, in Team Fortress 2, the act of killing someone after dying (for example, a Pyro sets someone on fire, then dies; if the player set on fire dies from the afterburn before the Pyro respawns, it is counted as a 'Posthumous' kill for the Pyro).

Trivia

The filename of the backpack icon for the Strange Part: Taunting Player Kills, strange_part_conga_killer_large.vtf, suggests that it was originally planned to track the number of Conga dancers killed.

Gallery

The prompt when a Strange Part is applied.

Strange Part

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