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{{Quotation|'''The Medic''', proclaiming his favorite holiday. |Oktoberfest!|sound=Medic_cheers06.wav}}
 
 
 
{{Backpack item
 
{{Backpack item
| style     = float: right; width: 350px; margin: 0.5em 0.5em 1em 1em;
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| style           = float: right; width: 350px; margin: 0.5em 0.5em 1em 1em;
| item-name = Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask
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| item-name       = Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask
| quality    = Unique
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| item-level      = 10
| item-level = Level 10 Holiday Hat<br />Holiday Restriction: Halloween / Full Moon
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| item-kind        = Holiday Hat
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| att-1-negative  = Holiday Restriction: Halloween / Full Moon
 
| item-description = Brown paper never looked so mildly disturbing.
 
| item-description = Brown paper never looked so mildly disturbing.
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| item-flags      = Achievement Item: Not Tradable or Marketable
 
}}
 
}}
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{{Quotation|'''The Medic'''|Oktoberfest!|sound=Medic_cheers06.wav}}
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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.
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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 Hallowe'en Special]] Update in 2009.
  
'''Holiday''' restrictions are used on [[items]] to enable players to equip them only for a specific holiday period. Holidays are special events in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', commonly coinciding with a cultural holiday or birthday celebration.
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Equipping an item with a Holiday restriction while that Holiday is not active results in the item simply not appearing in the game world.
  
Items with holiday restrictions will 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.  
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== Holidays ==
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=== Halloween ===
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The Halloween holiday was the first holiday introduced to ''Team Fortress 2'' and has historically taken place in a few days before [[w:Halloween|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 Gift]]s 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 [[ConTracker|Contracts system]].
  
Equipping an item with a Holiday restriction while that Holiday is not active will result in the item simply not appearing in the game world.
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==== Halloween holiday dates ====
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{{Halloween dates}}
  
== Halloween ==
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<sup>†</sup>Holiday was automatically turned on during the 1st of the month.
The first holiday introduced to ''Team Fortress 2'', the Halloween Holiday has historically taken place in the last two weeks of October and the first week of November. When the Halloween Holiday is in effect, [[Haunted Halloween Gift]]s will spawn on [[Mann Manor]] and [[Eyeaduct]].
 
  
=== Past Halloween Dates ===
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==== {{anchor|Halloween restricted items}} Restricted items ====
*2009: October 29 - November 9
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{{Halloween-Full Moon restricted items}}
*2010: October 27 - November 8
 
*2011: October 27 - November 6
 
*2012: October 26 - November 8
 
  
==== Full Moon ====
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=== TF Birthday ===
{{Main|Full Moon}}
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The [[Birthday|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 <code>tf_birthday 1</code> in the [[Dedicated server configuration|server.cfg]] file. The TF Birthday restriction is currently exclusive to [[Noise Maker#TF Birthday|Noise Maker - TF Birthday]].
The Full Moon restriction was introduced with the [[Very Scary Halloween Special|2011 Very Scary Halloween Special]]. All previous items that were restricted to just Halloween were updated to be equippable during both Halloween and Full Moon. The items will be available for use during [[Full Moon]]s according to a formula that closely approximates the lunar calendar, or servers running [[Halloween mode]].
 
  
=== Items restricted to Halloween and Full Moon ===
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==== TF Birthday holiday dates ====
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{{TF Birthday dates}}
  
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<sup>†</sup>Items did not drop in these years.
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| width="70px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="3" | '''{{Class link|scout|br=yes}}'''
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==== Restricted items ====
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Wrap Battler|75px}}
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{|class="wikitable collapsible {{{state|uncollapsed}}}" cellpadding=2 style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Wrap Battler]]'''
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| style="background:#ffbd7e;" rowspan=2 | '''{{Class link|All classes|br=yes}}'''
|-
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| style="background:#ffbd7e;" rowspan=2 | {{item name|Action items}}
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|B-ankh!|75px}}
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| class="gold" | {{icon item|Noise Maker - TF Birthday|64px}}
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[B-ankh!]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Futankhamun|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Futankhamun]]'''
 
|-
 
| width="70px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="4" | '''{{Class link|soldier|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Idiot Box|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Idiot Box]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Steel Pipes|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Steel Pipes]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Shoestring Budget|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Shoestring Budget]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Zipperface|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Zipperface]]'''
 
|-
 
| width="70px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="4" | '''{{Class link|pyro|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Blazing Bull|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Blazing Bull]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Fallen Angel|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Fallen Angel]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Tail From the Crypt|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Tail From the Crypt]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Plutonidome|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Plutonidome]]'''
 
|-
 
| width="70px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="3" | '''{{Class link|demoman|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Hair of the Dog|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Hair of the Dog]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Scottish Snarl|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Scottish Snarl]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Pickled Paws|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Pickled Paws]]'''
 
|-
 
| width="70px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="6" | '''{{Class link|heavy|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Can Opener|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Can Opener]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Soviet Stitch-Up|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Soviet Stitch-Up]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Steel-Toed Stompers|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Steel-Toed Stompers]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Grand Duchess Tiara|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Grand Duchess Tiara]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Grand Duchess Fairy Wings|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Grand Duchess Fairy Wings]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Grand Duchess Tutu|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Grand Duchess Tutu]]'''
 
|-
 
| width="70px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="4" | '''{{Class link|engineer|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Buzz Killer|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Buzz Killer]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Frontier Flyboy|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Frontier Flyboy]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Legend of Bugfoot|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Legend of Bugfoot]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Master Mind|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Master Mind]]'''
 
|-
 
| style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="3" | '''{{Class link|medic|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Einstein|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Einstein]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Dr. Gogglestache|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Dr. Gogglestache]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Emerald Jarate|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Emerald Jarate]]'''
 
|-
 
| width="70px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="3" | '''{{Class link|sniper|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Holy Hunter|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Holy Hunter]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Silver Bullets|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Silver Bullets]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Garlic Flank Stake|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Garlic Flank Stake]]'''
 
|-
 
| style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="3" | '''{{Class link|spy|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Under Cover|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Under Cover]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Griffin's Gog|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Griffin's Gog]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Intangible Ascot|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Intangible Ascot]]'''
 
|-
 
| width="60px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan="10" | '''{{Class link|All Classes|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Spy Mask|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Halloween Masks]]'''
 
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| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Seal Mask|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Seal Mask]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|MONOCULUS!|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[MONOCULUS!]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Boo Balloon|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Boo Balloon]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Dead Little Buddy|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Dead Little Buddy]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Unknown Monkeynaut|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Unknown Monkeynaut]]'''
 
|-
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Voodoo-Cursed Spy Soul|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Voodoo-Cursed Souls]]'''
 
 
|-
 
|-
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| class="nameplate" | {{Item link|Noise Maker - TF Birthday}}
 
|}
 
|}
  
== TF Birthday ==
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=== Smissmas ===
The TF [[Birthday]] celebrates the original release of the [[Team Fortress]] mod, and is activated on August 24th of every year. This Holiday can be enabled on other days on a per server basis by setting <code>tf_birthday 1</code> in the [[Dedicated server configuration|server.cfg]] file.
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The [[Australian Christmas 2011]] Update introduced the Smissmas holiday restriction, formerly known as Winter. This restriction is currently exclusive to [[Noise Maker#Winter Holiday|Noise Maker - Winter Holiday]].
 
 
=== Restricted items ===
 
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="2" style="text-align:center;"
 
| width="60px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan=3 | '''{{Class link|All Classes|br=yes}}'''
 
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{icon item|Noise_Maker_-_TF_Birthday|75px}}
 
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Noise Maker - TF Birthday]]'''
 
|}
 
  
== Winter ==
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==== Smissmas holiday dates ====
The [[Australian Christmas 2011]] Update introduced the Winter holiday restriction.
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{{Smissmas dates}}
  
===Winter Historical Dates:===
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<sup>†</sup>Holiday was automatically turned on during the 1st of the month.
*2011: December 15th - December 31
 
  
=== Restricted items ===
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==== Restricted items ====
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="2" style="text-align:center;"
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{|class="wikitable collapsible {{{state|uncollapsed}}}" cellpadding=2 style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
| width="60px" style="background:#F3A957;" rowspan=3 | '''{{Class link|All Classes|br=yes}}'''
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| style="background:#ffbd7e;" rowspan=2 | '''{{Class link|All classes|br=yes}}'''
| align="center" style="background:#F9D483;" | [[Image:Backpack Noise Maker - Winter Holiday.png|75px|link=Noise Maker#Winter Holiday]]
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| style="background:#ffbd7e;" rowspan=2 | {{item name|Action items}}
| style="background:#FEF5E0;" | '''[[Noise Maker#Winter Holiday|Noise Maker - Winter Holiday]]'''
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| class="gold" | {{icon item|Noise Maker - Winter Holiday|64px}}
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|-
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| class="nameplate" | {{Item link|Noise Maker - Winter Holiday}}
 
|}
 
|}
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== Unused content ==
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* There is an unused variant of the "Halloween / Full Moon" holiday restriction in the game's files that also restricts items to [[w:Valentine's Day|Valentine's Day]].
  
 
[[Category:Items]]
 
[[Category:Items]]

Revision as of 00:38, 26 December 2021

Backpack Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask.png

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 )

Oktoberfest!
The Medic

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 Hallowe'en 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

  • 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
  • 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

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

Restricted items

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

  • 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
  • August 24, 2019
  • August 23, 2020
  • August 23, 2021
  • August 23, 2022
  • August 23, 2023

Items did not drop in these years.

Restricted items

Action items Noise Maker - TF Birthday
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

  • 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
  • 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

Action items Noise Maker - Winter Holiday
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.