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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.

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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

  • 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 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