Padded Hats

Overview

Padded Hats are a custom crafting category available in the Tailoring menu. They solve a long-standing problem in Ultima Online: cloth hats look great but carry no armor properties, while leather caps have stats but limited style options. Padded Hats give you the appearance of a cloth hat with the armor properties of leather. This means they can be crafted with Runic Sewing Kits to roll magical properties, just like any other leather armor piece.

In short, Padded Hats let you look the way you want without sacrificing your head slot stats.

Crafting

Padded Hats are found under the "Padded Hats" category in the Tailoring craft menu. To craft one, use a Sewing Kit (or a Runic Sewing Kit for magical properties) and have the required materials in your backpack.

All Padded Hats require:

4 Leather (any tier — regular through Ethereal)
10 Cloth

Since these are leather-based items, the leather type you use determines the base resistances, just like crafting any other leather armor. Using higher-tier leathers such as Barbed, Daemonic, or Ethereal will produce hats with stronger base resists.

Available Styles

Hat Style	Min Skill	Max Skill
Padded Floppy Hat	50.0	80.0
Padded Skull Cap	60.0	90.0
Padded Bandana	60.0	90.0
Padded Cap	60.0	90.0
Padded Wide Brim Hat	60.0	90.0
Padded Straw Hat	60.0	90.0
Padded Tall Straw Hat	60.0	90.0
Padded Wizard's Hat	60.0	90.0
Padded Bonnet	60.0	90.0
Padded Feathered Hat	60.0	90.0
Padded Tricorne Hat	60.0	90.0
Padded Jester Hat	60.0	90.0
Padded Flower Garland	60.0	90.0
Padded Kasa	60.0	90.0

The Padded Floppy Hat is slightly easier to craft at 50.0 minimum skill. All other styles require 60.0 Tailoring.

Using Runic Sewing Kits

The real power of Padded Hats comes from crafting them with a Runic Sewing Kit. When you use a runic kit instead of a regular sewing kit, the hat rolls random magical properties just like any runic-crafted leather armor piece. This can include bonuses to resistances, stat increases, skill bonuses, and other item properties.

Since cloth hats normally cannot receive these properties, Padded Hats are the only way to get a runic-quality hat in styles like the Wizard's Hat, Tricorne, or Jester Hat.

Tips

Use your best leather. The leather tier sets the base resists. Pair high-tier leather with a runic kit for the strongest possible hat.
Fashion with function. Pick the hat style that matches your character's look — the stats come from the leather and runic kit, not the shape.
The Padded Floppy Hat is a good practice piece at 50.0 skill if you're still building your Tailoring up.
Cloth is easy to obtain. You need 10 cloth per hat, which can be cut from bolts of cloth purchased cheaply from NPC tailors.
These are dyeable. Like other leather armor, Padded Hats can be dyed to match your outfit.