
Graduation Cap
Armor · ArmorHead3★Graduation Cap is 58th of 202 head pieces by defense, at 90 against the 650 of Ancient Helm.
Wearing it also carries the effect Speedy Worker Lv. 1, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot.
Graduation Cap Crafting Recipe
Crafting it takes 100 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 67× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Graduation Cap
Graduation Cap is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Every Tier of Graduation Cap
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 30 to 120, a 4x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Graduation Cap | 30 | 80 | 300 |
| 1★ | Graduation Cap | 45 | 120 | 450 |
| 2★ | Graduation Cap | 67 | 180 | 600 |
| 3★ | Graduation Cap (this one) | 90 | 240 | 900 |
| 4★ | Graduation Cap | 120 | 320 | 1200 |
Schematics That Unlock Graduation Cap
Graduation Cap is not learned from the Technology tree — you need a schematic for it. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| 3★ | — |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Golden Crown matches it exactly at 90 defense — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw defense, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Refined Metal Helm at 100; below it is Helmet at 90.
Other head pieces at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class: