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Graduation Cap

Armor · ArmorHead4

Graduation Cap is 49th of 202 head pieces by defense, at 120 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.

Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.

Details

Gold Value1000
Weight5
Max Stack1
defense120
hp320
durability1200
Speedy Worker Lv. 1

It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot.

Graduation Cap Crafting Recipe

Cloth×100
Fiber×49
What it really costs, once every sub-recipe is expanded
Work: 240000

Crafting it takes 149 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 100× 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.

RarityItemDefenseHPDurability
0Graduation Cap3080300
1Graduation Cap45120450
2Graduation Cap67180600
3Graduation Cap90240900
4Graduation Cap (this one)1203201200

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.

SchematicRarityWhere it comes from
Blueprint 5 of University Hat4★

Alternatives and Upgrades

Golden Crown matches it exactly at 120 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 Lightz Helmet at 125; below it is Helmet at 120.

Other head pieces at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:

Graduation Cap (4★) — How to Get & Uses | Palworld Database