Purple partyhat

This article is about the item. For the apparel, see Purple Party Hat (apparel).

Purple partyhat may no longer be obtainable (except through trading or reclaiming) but could be re-released in the future. Currently available for .

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Purple partyhat
Release																				24 December 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Lendable																				Yes
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				No
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				A nice hat from a cracker.
Options
Backpack																				Wear
Values
Value																				1 coin
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 51,457,124,499 Reclaim: 51,457,124
Weight																				0.056 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				51,457,124,499 coins (info)
Buy limit																				2
Volume																				0
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Advanced data
Item ID																				1046
Links																				MRID • recipe

The purple partyhat is an item that was originally obtained by opening a Christmas cracker during the 2001 Christmas event. Partyhats are some of the oldest discontinued items in the game, beaten only by the pumpkin. This has resulted in them becoming some of the most expensive items in RuneScape's history, far exceeding the maximum cash value and resulting in them being traded almost exclusively outside the Grand Exchange. Following the update to Grand Exchange and the money pouch, partyhats are once again traded through the Grand Exchange.

Before free trade, the street price was much higher than the GE price, giving the false impression that partyhats sharply rose when free trade was reintroduced. Purple partyhat maintained the cheapest partyhat until mid 2019; by the end of 2019 it had overtaken both yellow and green partyhats in price becoming the 4th most valuable partyhat.

Combat stats

Requirements None Class None Slot Tier None Style attributes   Damage 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accuracy 0 0 0 0 Defensive attributes  Armour 0.0 Reduction  LP 0 PvM 0%  Prayer 0 PvP 0%

15 Days of Christmas

During the 15 Days of Christmas in 2013, this item, along with other Christmas-themed equipment, were given the Hybrid style of combat, and stats that scaled with the player's levels. This was so players could use these items in combat to assist in hunting for festive crackers during the event.

RuneScape Classic

In RuneScape Classic, partyhats were simply called "party hat" with no colour in their name. What is now the purple partyhat was more magenta in colour, but players called it pink. After the release of RuneScape 2, Jagex made a slight colour change to the "magenta" partyhat, and then named it purple partyhat.

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

This item has no currently available sources. Historical and unavailable sources shown below.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Christmas cracker ⌛	N/A	1	10/128

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 9 February 2011 (Update):
  • Party hat variants will now change in price by up to 5% per day, dependent on demand.

• patch 24 June 2010 (Update):
  • Resolved a long-standing issue when wearing party hats with a particular female haircut.

• update 24 December 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The purple partyhat was originally the most expensive of the partyhats, but became the cheapest after the Partyhat duplication glitch.
• Since there was no rollback of the servers after this glitch had been fixed, players who own a purple partyhat will never know if they have a real or duplicated partyhat.