Badge

Badges are equipable items in A Hat In Time. They are used to unlock different abilities or augment existing ones. This means that players are able to create their own play styles, by swapping different badges for different abilities. The badges one has equipped show up on the in-game hat as pins.

About

Most badges are often sold by the Badge Seller for Pons, but some are found out in the world or sold by other characters. While most of them have positive traits, some of them have negative effects for players who want a challenge or purely cosmetic changes.

At the start of her adventure Hat Kid can equip only one badge. To equip multiple badges, one must purchase Badge Pins first. The first pin can be bought after getting 3 Time Pieces, and the second after getting 15, allowing Hat Kid to have up to three badges equipped at a time.

List of Badges

Name	Image	Type	Description	Location
Projectile Badge		Action (Useful)	"Hold and release your attack button for a beam attack!" Hat Kid's melee attack now also has a beam attack that can be charged to three levels by holding down the attack button.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 300 pons after getting 4 Time Pieces.
Camera Badge		Action (Useful)	"Press [KEY] to take pictures of your journey!"	Found on an island near the Tourist in Mafia Town.
Fast Hatter Badge		Automatic (Useful)	"Significantly reduce the cooldown when using hats!" You don't have to wait as long to re-use a hat's ability (such as the Dweller Mask) while this badge is equipped.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 250 pons after getting 8 Time Pieces.
Hookshot Badge		Action (Useful)	"Press and hold attack to swing from hooks!" With this badge you can now hook to and swing from certain points. This badge is required to access some of the time pieces.	Found in The Subcon Well.
Hover Badge		Automatic (Useful)	"Automatically pull out your umbrella before deadly impact!" If Hat Kid falls from a height that would damage her, she pulls out the umbrella at the last moment to instantly slow down her falling speed and cause her to not take fall damage.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 100 pons.
Item Magnet Badge		Automatic (Useful)	"Automatically attract nearby collectibles!" Items such as Pons and Heart Pons will be drawn to you and collected as long as you're close enough to them.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 50 pons. Alternatively, found in the Subcon Ruins of the Subcon Forest.
Mumble Badge		Automatic (Cosmetic)	"Plugs your ears, now you only hear vague mumbling!" Changes all character speech to mumbles, as promised in the kickstarter campaign. Text is unchanged. This was inspired by the mumbles in the Banjo-Kazooie series.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 800 pons.
No Bonk Badge		Automatic (Useful)	"No more bonking against walls when diving!" You no longer rebound when hitting a surface after diving, and instead begin a wall run.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 150 pons after getting 5 Time Pieces.
Compass Badge		Automatic (Useful)	"Shows a map towards nearby relics!" A small red arrow appears above Hat Kid when near a relic or other important collectibles.	Sold by the Mafia Boss for 400 pons.
Scooter Badge		Automatic (Useful)	"Upgrades your Sprint Hat to a scooter!" Changes the effect of the Sprint Hat, giving Hat Kid a scooter to ride around in. The scooter has higher acceleration, turning, and can jump, although a double jump cause the scooter to disappear.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 500 pons.
1-Hit Hero Badge		Automatic (Challenge)	"You die in one hit. Only for the brave!" Your healthbar is always at 1, so you die upon taking damage. In the Nyakuza Metro DLC, even though it is possible to increase health beyond max using food combos, your health will not increase beyond 1 while using this badge.	Sold by the Badge Seller for 500 pons after getting 6 Time Pieces.

Seal the Deal Exclusive Badges

Name	Image	Type	Description	Location
Mirror Badge		Automatic (Cosmetic)	"Dnuora Gnihtyreve spilf" Flips the screen as if you were looking into a mirror.	Complete Rift Collapse: Deep Sea
Nostalgia Badge		Automatic (Cosmetic)	"Everything is better when its worse!" Reduces the graphical settings to make everything look like a game on the Nintendo 64.	Complete Zero Jumps

Nyakuza Metro (DLC) Exclusive Badges

Name	Image	Type	Description	Location
Peaceful Badge		Automatic (Cosmetic)	"Experience Peace and Tranquility whenever you dance!" Adds the same filter used on the Peace and Tranquility screen of Death Wish when using the dance action.	Sold by a Nyakuza thug for 200 Pons.
Retro Badge		Automatic (Cosmetic)	"Glorious 2-bit action!" Adds a filter to the game that makes everything look like a game on the GameBoy.	Sold by a Nyakuza thug for 200 Pons.
REDtro VR Badge		Automatic (Cosmetic)	"My eyes hurt." Adds a red filter that makes everything look like a game on the Virtual Boy.	Sold by a Nyakuza thug for 200 Pons.

Achievements

Image	Name	Description	Hints
	360 - No Feet	Do a 360 flip on the scooter!	This achievement can be done on the floor, but is made easier with a cliff to fall off.
	Badge Master	Equip 3 badges!	This achievement requires two 'Badge Pin' items, bought from the Badge Seller after getting 3 and 14 Time Pieces respectively.
	Fan-Tastic!	Hook onto a ceiling fan with the hookshot!	The fan in the Main Hall works well for this.
	One Punch	Defeat any boss with the 1-hit hero badge equipped!	This achievement will not unlock when beating Your Contract Has Expired, or Barrel Battle.
	Put a Badge On It	Put on your first badge!	You can get the Camera badge for free and get this achievement without spending any Pons.

Gallery

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  Art by Shane Frost, Character Designer for A Hat in Time, depicting the scrapped Snatcher Badge.

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  Scrapped Owl's Brew Badge, later became the Brewing Hat.

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  Concept for the Owl's Brew Badge.

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  Owl's Brew projectile.

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  Concepts for the scrapped Electro-Badge.

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  Projectile Badge concept.

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  Badge flair concept.

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  Badge flair concept.

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  UI graphics, featuring scrapped badges.

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  Concepts for the scooter.

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  Scooter turnaround.

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  Hookshot concept.

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  The Yetee's Nostalgia Badge and Mirror Badge pins.

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  Fangamer's Scooter Badge pin set.

Trivia

• The license plate of Hat Kid's scooter reads "H3T K1D 06."

• Equipping any filter badges together adds a rainbow, wavy, and inverted effect to the screen instead of combining their normal effects.

• The Hover Badge was originally a hat called the Floating Hat. The game still has text and yarn for this hat.
  • The badge originally allowed you to float midair and gain height, and the game still had code for this in the release build.

• Badges originally used a "Badge Points" system, identical to yarn in terms of mechanics. Badge Points (or, earlier, Badge Parts) would have to be collected in order to combine them into usable badges, which could be found around the stages instead of being purchased directly from the Badge Seller.
  • In fact, the yarn system was built off of this. When collecting yarn, the game still internally calls for how many "Badge Points" are required to stitch a new hat.

• Originally, the Camera Badge and the Hookshot Badge would have been equippable items, but were made into badges after the beta.
  • With the previous "item" system, it would have meant they couldn't be used at the same time.