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2026.09.09
AdminBug reports 23Suggestions 4Exploits 0Good catch, and the odd half of it — fine on your head, blank in the bag — is what cracked it.
The worn sprite and the inventory icon take two different routes to the screen. The worn frames are looked up by exact filename in the art shipped with the game, so those always worked. The icon instead went through a hand-written list of 'icons we ship locally', and this hat was never added to it, so the game went asking the art CDN — and the four Beginner class hats are precisely the items that CDN does not carry (they come from the Brazilian client, not v83). The picture was sitting in your download the whole time and nothing ever asked for it.
Fix: the hand-written list is gone. The game now reads the actual contents of the icon bundle, so an icon we ship can no longer be routed away from.
Sweeping all 10,748 items in the catalogue the same way turned up two more cases of the same defect:
• all seven Beginner/Adventurer starter equips had it — the four class hats plus Adventurer's Shirt, Pants and Sword.
• all 67 pet items were worse — pet hats and suits, Veso Magnet, Auto HP/MP Pouches, Item Pouch, Pet Collar. For those no icon request was even attempted, so there was not even a failed load to explain the empty square. Also fixed.
This is on the dev branch now, not in the build you are playing, so it will appear in the next published update rather than immediately. When it lands, the hat should show its icon in both the Equipment window and the bag — worth a quick re-check on a pet item too if you have one.
The worn sprite and the inventory icon take two different routes to the screen. The worn frames are looked up by exact filename in the art shipped with the game, so those always worked. The icon instead went through a hand-written list of 'icons we ship locally', and this hat was never added to it, so the game went asking the art CDN — and the four Beginner class hats are precisely the items that CDN does not carry (they come from the Brazilian client, not v83). The picture was sitting in your download the whole time and nothing ever asked for it.
Fix: the hand-written list is gone. The game now reads the actual contents of the icon bundle, so an icon we ship can no longer be routed away from.
Sweeping all 10,748 items in the catalogue the same way turned up two more cases of the same defect:
• all seven Beginner/Adventurer starter equips had it — the four class hats plus Adventurer's Shirt, Pants and Sword.
• all 67 pet items were worse — pet hats and suits, Veso Magnet, Auto HP/MP Pouches, Item Pouch, Pet Collar. For those no icon request was even attempted, so there was not even a failed load to explain the empty square. Also fixed.
This is on the dev branch now, not in the build you are playing, so it will appear in the next published update rather than immediately. When it lands, the hat should show its icon in both the Equipment window and the bag — worth a quick re-check on a pet item too if you have one.