Tin Foil Hat

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A tin foil hat will cause a blockhead to perform actions without player intervention. It was introduced in version 1.2. The purpose of the tin hat is to ease the user of having to command too many blockheads at once. Currently, the maximum number of blockheads able to be warped into a world is five, and sometimes is too much of a hassle to control all five in sync. To ease this problem, the tinfoil hat is used to serve as a blockhead's "autopilot", while it begins to be productive on its own without the user's need of control to be productive, thus easing the user of having to control too many blockheads, and at the same time, being productive with materials.

Tin Foil Hat
Tin Foil Hat

Category	Clothing
Use	Actions
Tool
Stackable	Yes

What a user will do with a blockhead at its disposal, is put that blockhead on meditate where it will sit and so nothing. An alternative is to put a tin foil hat on the blockhead so the blockhead can collect resources by him/her-self while the user is inactive on that blockhead.

A good use for the tinfoil hat is to spawn a blockhead and relocate him far away with a tinfoil hat in the middle of nowhere. From there the blockhead will begin its own life if it can and is useful to analyze what the blockhead will do and how it will advance from there. The blockhead with a tinfoil hat on will collect resources from nearby trees/caves, for the user to "take".

Appearance

A tin foil hat is triangular and silvery (a mottled dark gray to white with some bluish tones).

Where Found

It can be made at a craft bench from three pieces of tin foil. Like other pieces of man-made clothing, it degrades over time when worn.

Location	Input Item 1		Input Item 2		Input Item 3		Input Item 4		Input Item 5		Crafted Output
		+		+		+		+		=
Lvl. 2 Craft Bench	Tin Foil		[[]]		[[]]		[[]]		[[]]		Tin Foil Hat
Quantity	3		{{{Qty2}}}		{{{Qty3}}}		{{{Qty4}}}		{{{Qty5}}}		1

Rush Cost
8
Double-Time
4

Effects

When a blockhead begins to act based on a tin foil hat, blue/light blue particles will emit between the action and the blockhead and the acted upon block will have an image of the Tin Foil Hat superimposed over it. The hat will only plan one action at a time and may abort player-specified actions.

Thus the only "mind control" a tin hat resists is the influence of a player.

Gallery

A blockhead wearing a tin foil hat

Trivia

In the world of Blockheads, the only "mind controller" is the user of the device. When the user gives a blockhead a task, the blockhead will mindlessly follow. With the introduction of the tinfoil hat came the introduction of a unique blockhead quality of 'freewill' for the blockheads, where their mind is not being controlled by a 'god', or The User of the Device.