Preventing wearing a helmet

[Pig_ofgold]

Im making a hard challange character that has some really solid upsides and i want the big flailing drawback to them to be they cant wear a helmet. I know its possible since there are some older characters on the workshop that already have this feature. Looking through them though i cant seem to find the tag that prevents it. And i dont know how to go about making the feature from scratch. Any help?

 

I also would like some feedback from people who dont neccisarily have to be advanced at modding because i want to know if there is some big thing im missing that i will need to adress that makes not being able to wear armor prevent progress in the story. As far as i know everything that is benifit from wearing a helmet (like the moonstorm) doesent acctually need you to its just really helpful

[kyupita]

On 6/14/2026 at 9:07 PM, Pig_ofgold said:

Im making a hard challange character that has some really solid upsides and i want the big flailing drawback to them to be they cant wear a helmet. I know its possible since there are some older characters on the workshop that already have this feature. Looking through them though i cant seem to find the tag that prevents it. And i dont know how to go about making the feature from scratch. Any help?

 

I also would like some feedback from people who dont neccisarily have to be advanced at modding because i want to know if there is some big thing im missing that i will need to adress that makes not being able to wear armor prevent progress in the story. As far as i know everything that is benifit from wearing a helmet (like the moonstorm) doesent acctually need you to its just really helpful

I actually have a character that isn't able to wear anything except for specific items that I made a while back, I can share an edited version of my code here.

Spoiler

-- Inside character's prefab file, inside master_postinit

	inst.components.inventory.Equip = function(self, item, old_to_active)
	
	if not item or not item.components.equippable or not item:IsValid() then
		return
	end
	
	if item.components.equippable.equipslot == EQUIPSLOTS.HEAD then
		if inst and inst.components.talker then
			inst.components.talker:Say("I can't wear this.")
		end
		return
	end
	
	return OldEquip(self, item, old_to_active)
	end

 

If you'd like to make it so that they can only wear specific items, the code would like more like this:

Spoiler

-- Inside character's prefab file, inside master_postinit

	inst.components.inventory.Equip = function(self, item, old_to_active)
	
	if not item or not item.components.equippable or not item:IsValid() then
		return
	end
	
	if item.components.equippable.equipslot == EQUIPSLOTS.HEAD and
    	not (item.prefab == "deserthat") -- Change "deserthat" to whatever or keep it as the desert goggles
    then
		if inst and inst.components.talker then
			inst.components.talker:Say("I can't wear this.")
		end
		return
	end
	
	return OldEquip(self, item, old_to_active)
	end

 

One problem with this though as that your character won't be able to pick up hat items and put it in their inventory if its on the ground, which I'm not sure how to fix