Baseball Cap

Keep it on your head until something better is ready, then drop it without a second thought. The cap only holds the slot: five cloth, no bench, a blueprint tied to owning the item on Steam rather than to research, and by its own text just basic protection from damage and cold.

That price changes how you play the first night. Say you die on the road to the nearest monument and wake up on your sleeping bag. Fifteen seconds in the crafting menu and your head is covered again, the same as your face with a bandana. Nobody grieves a lost cap.

Swap it out as soon as a little scrap comes in. A wood armor helmet needs no workbench either, only wood and cloth, and it is made to take hits. Later the coffee can helmet at a Level 2 bench does that job properly. When the cap comes off for good, drop it in a recycler and take some cloth back.