Wolf Headdress

Wear it so the server knows you hunt. The headdress is a trophy first: a wolf had to die for it, and everyone you pass at the outpost can see whose head you took. It will not turn you into a tank, so treat it as a hat with a story, not as a helmet.

The cost sits in one ingredient. Ten cloth is a few hemp plants, and a Level 1 workbench is up within the first hour. The wolf skull is the part you earn. Say a wolf charges you on a hemp run at dusk: put it down with a hunting bow, harvest the body, and the skull is yours. The recipe itself is free: every player knows it from the start, so there is nothing to research.

The zodiac masks, from the rat to the dragon, are skins of this headdress: you craft it as usual and pick the mask if you own that skin. The rat and the horse even say in their own text that they replace the headdress. Without the skin, you simply get the wolf.