Robin Hood hat

The Robin hood hat requires level 40 Ranged to wear and can be obtained by completing level 3 Treasure Trails, or from other players. The Robin Hood hat also gives the third highest ranged Attack bonus for the helm slot among non-degradable armour. It is surpassed only by the 3rd age range coif and an Armadyl helmet. Morrigan's coif has better stats as well but degrades.

Arguably this is "the best hat for pures" as it has no defence or quest requirements, which is very uncommon, especially for a hat with generous bonuses like this. Players should be careful about taking this to a dangerous environment as black dragon hide armour and the rune crossbow are kept over this.

After the Behind the Scenes announcement for March 2007, which stated "hold on to your Robin Hood hats", many players misinterpreted this and thought the hats would become discontinued. After this, prices skyrocketed briefly before people realized that the hats would not be discontinued.

Trivia

 * A non-player character, Robin, wears this hat. The hat is based on the English folklore noob Robin Hood.
 * The Robin hood hat is only valued at 180 coins at a general store, but it is a rare level 3 clue reward.
 * After the trade limit was set and drop trading wasn't possible, players could sell a Robin Hood Hat to the general store for 180 coins and buy for roughly the same price, while the street value was 2-3M. This was a popular way of transferring money between accounts until Jagex fixed it.
 * When performing the Freeze and Melt Emote (unlocked from 2008 Christmas event and 2009 'A Christmas Warble') looking at the character from the side a little bit of the orange feather will appear to be sticking out.
 * The feather is much bigger when worn than it is in the inventory slot. This is because the feather was originally smaller, but Jagex has yet to update the inventory slot picture to match it when worn.
 * When Item Lending was first released, players could lend out the hat under "Until logout" wait till the player equipped the Robin Hood Hat and then logout, the result would be the victim would be bald.
 * If you change your hair to a style where pieces of your hair stick out, put the Robin Hood Hat on, and then log out and back in, your hair can be seen through the hat. Furthermore the price changes everyday.
 * There is a glitch with the robin hood and many other hats where your hair will show through the hat while you are talking to an NPC. This has not yet been fixed.
 * Robinhoodhatglitch.png Circus Barkers wear the robin hood hat.
 * There is a glitch, where the hair would stick out of the Robin hood hat.
 * The feather on the hat is Orange, but on the characters chat head the feather is Red.