Items Guide: Top Hat and Beyond

Equipping items onto units is one of The House TD 2's core systems - the developer's own description lists 'Equip items to your units to power them up' as a headline feature. The catch: in the current early beta almost no item data is public. One item is fully confirmed, and it happens to be free. Here is what is known and how to work the system meanwhile.

Step-by-Step

1. Get the Top Hat first: invite one friend into the game and the Top Hat is yours - it raises the damage of ALL your units by 5%. As a squad-wide permanent multiplier, it is currently the best confirmed item in the game and costs nothing.
2. Read effects before equipping: item text states what each piece actually does. Match items to a unit's job - damage items on your carry, utility on support - rather than stacking everything on one favorite.
3. Think in multipliers: a percentage buff on a unit that already does heavy lifting beats the same buff parked on a bench-warmer. Your Kitty carry or Duchess deserves the good slots.
4. Expect the item pool to grow: no complete item table, rarity system or drop-source list has been published anywhere - not even the community wikis have one. Treat any site listing full item stats as unverified.
5. Re-check your setup after every update (last: August 16, 2026): early-beta item balancing is volatile and an equipped item's numbers can silently change.

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