Have you always been frustrated by useless duplicate items in Team Fortress 2? Do you curse the sky when you get your seventh Axtinguisher? Well you won’t anymore!

Introducing TF2‘s new crafting system. No longer will you chuck duplicate items or just let them take up space in your inventory. Now each weapon will produce precious Scrap Metal that you can use to create new items. These items will be based off blueprints, some of which you’ll receive from the get-go while others you’ll have to discover.

Though, the official page says it best:

Think of blueprints as recipes, but instead of making Chicken Cordon Bleu, they makes guns! And hats! And Sandviches, which in retrospect would have helped our analogy better if we’d mentioned that first.

Even hats can be incorporated into crafting, though we’re not entirely sure how that’ll work. Perhaps your extra fedora will make the handgrip for the Huntsman or something. I suppose we won’t find out till the update comes.

[Via: Team Fortress 2]