Far Far West Skins: Full List, Prices, and Event Cosmetics

Two things confuse people about Far Far West cosmetics, and both are the game's fault rather than theirs.

The first is that the shop is a building in town with a hat on it, not a menu tab, so players spend their first hour looking for a UI element that does not exist. The second is the Pumpkin Jack skin, which has been attached to a playtest, a promo code, and a Halloween event at different points in its life, and which is also the name of an unrelated game that Far Far West is currently bundled with.

This page sorts both out.

Where skins live

Everything cosmetic happens at the Rootin' Tootin' Shack (some sources call it the Shop) in the town hub, marked with a white cowboy hat icon. There you buy gold skins, claim challenge skins you have already earned, and equip anything you own — swapping is free once unlocked.

The count of skins moves with events — sources list 20, 21, or 22 depending on when they checked. Treat any "complete list" as a snapshot, including this one.

The gold and challenge skins

Prices below are reported consistently across four or more independent skin guides for the same build family. Re-check at the counter before saving for something.

Three of these are worth planning around.

Marauder is the fastest grind on the list if you farm it deliberately — the Desert map's first Dr. Spark quest spawns Marauders at the objectives, so you can repeat a short mission instead of hunting randomly.

Gravekeeper is the only skin that makes you play every region. Thirty graves across eight maps is roughly four per map, and the grave routes are documented per region — Redwood's ten are covered on /zones/redwood-map.

Definitely Not Cryptic is not a challenge, it is a lifestyle. 25,000 kills will happen eventually if you keep playing; do not build a plan around it.

Note also that Otto's questline does not unlock a region, despite being listed beside the region unlocks in several guides. It is a license-exam chain — written test, riding test, parkour course — and its reward is the Flash McEquine mount skin, reported by one source.

The Halloween event cosmetics

The Fear Fear West event runs October 22 – November 12, 2026 and uses a separate currency: Haunted Candles.

How you earn candles: collect three temporary resources and brew them in the cauldron behind the lobby train.

Contract icons on the mission board show which ingredients a map offers, and each contract carries up to two of the three. Reported cauldron requirements are 9 pumpkins, 9 feathers, 3 skulls for a batch of candles.

What candles buy:

After November 12, unlocked cosmetics stay yours. Anything you missed becomes purchasable with Gold at four times the normal category price, and leftover candles convert to 2 Souls each. The three new female character skins added in the same patch are not event-bound and remain available.

The Pumpkin Jack situation, explained

This is the single most-searched skin in the game and the answer has three layers.

Layer one: the old route is closed. Pumpkin Jack was originally tied to the playtest period and a promo code redeemed at the ghost cowboy's shed above the town firing range. Those codes no longer work. Any guide still printing one is out of date.

Layer two: it came back. The Halloween event lists Pumpkin Jack as one of its three character skins, purchasable with Haunted Candles. That is the current route, and it is time-limited.

Layer three: after the event. Per the official notes, missed event cosmetics become Gold purchases at four times the category price. That is not cheap, but it is not gone either — which is a better outcome than the "unavailable forever" status most guides still describe.

One clarification that saves people money: the "Far Far West x Pumpkin Jack" bundle on Steam is a game bundle pairing this title with the unrelated platformer Pumpkin Jack. It does not contain a skin. Buying it will not unlock the cosmetic.

Do skins do anything?

No. They are cosmetic only, they persist through prestige, and they do not affect hitboxes or stats. The one adjacent system that is not cosmetic is the mount, which is a traversal tool — and mount skins are separate purchases, including the event's Ghost mount.

If you are deciding what to spend gold on, upgrades beat cosmetics every time early on. /weapons/weapon-upgrades-guide explains why, /guide/bounty-hunting-guide covers where the gold comes from, and /guide/xp-tickets covers the other thing your currency competes with. For the full patch history behind the current shop, see /guide/patch-notes.

The short version

Buy gold skins at the Rootin' Tootin' Shack. Grind Marauder and Gravekeeper deliberately, ignore the 25,000-kill skin. Pumpkin Jack is a Halloween reward now, then a four-times-price gold purchase — and the bundle named after it contains a different game.