Where to find your lost hat, horse or weapons

Where to find your lost stuff in Red Dead Redemption 2 – Lost Hat, Lost Horse, Lost Weapons

Red Dead Redemption 2 is chock-full of deep activities and complex systems, which can mean it’s a little confusing to navigate at times. There are also a few nods towards realism that can be a bit of a chore to deal with – especially when you just can’t find what you need. Here’s where to find common things that we’ve seen people lose in Red Dead Redemption 2, including where to find your lost hat, lost horse, and lost weapons.

Where to find your Lost Hat in Red Dead Redemption 2

Whether it’s through violence or plain overexertion, sometimes Arthur’s hat will come flying off of his head. It’s a fun little addition, and one of the many small features that makes RDR2’s physics system amazing.
But wandering around with a naked head looks a little strange in the old west and, if you just can’t find where you lost it, can be a bit annoying.
If your lost hat is in the immediate vicinity, you just need to walk up to it and hold square on PS4 or X on Xbox One.
When your head protector has really gone walkabout though it’s still quite easy to get back with a little help from your horse.
Near your horse, hold the left shoulder button to bring up the item wheel, then press the right shoulder button to get to the horse wheel.

On the horse wheel, you can find the hats that you have stored on your horse (Arthur’s Hat is stored there by default) in the bottom right corner.

Where to find your Lost Horse

In the heat of the moment when you’re tracking some game – or just because of a quest – it’s quite easy to get separated from your horse and move out of whistling range.
There are a few things you can do to find your lost horse though.
If you just don’t know where you’ve left your horse, you can go into the pause menu and select your map. Then if you press square on PS4 and X on Xbox One, you can bring up the index and the second icon down will be Arthur’s Horse. Moving down and selecting that icon will warp your map to where your lost horse is.

Alternatively, if you’re back at camp you can either buy the hitching post upgrade from the Ledger, which lets you call your lost horseback from anywhere. Or you can just go to sleep, and your horse seems to just teleport back to the hitching post.
For more on the different improvements that you buy at camp, check out our guide on how to upgrade your camp in Red Dead Redemption 2.

If you’ve lost your horse because it’s died, then you have to go and get another one from a stable if you don’t own any others.

Where to find your Lost Weapons

Another thing that Red Dead Redemption 2 likes to do is unequip your weapons at every opportunity, leaving you to look for your lost weapons.
Because Arthur can’t carry all of his gear around all the time, you have to re-equip weapons from your horse pretty much every time before you use them.
So if you’ve lost your weapons, they’re probably not really gone, you just need to head over to your horse and hold the left shoulder button to open your weapon wheel.
Then you need to use the Right Stick to hover over where the saddles are on the wheel and press the Right Trigger to choose which weapon to equip.

Lost Legendary Pelt

Another common thing that people are losing are the Legendary Pelts that you get from hunting. Since these are unique items you don’t have to worry, if you die while transporting a Legendary Pelt it’ll be automatically sent to the Trapper so you can craft the unique outfit items.

If you’re struggling to find the Trapper, we’ve got a full guide on the Trapper locations in Red Dead Redemption 2.