Gibs

A Scout gibbing. Clearly noticable are his headset, Ellis' Cap, as well as his regular hat.

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Gibs, or giblets, are the bits and pieces of a player's body that are left after the player has been killed in a specific manner, often explosive in nature. When a player is gibbed, their body parts may be highlighted on the Deathcam. Additionally, the Horseless Headless Horsemann always drops its own unique gibs on death.

The term gibs also encapsulates debris left by destroyed buildings, stickybombs, Electro Sappers, Razorbacks, Guitars, props, and the fallout from the explosion upon the attacking teams' victory on the final stage of a Payload map. "Gib" can also be used as a verb, e.g. "gibbing" someone, meaning reducing an enemy to gibs by blowing them up with a rocket or grenade.

Players can gib themselves on command by entering explode into the console (similar to suiciding by entering the kill command into the console), or by having the command bound to a key.

The server setting tf_playergib can also be used to modify gibbing behavior: when it is set to '0', players will not gib at all, no matter what kills them. When set to '1' (the default setting), gibbing behavior is as normal. Finally, with the setting tf_playergib 2, players will gib when killed by practically any means - be it a backstab, environmental kill, or Shotgun blast.

Causes

Deaths caused by the following will result in the creation of gibs:

• Rockets
• Grenades
• Stickybombs
• Eyelander
• Scotsman's Skullcutter
• Claidheamh Mòr
• Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker
• Half-Zatoichi
• Nessie's Nine Iron
• Engineer's Organ Grinder taunt
• Soldier's Kamikaze taunt
• Demoman's Decapitation taunt
• Ullapool Caber
• Persian Persuader
• Getting killed while wearing the Bombinomicon
• Killing an enemy with a critical hit or mini crit with the Apoco-Fists

List

Deathcam examples

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  Violent gibs

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  Silly gibs

Class gibs

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  Scout

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  Soldier

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  Pyro

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  Demoman

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  Heavy

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  Engineer

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  Medic

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  Sniper

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  Spy

Generic gibs

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  A generic organ, the most common of gibs.

Silly gibs

Birthday mode servers and censored versions of Team Fortress 2 have completely different types of gibs. They can also be enabled client-side with the -sillygibs launch option.

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  Balloon Dog

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  Bolt

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  Boot

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  Hamburger

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  Can

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  Alarm Clock

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  Rubber Duck

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  Fish

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  Gear 1

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  Gear 2

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  Gear 3

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  Gear 4

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  Gear 5

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  Hubcap

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  License plate

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  Spring 1

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  Spring 2

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  Wind-up teeth

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  Tire

Debris gibs

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  Destroyed Dispenser

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  Destroyed Level 1 Sentry Gun or Combat Mini-Sentry

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  Destroyed Level 2 Sentry Gun

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  Destroyed Level 3 Sentry Gun

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  Destroyed Teleporter

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  Broken Electro Sapper

Horseless Headless Horsemann gibs

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  Horseless Headless Horsemann's gibs

Related achievements

 Soldier

Spray of Defeat Use a grenade to gib a player. Frags of our Fathers Gib 1000 people.

Gore-a! Gore-a! Gore-a! Provide the enemy with a freezecam of you taunting over 3 of their body parts.

 Engineer

Death Metal Pick up 10,000 waste metal from pieces of destroyed buildings.

Update history

June 17, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Scouts now have a 1 out of 100 chance of having a flying dove spawn when killed via gibbing

July 26, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a bug that would cause team-painted wearable gibs to show an incorrect color

September 6, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a client crash related to breakables/gibs

Bugs

• Notification boxes that label the body part appear on censored gibs, even in the censored versions of Team Fortress 2.
• The Engineer's right hand gib will always be his glove, even when the Gunslinger or Short Circuit is equipped.
  • The Combat Mini-Sentry deployed by Gunslinger Engineers uses the same gibs as a destroyed Level 1 Sentry Gun.
• Gibs, like the ÜberCharge textures, with the exception of the Soldier's on BLU, do not show the class' final designs. For example, a gibbed Scout has a different shoe design and his socks have stripes.
• If a player wearing a hat is gibbed, their hat will either disappear or appear alongside the default hat in the player's gibs.
• Even with silly gibs turned on, a kill with any weapon capable of decapitation will cause a head gib to appear.

See also

• Death
• Ragdoll