Bread

This article is about objects that can spawn when players die or teleport. For other uses, see Bread (disambiguation).

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Full of bugs. Smells like fish and old milk. Was eighteen dollars for some reason. Now it's... I don't know, a dollar? Free? — Mann Co. advertisement for Eighteen-dollar bread

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Bread is an object that occasionally appears when players teleport. Several seconds after spawning, the bread prop will disappear. The chance for bread to spawn when teleported is 1/20 with a hardcoded exception for Soldier, for who the chance is 1/3 (in reference to Expiration Date). There are currently nine different bread models which will appear randomly. Bread related weapons were one of the main focuses of the Love & War Update.

Update history

June 11, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Bread now occasionally spawns when using a Teleporter.

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

• Map Fixes.
  • Updated pl_upward.
    • Fixed physics debris triggering the Payload cart's finale explosion.

[Unknown Date]

• Reduced chance to spawn bread on teleporting or death.

Notes

• All bread props can be destroyed with the Short Circuit and can also be air-blasted, similar to projectiles.

Trivia

• Each type of bread represents each class. Plain loaf represents Scout, bread ration represents Soldier, burnt bread represents Pyro, cinnamon-swirl bread represents Demoman, borodinsky bread represents Heavy, cornbread represents Engineer, pretzel represents Medic, crumpet represents Sniper, and baguette represents Spy. This is backed up by a list found in the source code, containing filenames for all 9 types of bread alongside comments of which class each type of bread is for.
• Bread was hinted at multiple times before its appearance in the game itself:
  • Bread was first mentioned in the Lecture Valley page.
  • Bread was also shown on the Adult Swim Extravaganza blog post. In the top right corner directly above the Scout, a pair of baguettes are visible.
  • The icon for the Summer Appetizer Crate contains two baguettes.
  • The Two Cities Update page for Rottenburg shows Archimedes flying away with a pretzel.
  • One of the RED Team's affiliated companies is RED Bread, which was prominently featured as RED team's cover in the Expiration Date short.
• The plain bread loaf appeared in the Expiration Date short as mutated sentient bread, and later became a monstrously large tentacled beast.
• Before June 17th, 2014, the date the Love & War Update was announced, the rate at which bread spawned during teleportation was quite rare. During the Update, the spawn rate was seemingly increased to 100%. As of late, it appears to have been reverted to a low spawn rate.

Unused content

• Texture filename strings were found listed in the texture_preload_list.txt file added in the October 28, 2015 Patch, hinting at 3 bread types that were scrapped; bagged bread, robo-bread and shortbread.
  • tf/materials/models/weapons/c_items/c_bread_bagged.vtf
  • tf/materials/models/weapons/c_items/c_bread_bagged_normal.vtf
  • tf/materials/models/weapons/c_items/c_bread_robo.vtf
  • tf/materials/models/weapons/c_items/c_bread_shortbread.vtf
  • tf/materials/models/weapons/c_items/c_bread_shortbread_normal.vtf

Gallery

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  Plain loaf (Scout).

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  Slice of bread ration (Soldier).

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  Burnt slice of bread. Only one side is burnt (Pyro).

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  Slice of cinnamon-swirl bread (Demoman).

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  Loaf of Borodinsky bread (Heavy).

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  Cornbread (Engineer).

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  Pretzel (Medic).

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  Crumpet (Sniper).

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  Baguette (Spy).

See also

• Bread monster