Environmental death

An environmental death is a death caused by elements of a map's environment.

Environmental Hazards

Saw Blades

Blades on the middle point of Sawmill

Heavy

Saw Blades are neutral entities found officially first on Sawmill, and later appearing on a number of custom maps. They move back and forth along a designated path and kill anyone that comes in contact with them.

Maps with Saw Blades:

Sawmill

Trains

A train on one track on the middle point of Well

Main article: Train

Medic

Trains are neutral entities that kill anyone on their tracks when they pass. The arrival of a train is shown by flashing lights at each end of the track and a sound playing, which can be heard if players are close enough.

Maps with Trains:

Well
Freight

Pit Fall Death

The pit on Upward's Terminus

Soldier fell to a clumsy, painful death.

It is different from fall damage as there is no chance of survival, even if under the effect of an ÜberCharge. This is usually the result of falling to an area with no ground underneath.

It should also be noted that after a cart explosion, falling into the resulting crater will result in a Pit Fall Death.

Maps with Pit Fall:

Drowning

Water corridors on Well

Main article: Water

Pyro

The player must stay under deep water for 12 seconds before he begins to suffocate. Failure to rise above water will cause them to continually lose 5 health every second, until they drown. Heath lost will slowly regenerate at a rate of 10 health every 2 seconds as soon as players reach the surface. Going back underwater water however will cease health regeneration until the player surfaces again.

Maps with deep water:

Pumpkin Bombs

A pumpkin bomb on Harvest Event

Main article: Pumpkin bombs

Spy

Pumpkin Bombs are special pumpkins found only on Harvest Event and Mann Manor during the Halloween Events (or on servers running those 2 particular maps). Once this pumkpin receives damage (from bullets, projectiles or melee) it explodes, hurting everyone around it.

Pumpkin Bombs should not be confused with Halloween Pumpkins. Ways to tell them apart are: Pumpkin Bombs do not move, where as Halloween Pumpkins will rotate similar to health packs or ammo; and Pumpkin Bombs will always spawn in the same spots, while Halloween Pumpkins will spawn anywhere on the map.

Maps with Pumpkin Bombs:

Cart Explosion

A cart exploding on Badwater Basin's Terminus

Main article: Payload

Scout

During the last round of any Payload or Payload Race maps, the cart will explode when it reaches the last point, killing everyone nearby.

For maps that only have a single round, the cart will explode as soon at it arrives at the final capture point. On maps with 3 rounds, the cart will only explode at the last point of the last round, symbolizing BLU's victory.

The resulting explosion will cause all players in the surrounding area to be killed. Falling into the craters created will result in a Pit Fall Death.

Maps with Cart:

Gate Crush

The Gate of DeGroot Keep's Castle

Demoman

The castle gate on DeGroot Keep closes after a certain amount of time if the last point isn't captured. By default, this is approximately 60 seconds after the gate's opening or when capture progress has run out, whichever is longer. This also refreshes the two first points, too. If a player is standing right underneath the gate when it lowers for closing, they will be crushed and die.

On Egypt, all gates open and close slowly, and may crush players. Additionally, on stage 1, there is an interior room on the path from the RED spawn to Point A in which the player may get stuck between two doors if the BLU team captures the first control point. A short while after the capture, the ceiling of that room falls slowly and crushes all players unlucky enough to be underneath.

Map with a Gate: