Bread

This article is about objects that can spawn when players die or teleport. For other meanings, 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 or die. Several seconds after spawning, the bread prop will disappear. The chance for bread to spawn when teleported is 1/20, with the Soldier being an exception, having a 1/3 chance to spawn bread.^[1] 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.

Trivia

Each type of bread represents each class. Baguette represents Spy, burnt bread represents Pyro, cinnamon-swirl bread represents Demoman, cornbread represents Engineer, crumpet represents Sniper, plain loaf represents Scout, pretzel represents Medic, bread ration represents Soldier, and borodinsky bread represents Heavy.
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 short Expiration Date as mutated sentient bread, and later became a monstrously large tentacled beast.
All bread props can be destroyed with the Short Circuit and are also able to be air-blasted, similar to projectiles.
Before June 17th, 2014, bread appeared very rarely. Then, during the Love & War Update, it started to spawn on every successfull teleporting. Lately it was changed back to just an occasionally appears.