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{{Map infobox
| developer = Unknown
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  | map-status                = official
| game-type = Mann vs. Machine
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  | map-game-type             = Mann vs. Machine
| file-name = mvm_coaltown
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  | map-file-name             = mvm_coaltown
| map-image = Poster Coal Town.png
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  | map-released              = {{Patch name|8|15|2012}}
| map-environment = Desert
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  | map-released-major        = Mann vs. Machine (update)
| map-health-pickups-medium = 2
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  | map-image                 = Poster Coal Town.png
| map-health-pickups-large = 5
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  | map-environment           = Desert
| map-ammo-pickups-medium = 4
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  | map-setting              = Daylight, sunny
| map-ammo-pickups-large = 8
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  | map-hazards              = [[Environmental_death#Pitfalls|Pitfall]]
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  | map-pickups-health-medium = 2
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  | map-pickups-health-large = 5
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  | map-pickups-ammo-medium   = 4
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  | map-pickups-ammo-large   = 12
 
}}
 
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{{quotation|'''[[Non-player characters#Saxton Hale|Saxton Hale]]'''|Other mining museums may promise guided tours, “employees” and functioning bathrooms, but only Hale’s Coal Town offers the '''authentic''' mining experience! '''Smell''' the coal dust! '''See''' the coal piles! Don’t '''touch''' any of the exposed wiring!}}
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{{Quotation|'''[[Saxton Hale]]'''|Other mining museums may promise guided tours, “employees” and functioning bathrooms, but only Hale’s Coal Town offers the '''authentic''' mining experience! '''Smell''' the coal dust! '''See''' the coal piles! Don’t '''touch''' any of the exposed wiring!}}
  
Coal Town is a map that was released on August 15th, 2012. It is designed for the game mode, [[Mann vs. Machine (game mode)|Mann vs. Machine]]. It was first seen in the [[Mann vs. Machine]] update announcement. The map contains 3 missions: the normal invasion mission [[Crash Course (mission)|Crash Course]], and the advanced invasion missions [[Ctrl+Alt+Destruction (mission)|Ctrl+Alt+Destruction]] and [[CPU Slaughter (mission)|CPU Slaughter]].
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'''Coal Town''' is a [[Mann vs. Machine]] map released in the [[Mann vs. Machine (update)|Mann vs. Machine Update]]. The map contains 6 missions: the Normal mission [[Crash Course (mission)|Crash Course]], the Intermediate missions [[Cave-in (mission)|Cave-in]] and [[Quarry (mission)|Quarry]], the Advanced missions [[Ctrl+Alt+Destruction (mission)|Ctrl+Alt+Destruction]] and [[CPU Slaughter (mission)|CPU Slaughter]], and the Expert mission [[Cataclysm (mission)|Cataclysm]].
  
==Strategy==
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A Halloween-themed nighttime version of this map, [[Ghost Town]], was added in the [[Spectral Halloween Special]]. This version of the map has a single, unique mission: the Nightmare mission [[Caliginous Caper (mission)|Caliginous Caper]].
''See [[Community Coal Town strategy]].''
 
==Trivia==
 
*The "First Mined Piece of Coal" display's description reads: "Seventy-six members died in the excavation of the FIRST MINED PIECE OF COAL at MANN MINING COMPANY, marking a safety record for fewest deaths per ounce of coal in the nation's history."
 
*The "Historic Secretarial Alcove" display's description reads: "Originally staffed by an injured employee unable to work in the mine, the secretarial alcove allowed Bilious Hale to communicate with the nation's four other telephone owners."
 
**It has a telephone there that has a number of contacts listed, these are the President of the United States, Bilious Hale, Redmond & Blutarch Mann and Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.
 
*The "John Wilkes Booth's Death Hat" display shows the [[Towering Pillar of Hats]] with a description that reads: "Following the shootout that killed presidential assassin John "Tower of Hats" Booth, Bilious Hale was awarded Booth's hat for bravely sitting Booth's chest while people shot at him.
 
*The "Steam-Powered Hat Prototype" display shows the [[Full Head Of Steam]] with a description that reads: "Eager to re-ignite the nation's waning interest in coal, Bilious Hale introduced the steam-powered hat in 1921 at the Paris World Fashion Expo. It required 50 pounds of coal per day for it to run."
 
**The term "steam-powered" is a reference to the [http://store.steampowered.com/ Steam Store].
 
*The "Bilious Hale's Hat" display's description reads: "Wearing this hat, Mann Mining Co. owner Bilious Hale would enter mines and punch the coal out of them, while his employees followed bind his windmilling fists with coal-collecting sacks."
 
*The "Historic Storage Closet" display's description reads: "Some say it was Bilious Hale himself who first pointed at this room at said, 'Let us put things here that we do not presently need, until such time as they may be needed.'"
 
*The "Panoramic View Of Coal" display's description reads: "Experience the life of an 1980's coal miner! The sights, sounds and smells of the period come alive in this pile of coal, painstakingly recreated from descriptions of coal piles from years past."
 
  
==Gallery==
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== Locations ==
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=== Hatch Area ===
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The hatch area has two pathways for mercs and four possible pathways for robots.
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*'''Left Side Hotel (Bottom Floor)''': The 'Panoramic View of Coal' is a max health and ammo kits.
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*'''Left Side Hotel (Top Floor)''': Pathway for robot waves. Contains medium health and ammo kits.
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*'''Right Side Mann Mining''': Pathway for robot waves. Contains max health and ammo kits.
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=== Salt Rock ===
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The Salt Rock is the center area of the map.
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*'''Mining Accident Simulator''': Bottomless death pit behind the structure. [[Pyro]]s can [[Compression blast|airblast]] robots into the hole for easy kills.
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*'''Salt Rock Interior''': Entrance inside the building is accessible from the left lane. Contains a lone Max Ammo kit. Excellent for hiding [[Teleporters]]
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*'''Rooftop''': On the left side is a platform for [[Sniper]]s. The right side has a bridge to the right lane catwalks.
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=== Robot Spawn ===
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Robots spawn from the front and sides of the closed mineshaft at the end of the map. On certain waves a [[Tank Robot|tank]] comes out from the mineshaft. Near the spawn is a Sniper vantage point with large ammo boxes on both sides. The robots only have one path they can take until they reach the Salt Rock.
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== Strategy ==
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{{main|Community Coal Town strategy}}
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{{community strategy stub link}}
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== Update history ==
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'''{{Patch name|8|15|2012}}''' ({{update link|Mann vs. Machine (update)}})
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* Added Coal Town to the game.
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'''{{Patch name|9|4|2012}}'''
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* Blocked bots from being blasted into the tank tunnel.
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* Blocked giants from getting stuck under the stairs in the final pit.
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== Bugs ==
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* When standing on the rocks where robots spawn on the left side and switching weapons in the loadout, players respawn at spawn with their new loadout (provided {{code|tf_respawn_on_loadoutchanges}} is set to {{code|1}}).
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== Trivia ==
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* In the description of the "Historic Secretarial Alcove", "Bilious" is misspelled as "Bilius".
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* Preservation of a working coal mine as a museum is not unheard of -- [[w:Big Pit National Coal Museum|one such mine]] is in Wales.
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* The clipboard found on the "Secretarial Alcove" exhibit reads "DO NOT REMOVE FROM PREMISES".
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* There is a large ammo pack and medium health kit located out of bounds. They are both behind the lone medium ammo pack on the top right path.
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== Gallery ==
 
<gallery widths=150px heights=90px>
 
<gallery widths=150px heights=90px>
File:Coal Town base.png | The defenders' base.
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File:Coal Town base.png|The defenders' base.
File:Coal Town left lane.png | The left lane.
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File:Coal Town left lane.png|The left lane.
File:Coal Town right lane.png | The right lane.
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File:Coal Town right lane.png|The right lane.
File:Coal Town bot spawn.png | The place where the bots spawn.
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File:Coal Town bot spawn.png|The place where the bots spawn.
File:Coaltown Hale wall.png | The wall in the "Visitor's Center" spawn with portraits of Barnabas, Bilious and Saxton Hale.
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File:Coaltown Hale wall.png|The wall in the "Visitor's Center" spawn with portraits of Barnabas, Bilious, and Saxton Hale.
File:Coal Town First Mined Piece of Coal.png | The "First Mined Piece of Coal" exhibit.
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File:Coal Town First Mined Piece of Coal.png|The “First Mined Piece of Coal” exhibit.
File:Coal Town secretarial alcove.png | The "Secretarial Alcove" exhibit.
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File:Coal Town secretarial alcove.png|The "Secretarial Alcove" exhibit.
File:Coal Town Historic Storage Closet.png | The "Historic Storage Closet" exhibit.
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File:Coal Town Historic Storage Closet.png|The "Historic Storage Closet" exhibit.
File:Coal Town Panoramic View Of Coal.png | The "Panoramic View Of Coal" exhibit.
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File:Coal Town Panoramic View Of Coal.png|The "Panoramic View Of Coal" exhibit.
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File:Clipboard Model.png|A close-up to the clipboard showing the text.
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File:Coal Town John Wilkes Hat Closeup.png|A close-up of the John Wilkes Hat information.
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File:Coal Town Steam Hat Closeup.png|A close-up of the Steam Powered Hat display case information.
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File:Coal Town Bilious Hale Hat Closeup.png| A close-up of the Bilious Hale Hat display case.
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File:Coal Town Newspaper1.png
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File:Coal Town Newspaper2.png
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File:Coal Town Newspaper3.png
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File:Coal Town Newspaper4.png
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File:Coal Town Newspaper5.png
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File:Coal Town Diorama.png|A small diorama of the map.
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File:Coal Town Sign.png
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File:Mvm coaltown0000.png|Spectator view 1.
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File:Mvm coaltown0001.png|Spectator view 2.
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File:Mvm coaltown0002.png|Spectator view 3.
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File:Mvm coaltown0003.png|Spectator view 4.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
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== See also ==
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* [[Ghost Town]]
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
* [http://www.teamfortress.com/mvm/coaltown/ "Coal Town" official announcement]
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* [https://www.teamfortress.com/mvm/coaltown/ "Coal Town" official announcement]
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Latest revision as of 15:51, 22 February 2024

Coal Town
Poster Coal Town.png
Basic Information
Map type: Mann vs. Machine
File name: mvm_coaltown
Released: August 15, 2012 Patch
(Mann vs. Machine Update)
Variants: Halloween
Developer(s): Valve
Map Info
Environment: Desert
Setting: Daylight, sunny
Hazards: Pitfall
Map Items
Healthico.png Health Kits: Mediumhealth.png ×2  •  
Largehealth.png ×5
Ammoico.png Ammo Boxes: Mediumammo.png ×4   •  
Largeammo.png ×12
Map Photos
Loading screen photos.
Map Overview
Coal Town overview.png
Other mining museums may promise guided tours, “employees” and functioning bathrooms, but only Hale’s Coal Town offers the authentic mining experience! Smell the coal dust! See the coal piles! Don’t touch any of the exposed wiring!

Coal Town is a Mann vs. Machine map released in the Mann vs. Machine Update. The map contains 6 missions: the Normal mission Crash Course, the Intermediate missions Cave-in and Quarry, the Advanced missions Ctrl+Alt+Destruction and CPU Slaughter, and the Expert mission Cataclysm.

A Halloween-themed nighttime version of this map, Ghost Town, was added in the Spectral Halloween Special. This version of the map has a single, unique mission: the Nightmare mission Caliginous Caper.

Locations

Hatch Area

The hatch area has two pathways for mercs and four possible pathways for robots.

  • Left Side Hotel (Bottom Floor): The 'Panoramic View of Coal' is a max health and ammo kits.
  • Left Side Hotel (Top Floor): Pathway for robot waves. Contains medium health and ammo kits.
  • Right Side Mann Mining: Pathway for robot waves. Contains max health and ammo kits.

Salt Rock

The Salt Rock is the center area of the map.

  • Mining Accident Simulator: Bottomless death pit behind the structure. Pyros can airblast robots into the hole for easy kills.
  • Salt Rock Interior: Entrance inside the building is accessible from the left lane. Contains a lone Max Ammo kit. Excellent for hiding Teleporters
  • Rooftop: On the left side is a platform for Snipers. The right side has a bridge to the right lane catwalks.

Robot Spawn

Robots spawn from the front and sides of the closed mineshaft at the end of the map. On certain waves a tank comes out from the mineshaft. Near the spawn is a Sniper vantage point with large ammo boxes on both sides. The robots only have one path they can take until they reach the Salt Rock.

Strategy

Main article: Community Coal Town strategy

Update history

August 15, 2012 Patch (Mann vs. Machine Update)

  • Added Coal Town to the game.

September 4, 2012 Patch

  • Blocked bots from being blasted into the tank tunnel.
  • Blocked giants from getting stuck under the stairs in the final pit.

Bugs

  • When standing on the rocks where robots spawn on the left side and switching weapons in the loadout, players respawn at spawn with their new loadout (provided tf_respawn_on_loadoutchanges is set to 1).

Trivia

  • In the description of the "Historic Secretarial Alcove", "Bilious" is misspelled as "Bilius".
  • Preservation of a working coal mine as a museum is not unheard of -- one such mine is in Wales.
  • The clipboard found on the "Secretarial Alcove" exhibit reads "DO NOT REMOVE FROM PREMISES".
  • There is a large ammo pack and medium health kit located out of bounds. They are both behind the lone medium ammo pack on the top right path.

Gallery

See also

External links