Mannhole

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Mannhole
Koth mannhole.png
Basic Information
Map type: King of the Hill
File name: koth_mannhole
Released: July 24, 2025 Patch
(Summer 2025 Update)
Developer(s): Harlen "UEAKCrash" Linke
Aeon "Void" Bollig
Benjamin "blaholtzen" Blåholtz
Alex "FGD5" Stewart
Al "Square" Rodgers
Norman "Mikusch" Masanek
Juniper
donhonk
Freyja
Map Info
Environment: Urban
Setting: Daylight, sunny
Map Items
Healthico.png Health Kits: Smallhealth.png ×9  •  Mediumhealth.png ×4
Ammoico.png Ammo Boxes: Smallammo.png ×4   •   Mediumammo.png ×8
Map Photos
Loading screen photos.
Map overview
Mannhole overview.png
Map Stamp
Item icon Map Stamp - Mannhole.png
Supporters Leaderboard
Feeling the inner city heat?
Mannhole publicity blurb

Mannhole is a community-created King of the Hill map released during the Summer 2025 Update. It is set within a series of dirty city alleyways and sewers littered with rats. The central control point is designed to resemble a sewer grate. It is the standard version of the custom map Sewer.

Mannhole was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Locations

  • Team Spawns: Each team has a single spawn area inside of an "Alpha Electric" company building. There are 2 above ground exits with one facing toward the point and the other facing a fenced-off loading dock. Down a staircase lies an open sewer entrance with an adjacent path back to the above ground.
  • Team Yard: Directly outside of spawn there is an open area serving as a courtyard to spawn. There are 5 paths branching from this area with 2 leading back into the sewers. There is a medium ammo pack and small health kit against a garage door on the opposite side from the spawn doors. There is also a simple building with a striated entrance and exit leading toward the right path.
  • Sewers: The Sewers are a system of narrow sewage tunnels running underneath the map with openings at several locations. Starting from the spawn entrance there is a path leading to an open area with a water pool and an opening to the left yard area. Turning right leads to a crossroads between the staircase leading back to the Team Yard and continuing down the tunnel. In this section a dropdown from the Apartment Basement and a staircase to the Central Buildings are present. A small health kit lies before an opening into the respective team's Side Areas. Following this path under the control point leads to a lineup of a small health kit with 2 small ammo packs either side of them.
  • Apartment Basements: The right path relative to spawn, this is a small building housing a propane tank with a dropdown into the sewers and a path to mid. There is also a staircase to a corridor leading to the Central Buildings.
  • Loading Docks: The left path relative to spawn, this is a building housing pallets of boxes and barrels. There are 3 exits: one into the sewer's path, one into the side area through a ledge, and one onto a wooden platform overhanging the side area. There is a medium ammo pack and health kit in the center area of the building.
  • Side Areas: These are the concrete areas to the side of Mid. They consist of two levels, the higher with a path directly to Mid and the lower with a small health kit and ammo pack.
  • Central Buildings: These are the buildings adjacent to the central point with a staircase leading up to them. The inside houses a medium ammo pack and health kit with an opening to a balcony. The balcony overlooks part of Mid.
  • Mid: This is the central area where the control point is located. On this level there is a small health kit and medium ammo pack just outside the staircase to the Central Building. There is a staircase leading to the central point with it being from the side areas covered by short wooden walls.

Strategy

Main article: Community Mannhole strategy

Control Point timing

Control Point Multiplier Seconds
Control Point ×1
12 .000
×2
8 .000
×3
6 .545
×4
5 .760


Update history

July 24, 2025 Patch (Summer 2025 Update)

  • Added Mannhole to the game

Trivia

  • This map is named after a manhole, which is a vertical opening into a utility system (such as a sewer) covered by a metal disk.
  • The setting of Mannhole is primarily based on the US cities New York City with some elements of Chicago.[1]
  • The maps Boardwalk and Mannhole take place in the same general area. This is directly alluded to with the city Mannhole takes place in being a part of Boardwalk's skybox.[2]
  • There are small train models littered throughout the map in out of bounds areas.
  • There is a dumpster outside of RED spawn's side exit with a pair of pink and yellow glowing eyes peeking out of them. This is a reference to the character Spamton from the video game Deltarune, who is first encountered in a dumpster.[3]
  • Outside of BLU spawn's side exit is a trash can with Saxton Hale's cargo shorts hanging off the rim and his hat propped up onto the wall, referencing the cover page of Ring of Fired.[4]
  • In an out of bounds area of the Sewers located directly right of the staircase from BLU's Team Yard is a monstrous rat headbanging violently next to a Bog Wizard logo and links.
  • Located directly right of the staircase from RED's Team Yard is a summoning circle surrounding a framed picture of a naked mole rat in a green hoodie. On the back side of this frame is the word "Cousin".
  • In a Sewer tunnel running into BLU's Side Area is a rat playing a children's piano to a crowd of waving rats.
  • There are graffiti tags throughout the map from every developer.
  • There is a piece of graffiti of a rat with its nose hanging over a wall with its hands hanging onto it, referencing the World-war II meme "Kilroy was here".[5]
  • On a cluster of graffiti the names "James" and "Randal" can be found in close proximity to one another in a similar font. This is a reference to the character "James Randal", played by streamer "Spaceboy" when roleplaying in Grand Theft Auto Online.[6]
  • A character named "Brian" can be found on a wanted poster, milk carton, and as a name in a graffiti cluster decal. He is an inside joke among the map's developers about UEAKCrash pronouncing the name of the non-Halloween version of the map Slime (Brine) similarly to "Brian" which had elicited the reply "Who is Brian?".[7]

Gallery

References

  1. Creator confirming the setting inspirations.
  2. Creator confirming the city in Boardwalk's skyline is Mannhole's setting.
  3. Creator confirming the eyes reference
  4. Creator confirming the Ring of Fired reference
  5. Creator confirming the "Kilroy is here" reference.
  6. Creator confirming the "James Randal" reference.
  7. Creator confirming the reference.