Operation Bolted Barbecue

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It’s that time of year again. The gentle sea breeze... digging holes in the sand... seagulls flying above, looking for the best time to steal an entire hotdog right out of your hands... Sounds nice doesn’t it? Well there’s no time for relaxing now, Soldier! Gray Mann’s army is back with a vengeance, and thousands of robotic abominations are storming across those very beaches as we speak. It’s time to get out there and fight unless you want this to be the last summer you'll ever get! Gray Mann is coming for a lot more than your hotdogs and if you don’t fight back hard and fast, there won’t be any more hotdogs left for those flying beach rats to take...
Operation Bolted Barbecue publicity blurb

Operation Bolted Barbecue is a community-created Mann vs. Machine charity tour organized and hosted by Potato MvM. It entered open beta on June 21, 2025, before officially launching on July 3. The tour is scheduled to conclude on October 15, 2025.

Tour

On June 21, 2025, Operation Bolted Barbecue went into public beta, featuring 56 missions across 30 maps. This included the official maps Bigrock, Mannhattan, and Rottenburg, as well as returning maps from previous community campaigns, and newly featured maps such as Apex, Charon, Electricavenue, Monsoon, Scrapyard, Sand, and Smog.

As the beta period continued, several missions were added to, and removed from the campaign, leading to a grand total of 59 missions across 37 maps.

The tour officially launched on July 3, and another mission was added, totalling 60 missions across 38 maps.

This tour features the return of contracts, previously featured in Operation Canteen Crasher. The contracts awarded Contract Stars for completion of various objectives for each of the nine classes, as well as contracts involving all played classes, and contracts that required the entire team to work together. Contracts featured in this campaign had no bearing on obtaining in-game rewards.

This campaign features a Nightmare mission. These are long endurance missions, each lasting a single extended wave, with a large number of robots. Nightmare missions may have short pauses between subwaves for players to upgrade or push forward; however, there are no permanent checkpoints, and all progress is lost upon failure.

Contracts

The tables below show the contracts that are achievable during the event. Unless otherwise noted, all objective thresholds are cumulative, and tracked throughout all played missions.

Featured Missions

This table shows the missions that were available during the event.

Intermediate Missions
Map Mission Waves Creators
Bigrock Bionic Breach 7 randomguy
Bogland Crocodile Operation StardustSpy
Charon Crash Landing 6 ZombieF1ghter
Orbital Breach Sntr
Coldtown Chilling Clique 7 Dylan_is_legend
Dusk Clanker Conflict 6 Mama Rosalina
Electricavenue Rolling Raccoons Skin King
lite
Flowerfield The Blooming Bulb 5 furuka
Hoovydam Damn Breach 6 ZombieF1ghter
Jungleworks Jungle Bungle Mama Rosalina
Marsbase Martian Civilizations Skirk Queen
Metro Metropolis 5 Mentrillum
Monsoon Weathered Wrecks Crilly
Oilrig Orson Oligarchy 6 randomguy
Sand Solar Solder 3
Smog Hazardous Haze 6 owo Inky
Steep Mnemonic Mechanics
Ventus Vacationvasion 8 Chrstin
Waterfront Corrosion Of Dignity 7 ChristianGuyOfAction


Advanced Missions
Map Mission Waves Creators
Apex Glacial Gantlet 7 Yoovy
Gregarious
Malware Malfunction botrot
Autumnull Steelblock 5 Mudun
Bigrock Breaking Point 8 Package O' Lies
Bogland Dire Mire 6 Retrowave
Mud Maker 7 ZombieF1ghter
Casino City Gangsters Pair Of Dice Skin King
Charon Atmos Quake Sntr
Coastrock Cobalt Cruise 6 Chaos&Mystery
Coldtown 6 Scottish Pentathlon 5 Skirk Queen
Dockyard Jammer Jeopardy 8 botrot
Dusk Til Dawn 6 Skin King
Humbridge Runtime Optimization 7 ♓Seelpit♓
Jungleworks Manntained Machines 6 ZombieF1ghter
Lotus Mechanical Damnation TDN PangaDayWalker
Mannhattan Scorched Skies Yoovy
Monsoon Rolling Thunder 5 Crilly
Quetzal Neotropic Nightmare 7 Mama Rosalina
CFFG. WaxWing
Rottenburg Assault And Battery 6 casey
Scallops Crustacean Cremation CookieCat
Scrapyard Illegal Industry 1010 Skirk Queen
Quantum Processing 4 Mentrillum
Rust Bucket 6 Koi
Trashyard Throwdown 5 Alche_
Sludge Claire De Lune 8 colonel
Smog Respiration Restriction 6 owo Inky
Snowpine Shivering Slumber Chaos&Mystery
Underground Mining Operation 7 ZombieF1ghter
Quartz Quadrant Retrowave
Waterfront Splash Zone Yoovy
Watermine Dig Of Wreckoning 6 colonel


Expert Missions
Map Mission Waves Creators
Doppler Drop Database Devastation 6 colonel
Electricavenue Obsolescence 7 Conga Dispenser
Havana Night Feast 5 Spectλtor™
Jungleworks Agaglobulinemiagenesis Schwabbel
Mentrillum
Mannhattan Ax20 6 Package O' Lies
Rancher Impasse Snurper_Bob
Rottenburg Bx20 7 Package O' Lies
Spacepost Astral Annihilation Crilly
Waterfront Eradication Yoovy


Nightmare Advanced Mission
Map Mission Creators
Charon Oz Terror Lobotomy (Scotch Mist)

Rewards

This event has six medals which are able to be earned by players: three as rewards for participation in the tour, and three for donations to a charity drive benefiting Direct Relief, benefiting aid for the 2025 Southern California wildfires. Clearing any ten missions earns the player the Quintuple Baked Potato medal, clearing any 25 missions earns the player both the Quintuple Baked Potato and Parched Patriot Canteen medals, and clearing any 35 missions earns the player the Quintuple Baked Potato, Parched Patriot Canteen and Barbecued Buster medals.

In addition, players are able to donate varying amounts through item or monetary donations to receive donor medals. Donating at least $5 USD earns the player the Generous Gemstone medal, donating at least $15 USD earns the player both the Generous Gemstone and Star of the Summer Solstice medals, and donating at least $35 USD earns the player the Generous Gemstone, Star of the Summer Solstice, and Heart of the Lake medals.

Content creators whose missions were accepted for use in the event were awarded the Potato of Labor medal.

The Quintuple Baked Potato player medal reuses the model for the Memes vs. Machines Baked Potato, from Operation Memes vs Machines, the Parched Patriot player medal reuses the model for the Canteen Crasher Silver Building medal, from Operation Canteen Crasher, and the Barbecued Buster player medal reuses the model for the Mappers vs. Machines Participant Medal. Each of the donor medals reuse models from Operation Madness vs. Machines: the Generous Gemstone reuse the model for the Hopeful Heart, the Star of the Summer Solstice reuses the model for the Pinnacle of Ingenuity, and the Heart of the Lake reuses the model for the Boundless Heart.

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