Getting "bagged-in" by another player involves them deploying a sleeping bag and holding E on it to bring up the "give bag" interface, and finding your nickname in the menu to give you ownership of it. You either have to be on their friend's list, or have sent a message in the server chat recently to appear on the "give bag" interface.

The interface is notoriously slow to open, and if you've given a Steam friend a nickname then they only appear under that nickname.

A sleeping bag can only be set to one player at a time, and only that player has the power to change the ownership. It's common for a player to bag a teammate in, and when the teammate spawns, the spawned player hands ownership back to the original owner.

Sleeping bags have a cooldown timer when placed (or used to spawn), which removes the ability to spawn on it again until the timer expires. The term "insta-bag" refers to the ability to instantly spawn a teammate on a sleeping bag, by transferring one to a friend that doesn't have an active cooldown timer.

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