Golden Wrench

Golden Wrench
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Kill Icon
Basic Information
Used by:	Engineer
Slot:	Melee
Released:	July 1, 2010 Patch
Availability:	Distributed (expired)
Tradable:	No
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	No
Medieval:	Yes
Available Qualities
Unique
Loadout Stats
The Golden Wrench 1 - 100 Imbued with an ancient power Wrench no. [#]

“

That there is a gold-plated kill! Click to listen — The Engineer

”

The Golden Wrench is a distributed melee weapon unique to the Engineer. It is similar to a regular Wrench, but the majority of it is made out of Australium.

This weapon is identical to the default Wrench in terms of damage, critical hit chance, and animations. Its distinguishing feature, however, is that enemies killed by it will turn into motionless golden statues of pure Australium instead of ragdolls, similiar to the Saxxy. This gold effect applies to jiggle bones which freeze in place.

This weapon was a promotional feature of the Engineer Update. Players were informed that every time a craft was made, there was a chance of a Golden Wrench being awarded. Only 100 Golden Wrenches were available at the time, and the ability to smelt reclaimed metal back into scrap metal and refined metal back into reclaimed metal was suspended during this time to prevent continual crafting. After each 25 Golden Wrench milestone, a new section of the Engineer Update would be released.

Switching from this weapon to a different melee weapon will destroy all existing buildings.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage

Identical to: Wrench

Damage and function times
Damage
Base damage	100%	65
Point blank		55-75
Critical		195
Mini-crit		75-101
Damage repaired per hit		105
Upgrade amount per hit		25
Metal cost per repairing hit		1 + damage / 5
Metal cost for reloading ammo		1 / bullet 2 / rocket salvo
Function times
Attack interval		0.8 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related achievements

 Engineer

Built to Last Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed. Circle the Wagons Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players. Doc, Stock, and Barrel Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic. Fistful of Sappers Destroy 25 sappers on buildings built by other team members. Get Along! Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.

Land Grab Help a teammate construct a building. Quick Draw Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds. Rio Grind Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer. Silent Pardner Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members. The Wrench Connection Kill a disguised spy with your Wrench.

Update history

July 1, 2010 Patch

• [Undocumented] The Golden Wrench was added to the game.

July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)

• [Undocumented] The Golden Wrench could no longer be randomly found via crafting.

October 6, 2010 Patch

• The unique number for each weapon is fixed; previously it did not show correctly.

October 8, 2010 Patch

• The weapon is now nameable using a Name Tag.

February 3, 2011 Patch

• Engineers who hit teammate Sentry Guns with their Wrench now get kill assists from that Sentry Gun.

February 14, 2011 Patch

• Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).

June 8, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added a new hit sound effect to the Golden Wrench.

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)

• Added a previously unused kill line for this weapon.
• Fixed gold ragdolls playing custom death animations when they should be locked in a pose

Bugs

• If a Spy's Dead Ringer is triggered by the Golden Wrench, he will see his own death message even though he normally would not.

Trivia

• The Golden Wrench was originally indicated in the material file with an encrypted message that could be translated.
• Any time someone received a Golden Wrench, a message would be broadcast to all players connected to every server at that moment followed by the Announcer saying "Success". Likewise, a message is displayed to all players if a Golden Wrench owner deletes their Wrench followed by the Announcer saying "Failure". This is still in effect even after the Engineer Update.
• The Golden Wrench is a reference to Template:W, who gained the ability to transform whatever he touched into solid gold. This is further shown with the Engineer referencing to the "Midas Touch" when a kill is made with the Golden Wrench.
• On August 31 2010, 14 Golden Wrenches were destroyed as part of the Golden Charity event in support of Child's Play.
• Erik Johnson said in a PC Gamer interview: "That would have been awesome, if the whole TF2 community had the chance to find the broken pieces of the Golden Wrench and restore them. That whole event is going to carry forward in some way."
• Player Vulcnor, upon winning a charity auction for Child's Play, received Golden Wrench No. 101 along with one of every other game item.
• Originally, the killfeed for the Golden Wrench would blend in with the white background if a player was to kill/be killed by a Golden Wrench, this was updated by changing the player-specific killfeed to have the Golden Wrench have a black handle, as seen in the killicon picture above, and have the original killfeed stay the same.

Gallery

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  First-person view.

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  The message broadcast when a player finds a Golden Wrench.

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  The message broadcast when a player deletes a Golden Wrench.

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  Scout statue

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  Soldier statue

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  Pyro statue

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  Demoman statue

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  Heavy statue

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  Engineer statue

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  Medic statue

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  Sniper statue

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  Spy statue

See also

• Golden Wrench strategy
• List of Golden Wrench owners