The Homewrecker is a community-made melee weapon for the Pyro. It is a large, two-handed sledgehammer.
When wielded, this weapon deals double damage to enemy Engineer's buildings. The Homewrecker is also able to destroy an Electro Sapper attached to a friendly building with a single swing. Unlike the Engineer's melee weapons, the Homewrecker cannot repair damaged buildings. Additionally, the Homewrecker will deal 25% less damage to enemies.
As buildings are now more reinforced against damage from the Flamethrower, the Homewrecker is a more suitable weapon for destroying Dispensers and Teleporters quickly. Its damage is capable of destroying a Mini-Sentry in one hit, and any other unattended building in two. A normal Sentry Gun proves to be the most difficult building to destroy due to knockback and continual fire, particularly when protected with the Wrangler. A Pyro aided by a Medic is able to take down most Sentry Guns, especially with an ÜberCharge.
Damage and function times
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| Damage
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| Base damage
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100%
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49
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| Point blank
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Players: 42-55
130
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| Critical
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146
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| Mini-crit
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66
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| Function times
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| Attack interval
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0.8
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| Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
As a Crafting Ingredient
Related Achievements
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Clearcutter
Kill 6 people with your axe in one life.
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Lumberjack
Kill 3 people with your axe in one life.
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Update history
March 18, 2010 Patch (First Community Contribution Update)
- The item was added to the game.
May 7, 2010 Patch
May 12, 2010 Patch
- [Undocumented] Added crafting blueprint for this weapon.
May 27, 2010 Patch
November 19, 2010 Patch
- [Undocumented] The Homewrecker is now capable of removing Electro Sappers from both ends of a Teleporter with a single swing.
December 21, 2010 Patch
- [Undocumented] The weapon was added in the crafting blueprint for the Claidheamh Mòr.
February 14, 2011 Patch
- Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
March 15, 2011 Patch
- [Undocumented] The Eyelander in the Homewrecker's crafting blueprint is replaced with a Scrap Metal.
Trivia
- While the Homewrecker was submitted with the name "Sledgehammer", the Homewrecker's original skin name was Mr Sledge, and was available as one of the skins for the Axtinguisher.
- The Homewrecker was accidentally added to the drop system a day earlier as "Unknown Item 153". At that time, the item could be acquired through the random drop system, but not found in the backpack without the help of an external item manager. Approximately 1200 players found the item, but it did not drop into the backpack until the item was officially implemented on March 18. When moved into the backpack before this, the item took the placeholder icon of the Bottle.
- Template:Dictionary/steam ids/69195570, creator of this weapon, also created one of the winning item sets for the Polycount Pack, the Tank Buster. He is also responsible for all of the weapons and hats featured in the Shogun Pack.
Gallery
See also
 Pyro |
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Fire Axe ( Frying Pan, Saxxy, Conscientious Objector, Freedom Staff, Bat Outta Hell, Memory Maker, Ham Shank, Golden Frying Pan, Necro Smasher, Crossing Guard, Prinny Machete) · Axtinguisher ( Postal Pummeler) · Homewrecker ( Maul) · Powerjack · Back Scratcher · Sharpened Volcano Fragment · Third Degree · Lollichop · Neon Annihilator · Hot Hand | | | | | | |
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