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The Wrench is the melee weapon of the Engineer. Its primary function is the upgrade and repair of Dispensers, Teleporters, and Sentry Guns, as well as being a melee weapon. In addition, while placed buildings will construct themselves, striking them with the Wrench will cause them to build twice as fast as leaving them alone. This effect stacks with each additional Engineer striking the building with their Wrench during construction. The Wrench may also be used to remove the Spy's Electro Sappers, and is a formidable melee weapon. Its Critical hit animation is a swing from right to left. Equipping the Gunslinger or the Southern Hospitality when you have the Wrench currently equipped will destroy all existing buildings.
Damage
- Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
- Mini-Crit: 88
- Critical hit: 195
- Damage Repaired per Hit: 105
- Upgrade Amount per Hit: 25 (Corresponding loss in metal)
- Metal Cost per Repairing Stroke: 1 + Damage / 5
- Metal Cost for reloading ammo: 1 per bullet, 2 per rocket salvo
Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.
Function times
All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.
Related Achievements
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Built to Last Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed.
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Circle the Wagons Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players.
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Silent Pardner Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members.
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Quick Draw Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds.
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Get Along! Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.
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Land Grab Help a teammate construct a building.
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Trivia
- Per the Sentry Instruction Manual the Wrench's full name is "Uhlman Build-Matic Wrench".
- Because damage dealt by Sentry Guns increases the Engineer's Critical hit chance, the Engineer can earn a high Crit rate without dealing much damage himself. This, combined with the 15% base Crit rate on melee weapons, leads to misconceptions about the Wrench's "unnaturally high" Crit rate.
- The in-game model for the Wrench is based off the original monkey wrench, designed by Charles Moncky in the 19th century, not the Stillson and crescent wrenches associated with the phrase today.
- The Wrench has Developer weapon variants.
- The Wrench is a Mann. Co brand adjustible spanner.
Gallery
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See also