Golden Wrench

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That there is a gold-plated kill!
The Engineer

The Golden Wrench is an exclusive melee weapon for the Engineer. It is similar to a regular Wrench, but the majority of it is made of a golden substance.

This weapon is identical to the Wrench in that it deals the same damage, has the same Critical hit chance, and has the same animations. Its only distinguishing feature is that enemies killed by it turn into motionless golden statues instead of normal ragdolls. This effect applies to jigglebones which freeze in place, but not Hats or Misc. items. As the differences from the regular Wrench are purely visual, the Golden Wrench is similar and can be considered a distant counterpart to The Lugermorph and The Big Kill.

Damage

  • Point Blank: 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

  • Attack Interval: 0.8

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

Built to Last
Built to Last
Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed.


Circle the Wagons
Circle the Wagons
Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players.


Doc, Stock, and Barrel
Doc, Stock, and Barrel
Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic.


Fistful of Sappers
Fistful of Sappers
Destroy 25 sappers on buildings built by other team members.


Get Along!
Get Along!
Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.
Land Grab
Land Grab
Help a teammate construct a building.


Quick Draw
Quick Draw
Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds.


Rio Grind
Rio Grind
Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer.


Silent Pardner
Silent Pardner
Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members.


The Wrench Connection
The Wrench Connection
Kill a disguised spy with your Wrench.

Previous Changes

  • It was once possible to craft the Golden Wrench using the 'Fabricate Class Weapons' blueprint. However it was impossible to create an Engineer token to use with the blueprint. This was later fixed.

Trivia

  • 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 made. Only 100 Golden Wrenches were available at the time, and the ability to smelt metal back into scrap metal was suspended during this time to prevent continual crafting. Players who received a Golden Wrench were listed in the Official Wrench Log.
  • The Golden Wrench was originally indicated in the material file with an encrypted message that could be translated.
  • Sixteen players received the Golden Wrench on 4th July 2010 after a drop was triggered by developer Robin Walker. Later, on August 31 2010 14 Golden Wrenches were destroyed as part of the Golden Charity Event. One was destroyed in honor of the event, and one was part of the initial group but was destroyed early due to technical problems.
  • Even though enemies killed with the Golden Wrench turn into golden statues, they can still move their facial muscles and cry upon dying, similar to deaths for normal ragdolls. The sound they make when they hit the ground still sounds like flesh, despite being made of metal.
  • The Golden Wrench is a possible reference to King Midas, who gained the ability, or curse, 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.
  • It is disputed whether the Golden Wrench is plated with gold or Australium, a "transformative" metal mentioned in the comic "Loose Canon" [1] The reference to 100 pounds of Australium collected may correspond to the 100 Golden Wrenches.
  • The Golden Wrench uses a kill icon that isn't one of the two normal kill icon colors.
  • The Sniper's gold statue has a higher chance of remaining upright compared to the other classes, due to their disproportionate models.
  • If a Spy is killed by the Golden Wrench while he is holding the Dead Ringer, he will see his own death message even though he normally would not.
  • When the Golden Wrench receives a Crit boost, it does not shine with the respective team color but merely displays the team colored sparks.
  • Some of the few players who had a Golden Wrench had their accounts hacked and lost their wrenches due to crafting, though Valve quickly remedied this by restoring the lost wrenches to their respective owners.
  • If one is killed while holding a Golden Wrench, the item dropped appears as a regular Wrench.
  • The Golden Wrench is not tradable.
  • Some players got a VAC ban, as well as having their Wrench revoked, for using unfair advantages to obtain a Wrench.
  • Erik jonhson said: "It would be awesome if the whole TF2 community had the chance to find the broken pieces of the Golden Wrench and restore them" in a pc gamer magazine interview.

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