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As the soldiers' need for a digging implement for graves, latrines and trenches increased to include hedgerows, shrubberies and officers' golf courses, the Army stepped up development of its standard issue digging tools to make them smaller and more effective. — Market Gardener publicity blurb
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The Market Gardener is a community-created melee weapon for the Soldier. It is an entrenching shovel with a tan wooden handle fastened with green metal.
The Market Gardener deals critical hits to enemies whilst the wielder is rocket jumping (or otherwise airborne via explosion), but will not randomly crit otherwise.
Compared to the default Shovel, the Market Gardener has a 20% slower swinging speed.
Damage and function times
[collapse]Damage and function times
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Damage type
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Melee
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Ranged or Melee damage?
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Melee
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Damage
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Base damage
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100%
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65
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Critical
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195
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Mini-crit
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88
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Function times
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Attack interval
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0.96 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Item set
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
As a crafting ingredient
Strange variant
[expand]Strange variant information
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Strange Market Gardener Strange Shovel - Kills: 0 Deals crits while the wielder is rocket jumping 20% slower firing speed No random critical hits
Only the first statistic counts towards the strange rank.
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Related achievements
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Death from Above Rocket jump and kill 2 enemies before you land.
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Wings of Glory Kill an enemy soldier while both you and the target are airborne.
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Update history
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- The Market Gardener was added to the game.
June 28, 2011 Patch
- Added/Refined recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for the Market Gardener.
May 17, 2012 Patch
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
September 4, 2012 Patch
- The Market Gardener now uses Shovel sounds.
November 12, 2013 Patch
December 17, 2015 Patch (Tough Break Update)
- Changed attribute:
- Added 20% Attack Speed penalty.
Bugs
- The state of "launched by explosion" can be prolonged by jumping at the exact moment the player lands (bunnyhopping), which allows the weapon to crit after technically landing, and can theoretically be extended indefinitely.
- There is sometimes a glitch when playing the game with DirectX8 that causes the model to flip backwards.
Trivia
- The real life counterpart to the Market Gardener is the M-1951 Entrenching Tool.
- The name of this item comes from Operation Market Garden, a (failed) operation consisting of an Allied paradrop around the Dutch cities of Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and Arnhem to capture key bridges and a ground attack to move over said captured bridges, that occurred during World War II.
Gallery
See also
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