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This article is about the Engineer's stock melee weapon. For other wrenches, see Wrench (disambiguation)

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The Engineer about to "repair" the about to "repair" the Scout I'm gonna beat you like a rented mule, boy! ”

The Wrench, known officially as the Uhlman Build-Matic Wrench, is the default melee weapon for the Engineer. It is a railroad monkey wrench, typically used in the early 1900s.

The primary function of this weapon is the upgrade and repair of Dispensers, Teleporters, and Sentry Guns. In addition, while placed buildings will construct themselves, striking them with the Wrench will cause them to build 2.5 times as fast. This effect is additive with each additional Engineer striking the building with their Wrench during construction. It can also be used to remove a Spy's Sappers from buildings. The Wrench's critical hit animation is a swift, forceful swing from right to left.

Switching from this weapon to the Gunslinger will destroy any existing Sentry Gun made by the player. Similarly, switching to this weapon from the Gunslinger will cause the Gunslinger’s Combat Mini-Sentry Gun to be destroyed.

Damage and function times

Damage and function times Damage type Melee Ranged or Melee damage? Melee Damage Base damage 100% 65 Critical 195 Mini-crit 88 Damage repaired per hit 102 Upgrade amount per hit 25 Metal cost per repairing hit 1 + damage / 3 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.

Demonstration

Strange variant





Related achievements

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.

Midwife Crisis

Heal an Engineer as he repairs his sentry gun while it's under enemy fire.

Bugs

With flipped view-models enabled, this weapon's robot head, of all types, will have its normals inverted, making it appear to be see through.

Trivia

Because damage dealt by Sentry Guns increases an Engineer's critical hit chance, an Engineer can earn a high crit rate without dealing much damage himself. This, combined with the crit rate on melee weapons ranging from 15% to 65%, leads to misconceptions about the Wrench's "unnaturally high" crit rate.

The in-game model for the Wrench is based on the original monkey wrench designed by the Coes company in the 19th century.

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