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This article is about the Engineer's promotional melee weapon. It is not to be confused with the Australium Wrench

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— The Engineer That there is a gold-plated kill! ”

The Golden Wrench is a distributed melee weapon unique to the Engineer. It is similar to a regular Wrench, but the majority of it is made out of Australium.[1]

This weapon functions identically to the Wrench, but with an added cosmetic function: Any enemies killed with it will produce motionless statues of pure Australium, instead of the normal ragdolls. Any Jiggle Bones on enemy ragdolls are also frozen by this effect. In addition, a special sound effect - unique to this weapon, the Saxxy, and the Golden Frying Pan - is played upon killing any enemy.

Additionally, upon killing an enemy, unique voice lines will play.

This weapon was a promotional feature of the Engineer Update. Players were informed that every time a player crafted an item, there was a chance of a Golden Wrench dropping. Only 100 Golden Wrenches were available to drop. After each 25 Golden Wrench milestone, a new section of the Engineer Update was released. The smelting of reclaimed metal and refined metal was suspended during this time to prevent exploiting the crafting system to increase the chances of getting a Golden Wrench.

Damage and function times

Identical to: Wrench

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 105 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

Related achievements

Engineer to Eternity

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





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

If a Spy's Dead Ringer is triggered by the Golden Wrench, the Spy will see his own death message in the kill feed even though he would normally not be able to see it.

The Golden Wrench does not glow when crit boosted in world view.

Trivia

The Golden Wrench was originally indicated in the material file with an encrypted message that could be translated.

Any time someone received a Golden Wrench, a message was broadcasted to all players connected to servers at that moment, followed by the Announcer saying "Success". Likewise, a message is displayed to all players when any Golden Wrench owner deletes that item, followed by the Announcer saying "Failure". This continues in effect even after the Engineer Update.

The Golden Wrench is a reference to King Midas, who gained the ability 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.

14 Golden Wrenches were destroyed as part of the Golden Charity event in support of Child's Play on August 31, 2010.

Erik Johnson said in a PC Gamer interview: "That would have been awesome, if the whole TF2 community had the chance to find the broken pieces of the Golden Wrench and restore them. That whole event is going to carry forward in some way."

Player Vulcnor, upon winning a charity auction for Child's Play, received Golden Wrench No. 101 along with one of every other game item.

Gallery

First-person view.

First-person view with HDR effects enabled.

The message broadcast when a player finds a Golden Wrench.

The message broadcast when a player deletes a Golden Wrench.

Scout statue.

Soldier statue.

Pyro statue.

Demoman statue.

Heavy statue.

Engineer statue.

Medic statue.

Sniper statue.

Spy statue.

References