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“

— The Engineer welcoming the Spy You're a looooooong way from France, boy. ”

The Southern Hospitality is a community-created melee weapon for the Engineer. It is a modified pipe wrench with a spiked knuckle guard and a sharp metal spike on the top.

Striking an opponent with this weapon causes them to bleed for five seconds. As a downside, this weapon does not deliver random critical hits, and players wielding it have a 20% increase in fire vulnerability.

Switching from this weapon to the Gunslinger will destroy the sentry the player has built. 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 Bleeding 8 / s

40 total Bleeding (mini-crit) 10 / s

50 total 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 Bleeding duration 5 s Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Crafting

Blueprint

As a crafting ingredient

Strange variant





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.

Trivia

The Southern Hospitality, as with the Frontier Justice, the Wrangler and the Gunslinger, appears to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's grandfather. This is shown by a hidden link in the Engineer Update.

The name "Southern Hospitality" is derived from the same phrase describing the warm and welcoming American South.

With the Mann-Conomy Update and by extension the release of the Mann Co. Store, the creator of the Southern Hospitality emailed Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell to thank him for his item's inclusion. Newell responded to this by purchasing 10,000 Southern Hospitalities from the Mann Co. Store. [citation needed]

Unlike other Engineer melee weapons, the Strange variant of the Southern Hospitality ranks up based on melee kills, not Sentry Gun kills.

Gallery

First-person view.

Radigan Conagher holding the Southern Hospitality.

The Southern Hospitality as it appeared on the Engineer Update page.