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 default melee weapon 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 will turn into motionless golden statues instead of normal ragdolls. This effect applies to jigglebones which freeze in place, but not Hats or Misc. items. Additionally, the facial muscles of the statues will still move and they will cry out in pain upon dying.

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 awarded. Only 100 Golden Wrenches were available at the time, and the ability to smelt reclaimed 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.

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.

Demonstration

Discovery

The material files contained a weapon icon and an encoded message,

"lek/NIxV HkQ6U RDB FXV/R s1Hefy yiY6t e76mmuL. So misJJ3k ivV9g Vy6X5 oepq sP7R/?"

This code was able to be decoded with the key "saxtonhale" and the following message displayes,

"Clearly here is more space than needed. I wonder what else was here?"

This message probably is related to the 512×512 Picture only containing the icon of the Golden Wrench.

In the night from 4. July 2010 16 players recieved a Golden Wrench after Robin made the finding possible.

At 5. July 2010 it was revealed that ther was a limit of 100 Wrenches total that would be given out in the next few days. The Site said there would be a random chance to fidn a Wrench everytime a item was crafted (it was later proofen by Drunken F00l that the Wrenchdrops were set at predetermined times though). Whenever a player found a Golden Wrench all players on every server were displayed a message, The counter was raised an the name of the player was written in the official wrenchlog, followed from a "Success!" announcment from the Announcer. Also whenever a Golden Wrench is destroyed (like it happened later in the Golden Charity event) every player is displayed a message and the announcer comments it with "Failure!".

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

October 6, 2010 Patch

  • The unique number for each weapon is fixed; previously it did not show correctly.

October 8, 2010 Patch

  • The weapon is now nameable using a Name Tag.

Bugs

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An Engineer killed whilst carrying The Golden Wrench will not drop it, instead dropping the regular Wrench.

Trivia

  • The Golden Wrench was originally indicated in the material file with an encrypted message that could be translated.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • The Golden Wrench is one of the few weapons that uses a kill icon that isn't one of the two normal kill icon colors.
  • On August 31 2010, 14 Golden Wrenches were destroyed as part of the Golden Charity event in support of Child's Play.
  • There are several lines of dialogue specific to the Golden Wrench, which can be triggered on a Wrench kill or if the Engineer's Sentry Gun makes a kill while the Wrench is equipped.
  • The level of this weapon could be a reference to the fact that new content for the Engineer update was announced for every 25 wrenches found.
  • A golden statue of a dead player will not make a metallic sound when it hits the ground. It makes a fleshy sound instead, like a normal ragdoll.
  • As well as being designated as non-tradable items, Golden Wrenches cannot be used with Gift Wrap.

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