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| [ | Ever get hit by a wrench before? ―Mechanic 
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The Wrench is the stock melee weapon for the Mechanic. It is a pipe wrench with a team-colored handle.
It is the Mechanic's main expedient; not only does it serve as the standard weapon for attacking, but also helps boost construction build rate, upgrade and repair buildings and remove sappers.
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 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.81s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Tips
- Do not be afraid to use the Wrench as a melee weapon, as it still deals a hefty 65 damage per hit.
- Cloaked and disguised Agents can easily be defeated with the stock Wrench.
- The Wrench does the same damage as all of the Annihilator's swords. Most Annihilators forget this and will be shocked when they die first in a melee battle against you.
- When you place a building down, keep hitting it with your Wrench to perform a "construction boost". This will make the building activate faster within 5 seconds. Buildings that don't get construction boosted take at least a whole 15 seconds to activate.
- The Wrench is a jack-of-all-trades and a master of none. This means that if the other wrenches prove too difficult to get adjusted to, or if the game state does not call for anything specific, this is still a very fine choice. In other words, if you prefer to have a construction boost bonus while simultaneously keeping high burst healing to remain as flexible as possible, the stock Wrench is an excellent choice.
- Make sure to try to stay within 6 studs of your enemy to hit them.
Strange Variants
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 Strange Wrench Level 6 Wrench Strange Wrench - Sentry Kills: 0 Upgrades, repairs and speeds up construction of friendly buildings on hit. ( Not Sellable or Marketable ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related Achievements
See also: Achievements
General
Relentless
Kill 3 players with a melee weapon within 15 seconds.
Mechanic
Not So Fast
Destroy a sapper on your building while it has less than 10% health left.
Repaired Despair
Kill an enemy with your wrench after they have killed one of your buildings in the last 15 seconds.
No Right to Repair
Destroy an enemy Mechanic's building with your wrench.
Ease His Pain
Switch to Mechanic just to upgrade another Mechanic's teleporter.
Watched Pot Never Boils
As a Mechanic, hit a building and achieve no effect with a Wrench 100 times.
Update History
May 25, 2016
- Added Wrench.
June 26, 2016
- Added backpack icon.
July 29, 2016
- New model by ColonelBD.
August 6, 2018
- New model.
- Added new animations.
August 27, 2018
- Added a new backpack icon to match the current model.
November 1, 2021 (Typical Horrors)
- The Wrench is now team-colored. (Undocumented)
December 3, 2021
- Added Strange quality.
July 12, 2022 (A "Heavy" Update)
- Added Collector's quality. (Undocumented)
July 13, 2024 (Summer FM)
- Now has a 0.2s delay before the hitbox comes out, hitbox lasts for 0.18s.
- Updated viewmodel animations.
April 1, 2025
- Renamed to 24 in. Aluminum Straight Pipe Wrench for Plumbing, Sturdy Plumbing Pipe Tool with Self Cleaning Threads and Hook Jaws.
April 2, 2025
- Reverted the rename.
Trivia
- Darkythaze was originally the only owner of a Strange-quality version of the Wrench before the items were released to anyone else.
- A Community-quality version of the Wrench was given to MidnightKrystal, Campyfire and emilio121212 for having their cosmetics added to the game and creating unusual effects for the game.
- The 2016 model was taken from a Team Fortress 2 custom weapon called, Radigans Beatin Aide.
- The backpack icon indicates the Wrench was initially going to be team-colored, however, the color was set to grey.
- The Wrench was later changed to being team-colored in the Typical Horrors update.
- Back in early 2017, the Wrench's world model was a crowbar, most likely as a placeholder.
Gallery
Past Designs
2018.
2016/Mid-2017.
2017. (Previous)
2016. (Previous)
2015.
2014.
Viewmodels
GRN Mechanic's first person view.
RED Mechanic's first person view.
