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Ohhhh… What is The Golden Wrench?

by Hey You on 01/07/10 at 7:32 pm

In today’s TF2 update (July 01, 2010) we received a small list of changes:
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-Added missing earbud particles for DX8 players.
-Added new ConVar mp_windifference_min to be used with mp_windifference.
-Added Engineer to the list of classes that can equip Max’s Pistol.
-Rebuilt sound cache files that were out of date.

However what you didn’t see on this list that appeared in game files and hammer was the Golden Wrench.  Not currently a selectable item for the engineer, it’s value and uses are relatively unknown.  However we do know it’s normally a Level 25 Wrench (possibly a replacement for the normal wrench) and its “Imbued with an ancient power.  Is this possibly a new weapon that will be avaliable in the update, will this be a special unlock like the soldier badge that will be found on a hidden page, or is Valve just trolling us all for a good laugh.

Here’s the coding that came with the golden wrench in the game files:
“TF_HUD_Event_GoldenWrench_C” “%s1 has found Golden Wrench no. %s2!”
“TF_HUD_Event_GoldenWrench_D” “%s1 has destroyed Golden Wrench no. %s2!”

“150″
{”name” “turn to gold”
“attribute_class” “set_turn_to_gold”
“attribute_name” “turns corpse to gold”
“min_value” “1″
“max_value” “1″
“description_string” “#Attrib_TurnToGold”
“description_format” “value_is_additive”
“hidden” “0″
“effect_type” “positive”}

“TF_Unique_Golden_Wrench” “Golden Wrench” [$ENGLISH]

“169″
{”name” “Golden Wrench”
“item_class” “tf_weapon_wrench”
“craft_class” “weapon”
“item_type_name” “#TF_Weapon_Wrench”
“item_name” “#TF_Unique_Golden_Wrench”
“item_slot” “melee”
“item_quality” “unique”
“min_ilevel” “25″
“max_ilevel” “25″
“propername” “1″
“attach_to_hands” “1″
“item_logname” “wrench_golden”
“item_iconname” “wrench_golden”
“image_inventory” “backpack/weapons/c_models/c_wrench/gold_wrench”
“image_inventory_size_w” “128″
“image_inventory_size_h” “82″
“model_player” “models/weapons/c_models/c_wrench/c_wrench.mdl”
“used_by_classes”
{”engineer” “1″}
“visuals”
{”material_override” “models/weapons/c_items/gold_wrench.vmt”}
“mouse_pressed_sound” “ui/item_metal_weapon_pickup.wav”
“drop_sound” “ui/item_metal_weapon_drop.wav”
“attributes”
{”turn to gold”
{”attribute_class” “set_turn_to_gold”
“value” “1″}}}

Secret code:
Looking even further into this, there have been secret codes found on image files as seen here.

There was also a URL given that is a decryption program, which can decrypt the coded message at the top of that image. You must use the key “saxtonhale”
The message is something like “Clearly here is more space than needed. I wonder what else was here?”
So this image may be a dead end or red herring.

Post something and let everyone know your thoughts/theories on what this Golden Wrench is and what it’s going to be used for.