The story of TF2's most controversial item
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- TF2's Golden Wrench is a rare and special TF2 weapon and its story is as exciting and dramatic like no other...
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We delve into the Team Fortress lore that lead to the Golden Wrench's existence, talk about how to get the Golden Wrench, dissect the drama that lead to multiple VAC bans and embrace the charitable destruction of one of TF2's rarest weapons, explaining the history of The Golden Wrench.
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It's ironic that australium wrench is more golden than golden wrench
Wasn’t that because they were bugged drops for the longest time
I mean. The golden wrench is literally worth nothing. It isn’t tradeable or marketable. There literally can’t be a price.
The golden wrench works like the golden pan and saxxy, can transform ragdolls into gold
But I don't know how wasn't that golden even golden in the name
@@Ubercentraltf2you can buy a wrench you just have to buy the account I think that’s how one tf2 TH-camr that does glitch videos got his
that's honestly a good investment for some golden wrenches
scrumpeh
Kablueh
That bloodeh scout is a spy
Leeeeet's do iiiiiiiit!
oAEUOAea
“Let’s make money by burning money”
*makes sense*
Worth nothing as it's untradeable.
@@GibusSpyTFExactly, they got the value of them through a charity event
Grey Mann logic:
@@GibusSpyTF are humans valuable
more spys. more backstabs
I was in a 2fort server with a golden wrench user a couple of days ago! when they died, all of* the engineers on my team (including myself) huddled around the wrench and stared at it lol
(*obligatory grammar correction edit for a mistake i didnt notice until half a year later)
Ooooooooooooooôoooooooooooooǒooooooh
Golden Builder
Probaly stood there in aww
@@Xx_SepticTank_xX Awe
@@didge69420 😭😭😭
I might have been on the same server...
If I ever make a video game, I'm gonna make an item that is a missing texture and there is only going to be 404 of them in existence.
LOL and be impossible to destory. account termination? market/back in the random pool
@@TylerTMG when one of them gets destroyed it gets drop back into the random pool until it's 404 again
@@RabiaCelik0307that actually sounds kinda neat.
And if the account has been inactive for say, 6 months? Drop the item back into the pool perhaps?
Most people just checking in tend to quit if they dont come back after that point anyways.
@@An_Average_Idiot that sounds fucking annoying
You fucking genius
30,000 to charity for the sake of 11 digital items is well worth it
They’d get more if they sold them tbh
@@CA11100I don’t think the tf2 economy was as strong back then
@@bennittotheburrito9606 true, nowadays I imagine they go for insane money
Average TF2 player W
@@CA11100aren’t they unreadable though?
My dumbass was thinking about the Australium version, then it hit me, "it's GOLDEN not AUSTRALIUM".
And when the event was going, there was no in-game information, and trying to ask other players about it, no one knew, but there was a popular community map called golden_wrench, and some, me included, thought it was a random drop when you defeated the boss there.
ADD GOLDEN BUILDINGS FOR GOLDEN WRENCH
team recognition go brrr
@@vedantsharma6206ikr?
Like the "lack of team recognition" in the "paintable" cosmetics aren't enough
You would never see them. Most accounts with a golden wrench are dead or rarely play tf2 anymore.
@@vedantsharma6206 why would they make the entire building gold.
We could still have Australium buildings added to the game while keeping team recognition intact. The only parts of the buildings that should be turned to gold should be the parts that use gunmetal for their coloration.
Valve when bots infest their game: I sleep
Valve when somebody crafts a golden wrench: REAL SHIT
You forgot the "I sleep".
There was no bot during the gold wrench
@@user-un2pf4ht9l...You know that's not what they're saying right?
This was back when they cared about TF2
this shit was like 5-6 years ago though
This reminds me of how controversial the golden pan was when one player destroyed theirs, it was like warzone online
And years later, it still goes on
I was once friends with someone that owned this wrench no.81 to be exact. They are extremely rare considering most people that own one don't play that game.
Atleast that engineer TF2ber with funny music has it
If you talking exploit man he has it, but not white beard man
@@breadiztastydelfy gamers
I swear I was just playing a game and I saw a fellow engi with a golden wrench. I thought"oh cool, I never saw this one before" and now I understand its significance.
I feel like it would‘ve made more sense to sell the wrenches for charity. The items would stay in circulation, and more money could probably get raised too.
I think theyre not marketable
Pretty sure they were untradable
Along with #SaveTF2, there should be some sort of petition to bring Golden Wrenches back as a craftable item (with VERY rare materials of course)
What if they sell the account
Also the best weapon specific voicelines in the game.
What you mean ?
@@MrThunderGlowengineer gets exclusive voice lines when he defeats enemies with it when they turn into australium statues at death.
I sold my strange the original a while ago for 60 bucks. Now its worth over 250. Fml
sold mine for 7 bucks years back
Atleast you're not that guy who sold his bitcoin at just a few hundred dollars, but could have been a billionaire if he waited just a year.
Sold my strange AWP and my strange Machina for like a total of 25$ years ago, now both are worth around 200$ total
I remember this, I was a young kid who played tf2 religiously. I had quite an impressive inventory and loved the game. This random chance golden wrench had me deconstructing all my items and rebuilding them Into random stuff for a chance at the wrench. I ended up losing it all and was not ready for that introduction to gambling, super sad times. Ended up not playing the game again until years later. Still sad to this day 😢
Someone who needs to get their wig split up has scammed me of over $100 in items, I feel you bro
@BardiXOfficial oh they got you too ? Yea I lost $100....but my inventory is now worth $600 !
@@tearex8688 It was back in September 2020 lol, but still mad over it and even more so at support for not doing anything about it
@BardiXOfficial yea. Always a shame. Around time I got scammed too.
I'll never forget the day when I met someone who had one, he didn't liked using it and I understand why.
Explain
Probably because people will worship him ingame
Almost all these comments are insanely stupid. Like holy moly, so have this:
They deleted it for charity, helping people, get over it its just pixels.
No, you *CAN NOT* get it anymore. 2010 event.
Australium is for show. Golden has special voice lines and turns people into golden statues, similar to the saxxy. Though is it for show? To me, it just shows how lucky you got.
Fun fact: Delfy, a youtuber who makes videos about tf2 exploits, owns one!
I kinda miss the idea of gold...like a golden knife...
why delete it in the first place, cant they just donate WITHOUT deleting one of the rarest items in tf2 history?
@pokade3659 tf2 history lol its a videogame you talk like in some point in time the servers won't be shutdown
@@quartzskull8772 You didnt answer my question
@@pokade3659 The point was it got engagement just like the ice bucket challenge
Valve just handed out manual VAC Bans to some of the bot hosters Steam accounts. So now its 2 times that they done it :)
I was in highschool when the engie update came out, I played every day, and even dabbled on some idle servers (I still got the cheaters lament lmao), though usually just to kill afk players.
One day I was watching youtube videos when I idled off one of the conveyer belts that kills you to stop you getting kicked. I see an item drop, click it, and it's a golden wrench. I have a full on "MOM GET THE CAMERA" overreaction moment, but when I click ok, it's not in my inventory. To this day I have no idea what happened.
Cheater's Lament was rewarded to people who didn't use out-of-game tools. In-game idling was not punished.
Good short, but that specific situation is not the ONLY time valve has ever manually banned someone lol..
Delfy is the one person I know that still has it
If their profile's aren't private I imagine you could find the rest of the owners relatively easy.
@@gnerus1972 Is there any tf2 database that shows who Has them?
@@skrkttrqzq9984afaik only ones people have compiled by asking around and getting a rough idea.
The Steam API won't let you just canvas the entire item server so you kinda gotta just research unfortunately
@@stitchfinger7678 i mean it does for cs items, theres also backpack tf but i dont know if you can search for it there
The charity was certainly really nice, but it's also been soured for me kinda because I remember one of the lucky finders of a Golden Wrench was bullied and harrassed by people because they did not want to delete their wrench for charity. If memory serves correctly, they eventually did go through and delete it only because they were tired of all the harrassment. Charity is nice, but don't be an asshole to someone who doesn't want to participate.
Now we know the story of how Uncle Dane got his holy wrench
Only in TF2 you'd find players that rise money by destroying the most valuable objects for charity.
For some reason, after hearing this, there is a gun in my mouth
I got to hold Fuffeh’s golden wrench in a trade server back in 2021
So you’re saying one of those digital golden wrenches is worth $1,875
Sadly, it seems like it, and there are more than one low life loser willing to pay that much for a literal yellow texture.
That's the tf2 community in a nutshell, a bunch of idiots that pay too much for literal worthless nfts.
@@cantstandurbs876 nft's ☠️ if you are crticizing someone you should at least have any idea about the thing you are talking about
@@skrkttrqzq9984 Tell me the difference between an NFT and limited tf2 cosmetics that takes no effort at all to create and are sold for thousands of dollars, which only idiots pay for.
Oh yeah, one is related to crypto and the other is easily available for purchase by any moron with a big enough budget, other than that, they're both the same scheme.
@@cantstandurbs876cant argue with that lol, it’s the same thing for counter strike to
@@skrkttrqzq9984🤨🤨🤨
I'm still thinking that the delete option on such a rare item is stupid af
Why? Explain your reason.
@@VeltrossthoBecause it’s a rare item?
@@Veltrosstho Because it's a really REALLY rare and un-renewable limited item.
Why? If you're going to say:" its SO RARE why would you delete it?"
Then you're probably a person who LOVES gambling.
Because some people did that for REAL money and not IN-GAME money.
And if they would love GAMBLING like you,
they wouldn't do that,
cuz that useless in-game item is
sO RArE.
I would do the same, honestly.
@@lolkin3k could you speak like a human, please?
It's the second only time they've personally handed out VAC bans now lol
Hard to believe there was so much demand for a regular wrench they just blasted with gold spray paint.
An Australium Wrench named "Golden Wrench" looks better than the actual Golden Wrench
No solid gold statues though
I kinda wish i had one.
As an Engie main i want the satisfaction of turning my enemies into gold statues, and for some reason australium doesn’t do that
I've heard rumors in the past that some people were being harrased to delete their wrenches for the charity, but no one I heard this from had solid proof.
Seems possible, but probably bunk.
It was true for at least one person (do not remember who it was). I very much remember some people on the Valve forums shaming one of the Wrench finders because they didn't want to give it up and talking about how they were scummy for not wanting to participate. Left a really bad taste in my mouth.
i remember stumbling upon a golden wrench engi on 2fort once
"First and only time ever" Oh boy... How that's changed
That player didnt had inner connections with Valve at the time, his nick was Drunken F00l. He works at Valve now. He was a sourcemod developer.
"Manual VAC bans for the first and only time ever."
The recent FixTF2 would like to have a word.
those were game bans, which are different from the other types of bans
Here’s the three:
1. Community Ban
2. VAC Ban
3. Game Ban
dropping the holy grail into a crusher to raise money
This isn't a holy grail though, it's a Faberge egg. Pretty, but ultimately useless bar the fact it's rare
Deleting the wrenches? For dfucking what??
Charity
@@lolkin3kmoney you neither could see nor touch.
@@lolkin3k how does deleting it make money?
I saw one like two months ago. Good to know I saw a pice of history surviving on a mere thread
I remember taking an ingame screenshot of someone who had one. Pretty neat.
Hey so where gonna destroy a virtual item in a game, aaah 1 cancer patient saved
Personally i wouldve Kept the Golden wrench forever
:3
On a darker note, a player named Mentok has one of these wrenches. He committed suicide.
How does destroying much of these wrenches will do anything
if none of them are left that will just mean that the item is just a couple lines of code, it won't be deleted or anything.
Well, the first time, indeed. But not the last one regarding manual bans.
I remember I tried so hard to get the golden wrench back in the day, I crafted almost everything I had, but I did not get it nor when I got more items to craft.
That's awesome, honestly. I read the TF2 dev team update on the event and it's super heartwarming, too. I love this.
the guy who leaked the secret also works at valve now
"First and only time ever"
Manual VAC bans have been handed out ever since, although this is likely the first time. Some people running the old cat bots way back received manual VAC bans
You forgot to mention how the wrench making system worked
How maniacal... I can't be upset about the destruction, because then it means I'm against charity (which is objectively more important)
cant they donate without deleting?
now, if only the dozen-or-so of other wrenches in the inventory of permanently banned players were to be put back in...
i think we can all agree that 30,000usd in charity funds is worth more than any video game item
why even delet them?
@@pokade3659to entice people to donate to charity
I just have golden frying pan in tf2
Handing out bans for it seems odd. I mean, yes, it takes the random chance out, but I see it like card counting at a casino. If you used it to get multiple, maybe.
"duck dem kids" - miguel jordan
Back when the nom-nom servers were alive, I telefragged a golden wrench owner who played there with his own tele. :3
This is complete nonsense. There is no way to craft a golden wrench on command. The person in question knew the date and time of the next Golden wrench randomness. They were on a server with their friends and they all crafted around the same time and most of them got a golden wrench. That was it.
That's basically crafting one on command bud
@@Soapromancer if it's still random then its not on command
@@ToyotaCorolla-en2mv it wasn't random. It was on a timer.
i used to have some friends with this but I lost them, have met some more people with it since, like 5 times now
Those manual VAC bans aren’t the only thing they did it, because recently, they did some manual VAC bans against bot hosters
I died to an australium wrench and tweaked out thinking that it was gold
Honestly a good use for these wrenches.
I always thought like only hardcore Engie mains have it like Buncle Dane and uhh Delfy, but well I guess wrong
Hell yeah! Now that's some fucking dedication to a charity!
how, how does deleting a wrench make money for charity?
@@pokade3659 you deleted an incredibly rare item that many people dedicate themselves to finding which would indefinitely piss said people off and cause you to reci- you know what why the hell am I explaining this if you watched the vid you'd know what happens when he deleted it. And you'd know how he raised said money.
@@Bloldywakna4736 why would i ask you, IF I FUCKING KNEW
@@pokade3659 why are you asking in the comments when there's a video that explains it!!
@@pokade3659 He has a pinned video talking about the wrench!!
Energy orb scattergun in my hands
I was thinking, Theoretically, there could've been a chance to make a Collector's quality golden wrench. I know it was never possible, but it's a funny thought.
i get it was for charity but that wrench would never leave my backpack, no matter the reason.
That whole event was poison.
Yeah screw charity
TF2 is such a mixed bag with community
I did not know how much money they were worth I thought that the golden pan was worth more
You meet golden wrench saxxy winners and golden frying pan owners all the time in degroot keep
Cementing it as the best map and gamemode in TF2 hands down.
BRO I WAS PLAYING MVM AND SOME GUY HAD IT and I said was nice wrench skin
......Should I mention the addition of that recovery ticket lost and found that ca undo these destructions for charity?
I have a golden wrench
Like I’m not kidding
The iconic 101 Wrench 😢😢
I saw a player with a golden wrench 1 or 2 weeks ago i asked him how did he get it he said it was for my birthday
Ig this is the coolest birthday gift ever
You sure it wasn't australium
"Hey you guys wanna delete something majorly rare and important to TF2 history"
"Lmao yeah sure"
and people are like "ITS FOR CHARITY" like, cant they just donate without deleting such an important thing?
@pokade3659 you say that as if people doing things to get others to donate to charity hasnt been done before like the ice bucket challenge was a charity thing
@@quartzskull8772 thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard
@@pokade3659 How so? am I wrong in saying people do things to encourage more people to donate?
@@quartzskull8772 they couldve made more money for charity by selling the accounts with the wrench
I actually encountered a person that had a golden wrench pretty recently lol
Bro, that many wrenches today would be worth way more than 30 grand, 😂😂😂
The "random" drops by valve were set to occur at specific times. Drunken F00l? Whatever his name was got a hold of the list and crafted at the right time to get a drop
Valve just handing out middle fingers instead of what the players wanted. It’s gonna hurt, but it ain’t gonna do anything.
I once saw a man with a golden wrench
I mean can't you just dip your normal wrench in australium?
so the australium wrench is different then the golden wrench? do they even work the same? also I thought they drop from mvm
The shine on both look different with the gold looking a little more oxidized than the australium. The golden wrench also has a unique property that can turn enemies into gold statues when killed, similarly to the Saxxy statue.
@@TequalHC and it gives enginner special voicelines that let me guess, dont work for the australium wrench?
@@theguy5855yes they are two different items with the same basic functionality
$30 000 for 16 golden wrenches is a bad deal imo.
It’s pretty cool to see how people actually destroyed the wrenches for charity because of what people did, besides, I honestly don’t think australium weapons are really worthy anything besides the Golden Pan. And I’m happy to hear how much money they made for charity! :D
I want one
Ironically they would've made MUCH more money selling the 8 accounts and giving that money to charity than what they did. I would imagine an account with one would be worth over 10k
Account selling is prohibited though. They would be breaking Steam's own rules.
@@gnerus1972 I guarantee there are ways to do it without being caught.
@@sheevpalps66 not when 90% of the trading community knows who you are
@gnerus1972 That would definitely make it harder but there would probably be ways of doing it still, although I don't know them.
They could use steam support to say they deleted it accident
Steam wouldn't do that especislly considering the stream proof
me selling my one golden wrench
Pretty sure a single golden wrench would go for far more than $30k nowadays.
So glad that tf2 is making a comeback
Dawg, thats just a less bright Australium wrench
the only youtuber with one i know is oddly Delfy
And those $30.000 after inflation......
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