Clockwork Assault Rifle

Clockwork Assault Rifle

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Uses ammo	Bullets
Damage	19Ranged
Knockback	0 (No Knockback)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	12 Very Fast
Velocity	7.75
Tooltip	Three round burst Only the first shot consumes ammo
Rarity
Sell	30000*3

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 434

The Clockwork Assault Rifle firing Musket Balls.

The Clockwork Assault Rifle is a Hardmode gun that fires in three-round bursts. It has a 16.67% / 33.3% (1 in 6 / 1 in 3) chance to be dropped by the Wall of Flesh. Only the first shot out of the three will consume ammunition. The attack button can be held for repeated fire.

Its best modifier is Demonic, as it does not have any knockback and thus cannot get modifiers that affect it.

Notes

• The Clockwork Assault Rifle fires three shots, each one with a delay of 4 ticks, for a total of 12 ticks. The delay between one burst and the next is 14 ticks. One complete use of the weapon (including the delay) takes 26 ticks.
• Meteor Shots have reduced effectiveness with this weapon, like with all weapons with rapid fire. Due to their piercing capability, which causes invincibility frames on the enemy, only one or sometimes two shots of the three-round burst will hit.
• On the  3DS version, the Clockwork Assault Rifle has a knockback stat of Very Weak (rather than none).

Tips

• This weapon's high rate of fire and low ammo consumption make it ideal for crowd control. These same strengths also make it effective against bosses, especially for some of the mechanical bosses.
• This weapon's low ammo consumption makes it ideal for people who use expensive ammo, even well into the late-game.
• When using Crystal or Ichor Bullets as ammo, the player can easily defeat Plantera and even Golem with as poor as Hallowed armor.
• Having the Rapid modifier will greatly increase its fire rate, making it fire faster than the Minishark and doing as much DPS as the Megashark.

Trivia

• On the  Mobile version, the Clockwork Assault Rifle used to not have the delay between ticks, making it very viable far into Hardmode. However, this has been removed with the 1.3 update.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.