Mechanic's Best Friend
(Non-tradeable)
Legacy (tradeable)
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The Mechanic's Best Friend is a melee weapon in Fallout 76 , introduced in the Nuclear Winter update .
Characteristics
The pipe wrench is a heavy metal wrench, speckled with rust and covered in chipped red paint. Although other wrenches appear in the game, the pipe wrench is the only one used as a makeshift melee weapon.
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Mechanic's Best Friend was a reward for completing the "Destroy different kinds of robots" weekly challenge in Survival mode from July 2 to 8, 2019.. The requirements were as follows:
Pistols .44 pistol (Medical Malpractice , Somerset Special , The Fact Finder , Voice of Set ) · 10mm pistol (Anti-Scorched training pistol ) · Alien blaster (The V.A.T.S. Unknown , Zeta's Revenge ) · Black powder blunderbuss · Black powder pistol · Crusader pistol · Flare gun · Gamma gun (Xerxo's gamma ray gun ) · Gauss pistol · Pipe bolt-action · Pipe pistol · Pipe revolver · Salvaged Assaultron head (Polly's Assaultron head , Sheepsquatch Assaultron head ) · Single action revolver (Fancy single action revolver ) · Western revolver Shotguns Combat shotgun · Double-barrel shotgun (Salt of the Earth ) · Gauss shotgun · Pepper Shaker · Pump action shotgun (Civil Unrest , Fancy pump action shotgun )Rifles 10mm submachine gun (Perfect Storm , Old Guard's 10mm SMG ) · Alien disintegrator · Assault rifle (Whistle in the Dark ) · Black powder rifle · The Dragon · Combat rifle (The Fixer ) · Enclave plasma gun · Gauss rifle · Handmade rifle · Hunting rifle (Brotherhood recon rifle ) · Laser rifle (Acceptable Overkill ) · Lever action rifle (Sole Survivor ) · Plasma gun (Mind Over Matter , Slug Buster ) · Radium rifle · Railway rifle · Submachine gun · Syringer (Rose's syringer , Vox syringer ) · Tesla rifle (Night Light ) · Ultracite laser gun Heavy weapons 50 cal machine gun (The Action Hero , Final Word ) · Auto grenade launcher · Broadsider · Hellstorm missile launcher · Cryolator · Fat Man (Daisycutter , The Guarantee ) · Flamer (Pyrolyzer ) · Gatling gun (Resolute Veteran ) · Gatling laser · Gatling plasma · Gauss minigun · Light machine gun · Harpoon gun (Kingfisher ) · M79 grenade launcher (Crushing Blow ) · Minigun · Missile launcher (Bunker Buster ) · Pepper Shaker · Plasma Caster · Ultracite Gatling laser Bows Bow · Compound bow · Crossbow