Clockwork Assault Rifle

The Clockwork Assault Rifle is a gun that fires in three-round bursts. It is sometimes dropped by the Wall of Flesh. Only the first shot out of the three will consume ammunition. The attack button can be held for repeat fire.

Tips

 * This weapon's high rate of fire and low ammo consumption make it ideal for mowing down large packs of enemies, especially if used with bullets that deal damage to multiple foes, like Crystal Bullets or Meteor Shot. This is especially useful during invasions, especially if the invaders can be grouped up in chokepoints.
 * These same strengths also make it effective against Bosses.
 * Despite being obtained by defeating the Wall of Flesh, this weapon is easily outclassed in terms of DPS by every Hardmode gun; generally becoming quickly obsolete.


 * This weapon is superior to other firearms in terms of fortified defense as you can conserve ammunition firing while still being supported by cannons.
 * This weapon can easily destroy the Wall of Flesh in less than 20 seconds.
 * This weapon has a 66.6% chance to not consume ammo (As only one of every three bullets is counted as being used), higher then any other weapon in the game. Because of this, it's actually useful in hardmode, as if all three shots hit, it does 19x3 (57) damage, and with the worst bullets Musket Ball, it would do a sizeable 64 damage per burst, more then the harder to obtain Megashark, and much stronger then other weapons like the Minishark.
 * Because of the reasons stated above, it's very effective against bosses, as only the Brain of Cthulhu is affected by knockback, so the 0 knockback isn't an issue.

Trivia

 * This weapon is part of an ongoing steam-punk themed equipment set in the game.