Clockwork Assault Rifle



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

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 as the Megashark.

Trivia

 * On the, 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.
 * The Clockwork Assault Rifle and the Star Cannon are some of the only guns without knockback.