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.
 * 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. Though, it seems that in the Nintendo Switch version it has a similar effect of consuming two shots at once, making it fire far faster than it should.
 * The Clockwork Assault Rifle, Star Cannon, Flintlock Pistol and the Minishark are some of the only guns without knockback.
 * The Clockwork Assault Rifle is potentially a reference to the assault rifle, a real-world prototype rifle that fired in three-round bursts and had several gears in the internals of the weapon.