Engineer build

How players win with Engineer Community consensus

Summarised in our own words on 13 November 2026; check the patch date of each source against PC 1.2.

Weapons Engineer boosts most Computed from rules

Engineer: ordered by how much Engineer's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Engineer doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Engineer's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Engineer's modifiers; one weapon, its highest tier, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 89 of 95 equippable weapons scale with a stat Engineer can raise.

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Chainsaw IV	×1.43	99.1	Engineering	57	0.58 s
2	Screwdriver IVStarting option	×1.39	82.4	Engineering	50	0.88 s
3	Awl IVStarting option	×1.34	90.8	Engineering	55	0.88 s
4	Plank IVStarting option	×1.31	66.2	Engineering	63	0.98 s
5	War Hammer IV	×1.15	143.1	Engineering	275	1.95 s
6	Brick IV	×1.12	114.7	Engineering	157	1.39 s
7	Particle Accelerator IV	×1.12	99.8+ burn 10×10	Engineering	157	1.62 s
8	Combat Shotgun IV	×1	350.6	Ranged Damage	32 ×8	0.75 s
9	Machine Gun IV	×1	250.7	Ranged Damage	22	0.09 s
10	Minigun IV	×1	228.9	Ranged Damage	20	0.09 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

• Screwdriver#2 of 89, 82.4 DPS at tier IV
• Awl#3 of 89, 90.8 DPS at tier IV
• Plank#4 of 89, 66.2 DPS at tier IV
• Hammer#24 of 89, 109.1 DPS at tier IV
• Shovel#40 of 89, 77.1 DPS at tier IV
• Crowbar#81 of 89, 31.1 DPS at tier IV
• Wrench#82 of 89, 30.4 DPS at tier IV

Legendary-only weapons

These exist only at tier IV, cost a Legendary shop slot and carry the Legendary set penalty of −20 Max HP per weapon of the class. At the same profile: Chain Gun 1282 DPS; Gatling Laser 493.2 DPS; Excalibur 418.2 DPS; Scythe 243.2 DPS.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

Ranked by points per base material after Engineer's multiplier; prices rise each wave. Downsides are listed because they hit other stats.

Items that turn Engineer's stats into more

• NailWeapon and pet damage additionally scales with 20% Engineering

Items that use Engineer's effects

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Engineer's modifiers reward Engineering ×1.25. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Chainsaw IV (99.1 DPS).

Engineering ×1.25

Every point from items, level-ups and set bonuses counts ×1.25; penalties grow by the same factor.

Damage ×0.50

Counts ×0.50, including its penalties, which shrink by the same factor.

Assumptions and method

• Damage per hit = round(trunc(base + Σ stat × scaling) × (1 + %Damage/100 + class %Damage/100)); crits average in as chance × round(hit × multiplier). Formulas are datamined from the game code; weapon numbers come from the game-file tables.
• Cooldown is the tooltip value, which includes the attack animation. Reload weapons average the long cooldown over its shot count. Attack Speed divides the tooltip, an approximation: the game divides only the cooldown frames.
• Not modelled: pierce, bounce, explosion splash, knockback, on-hit and kill-count effects, structures, and how often the weapon actually reaches enemies. Multi-projectile weapons assume every projectile hits the same target, which favours shotguns.
• Version: Brotato PC 1.2 with the 12 November 2026 patch. Reviewed 12 November 2026.