Vanilla Ammunition Overhaul

A full rework of the existing system around ammunition crafting. Fully automate ammunition crafting at your outpost, if you choose to; or craft manually for larger & more efficient yields

Ammunition is now composed of several new components:

Primers (Magnetic, Energy, Chemical - Cased, Chemical - Caseless) Cartridges (Cased, Caseless, Energy - LZR, Energy - Fuse) Projectiles (Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Magnetic) Propellant (Chemical and Energy)

These new components are, themselves craftable using existing resources, however, enemies will drop these new components and many vendors will keep them in stock as well.

The goal is to make the player independent from vendors in general. Ideally, players will be able to harvest/extract/construct all materials to craft ammo independent of vendors and looting. Crafting materials were chosen for their ability to be extracted in order to allow supply lines to connect harvesting outposts. You will now be able to build a complete outpost network to automate the crafting of ammo. Be warned, the automated yield for the ammunition itself is quite low and by automating component manufacturing the player will lose out on material reduction bonuses awarded by the perk "Research Methods". Ultimately it is up to the player on how best to manufacture their arsenal.

The system is not tyrannically granular in that components are not specific for a type of caliber. For example, Cased Cartridges can be used with any cased ammunition caliber and Magnetic Primers and Projectiles will work with any magnetic ammunition type, and so on. The new Ammunition Workbench is a highly sophisticated machine that can plasticize the components in order to create the desired ammunition. The only exception is 40mm XPL; specific components are required for those. I wanted to increase the immersion of crafting ammunition and increase player independence but not at the expense of bogging the player down with overly complex crafting requirements or literally weighing down their inventory with useless items.

Crafting Examples:

6.5 CT: Projectile Rifle Chemical Propellant Cased Primer Cased Cartridge

11mm Caseless: Projectile - Rifle Caseless Primer Caseless Cartridge - (Caseless Cartridge is crafted using propellant)

MI .43 Array: Magnetic Primer Magnetic Projectile

Ammunition Crafting has been removed from the Industrial Workbench and sent to the new Ammunition Workbench.

Component names are generalized and simple to allow for a better UI experience, but more immersive names are stamped onto the components themselves. New icons will also help players recognize components and ammunition more quickly in the UI.