Having trouble finding that ammo for your old Earth weapon? Finding it difficult to keep your Magstorm properly fed? Are your outposts producing resources just so you can grind some XP with adaptive frames no one will ever use? Fret no more my friend! Put those resources to work and grind some experience you can actually use! Craft ammo, mines and grenades at your nearest industrial workbench for fun and profit or put those outposts to work with your new ammo fabrication line!

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - xEdit is still experimental at this point. I have added and removed the mod mid-game with no issues, but if you brick your save that's on you. Make a hard save prior to installing that you can roll back to if you experience issues.

Version 2.0 adds ammo fabrication at your outposts. Place the Ammo Fabricator down under the Builder menu, pick your ammo type and connect the resource supply chain. This is a level 2 fabricator meaning rank 2 of Outpost Engineering is needed.

The following recipes are available:

Ballistic Ammo - Requires copper, lead & benzene (as propellant) and Ballistics Rank 1 or 2.

• .50 Caseless
• Shotgun Shell - Caseless
• Shotgun Shell - 12g
• Shotgun Shell - 15x25 CLL
• 7.62x39mm
• 7.5mm Whitehot
• 6.5mm CT
• 11mm Caseless
• 12.5mm ST Rivet
• .45 ACP
• .43 Ultramag
• 9x39mm
• .27 Caliber
• 7.77mm Caseless
  

Ballistic Explosive Ammo - Requires copper, lead, tungsten & benzene and Demolitions rank 1 or 2.

• 40mm XPL
• 11mm XPL
  

Ballistic Magnetic Induction Ammo - Requires aluminum, iron and cobolt and Ballistics rank 2.

• .50 MI Array
• 6.5mm MI
• .43 MI Array
  

Laser Ammo - Requires lithium, helium-3, neon & cobolt for battery power and Lasers rank 1 or 2.

• 1.5kV LZR Cartridge
• 3kV LZR Cartridge
  

 
Fuse Ammo - Requires lithium, ionic liquids, chlorine & cobolt for battery power and Lasers rank 1 or 2.

• Light Particle Fuse
• Heavy Particle Fuse
  

Explosives - Each requires 4 materials to make and Demolitions rank 1 through 3 depending on item.

• Fragmentation Grenade
• Impact Grenade
• Particle Grenade
• Shrapnel Grenade
• Cryo Mine
• Fragmentation Mine
• Inferno Mine
• Stun Mine
• Tesla Pylon
• Toxic Gas Mine
  

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Known Issues

NOTE: Outpost fabricators only produce 1 item at a time, so this method is much more inefficient than using the workbench. I've therefore had to create the fabrication recipes using a 1:1:1:1 ratio, but the good news is you can let it run while you sleep and come back to pick up piles of ammo later if you can keep the supply chain going.

Also, liquids cannot be used in conjunction with the fabricator so some grenade and the fuse recipes have been modified to only utilize solids and gasses. The workbench recipes have not been changed in case some already had ionic liquid/mercury supply chains established.

I am open to suggestions on making improvements to either components, quantities produced, perks required, etc.


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Installation Instructions

Mod requires Plugin.txt Enabler and/or setting the file in the StarfieldCustom.ini (credit to 0arisaka0)

you need to add lines to the Starfield.ini and StarfieldCustom.ini to work

add this to the [General] sections
sTestFilex=MakeAmmo.esm
...where X is the number of .esp/.esm you need loaded, starting at 1

so if this is the first file you have it would be...
sTestFile1=MakeAmmo.esm

For Plugins.txt users add the following to your C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Starfield\plugins.txt
*MakeAmmo.esm


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Thanks and Acknowledegements

Thanks to Bethesda for an amazing game and for giving us the freedom to mod as we like!
Another huge thanks to the fantastic and dogged work getting xEdit working with this monstrosity! Any donations or Nexus points on this mod go directly to ElminsterAU.