# Ammo manufacturing **URL:** \ **Category:** The Drawing Board\ **Created:** [August 9, 2013, 7:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632 "2013-08-09T07:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 7:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/1 "2013-08-09T07:08:45Z")
i’m wondering if we’re ever going to see increased spawns of gunpowder, primers, and lead(or ANY spawns for that matter!), or at least a recipe for such. say, a basic recipe for gunpowder(can’t remember what all you need right off the top of my head), primers would maybe require 1x copper wire and 1x gunpowder, and for projectiles we could use copper wire, gold, silver, and lead for regular bullets and chunks of steel for AP bullets, which do less base damage but give more penetration. oh, and also the ability to melt down gold and silver jewelry and gold bars to make bullets would be nice. EDIT: i’m using a nightly build from a couple of weeks ago so some of this may have been fixed already, namely the lead, powder, and primer spawning. ---
**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/2 "2013-08-09T07:30:36Z")
Silver bullets, just like the Lone Ranger! I like it. ---
**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/3 "2013-08-09T08:12:14Z")
well pretty much any soft metal works, copper, lead, gold, silver, etc. won’t be as hard on your barrels as steel or iron. ---
**Author:** ![Otaku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/otaku/32/27_2.png) [@Otaku](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Otaku)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/4 "2013-08-09T08:17:53Z")
There are already spawns for items listed. In gun shops. As for crafting bullets, the system in place is more for creating current bullets that you dont use into bullets that you can use. ---
**Author:** ![Sheb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@Sheb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sheb)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/5 "2013-08-09T08:58:40Z")
And you can alredy disassemble gold bars to create ammo. ---
**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/6 "2013-08-09T10:43:24Z")
still, it would be nice to be able to make my own… EDIT: ok i figured out how to turn gold bars into gold. as for the gun stores, i have looted dozens and never found gunpowder or lead, and only once, in a much older build, did i find primers. ---
**Author:** ![Otaku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/otaku/32/27_2.png) [@Otaku](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Otaku)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/7 "2013-08-09T11:01:17Z")
It was the RNG gods. Also, it might be because it is all ways on those shelves on the wall near the firing range. Also, try the latest build, it might be kinder to you. ---
**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/8 "2013-08-09T13:14:21Z")
[quote=“Otaku, post:7, topic:2632”]It was the RNG gods. Also, it might be because it is all ways on those shelves on the wall near the firing range. Also, try the latest build, it might be kinder to you.[/quote]ok i’m playing 0.7.1-404-g85beb37 is there a chance that my saves from this might be compatible with the most recent version? ---
**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/9 "2013-08-09T14:31:07Z")
No, in particular there were some changes to the way the inventory is saved. Also 100-odd other changes, any of which could have broken compatability. ---
**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/10 "2013-08-09T14:57:53Z")
> [@HunterAlpha1](#): > > [quote=“Otaku, post:7, topic:2632”]It was the RNG gods. Also, it might be because it is all ways on those shelves on the wall near the firing range. Also, try the latest build, it might be kinder to you.[/quote]ok i’m playing 0.7.1-404-g85beb37 is there a chance that my saves from this might be compatible with the most recent version? I imported my save from 7.08, and it works fine. ---
**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ammo-manufacturing/2632/11 "2013-08-09T17:04:08Z")
too late, i tried experimenting with mini nukes and…