How do I make a monster who shoots guns?

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I’ve copied the special attack from military laser turret to my monster json definition, but during testing they run up to me and start scratching instead of shooting.

Unrelated; How to make a “turret” monster, eg. so they don’t move, other than making their speed ‘0’?

Here’s my monster:

{
“type” : “MONSTER”,
“id” : “mon_grey”,
“name”: “Grey”,
“description”: “Frail frame, big, round head, big eyes, pencil-line lips. You know. An alien. It’s carrying a plasma bolt rifle.”,
“species”:“ALIEN”,
“default_faction”:“ALIENS”,
“symbol”:“G”,
“color”:“green_yellow”,
“size”:“SMALL”,
“material”:“flesh”,
“diff”:10,
“aggression”:100,
“morale”:100,
“speed”:100,
“melee_skill”:3,
“melee_dice”:1,
“melee_dice_sides”:1,
“melee_bash”:8,
“dodge”:4,
“vision_day”: 50,
“vision_night”: 50,
“armor_bash”:6,
“armor_cut”:6,
“armor_pierce”:6,
“item_chance”:0,
“luminance”:0,
“hp”:80,
“special_freq”:[0],
“death_function”:“NORMAL”,
“special_attacks”: [
{
“type”: “gun”,
“cooldown”: 1,
“gun_type”: “laser_cannon”,
“fake_skills”: [ [ “gun”, 4 ], [ “rifle”, 8 ] ],
“range”: 18,
“ranges”: [ [ 0, 30, “DEFAULT” ] ],
“description” : “P-P-P-POW”,
“require_sunlight”: false
}
],
“require_targeting_player”: false,
“require_targeting_npc”: false,
“require_targeting_monster”: false,
“flags”:[“SEES”, “SMELLS”, “HEARS”, “PATH_AVOID_DANGER_1”, “BLEED”, “WARM”],
“anger_triggers”:[],
“fear_triggers”:[],
“placate_triggers”:[“MEAT”],
“categories”:[“ALIEN”]
}

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So, I hope necroing this isn’t seen as that much of a douche move, since I’m also interested in modding some ranged monsters.

I believe you forgot to add ammo to the monster’s inventory? (you can check turrets and grenadiers for reference). Have you had any success modding this in anyways? Anyone has tips?

3

Giving your monster the “IMMOBILE” flag should make them unable to move.

4

Giving it ammo would make it shoot, too.
You used the LAZOR template, a sun powered gun, to define a conventional gun that explicitly does not used sun-power.

But this is a necro.