Making Ammo
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In AfterWorld you can either buy ammo from other players or craft it yourself.
To craft ammo, all you need is the basic resources that you can mine from rocks in Quarantine Zone A1 and some AWD to pay for the crafting process.
Every type of ammo is composed of three components:
- a bullet (made of different materials, depending on the type of ammo)
- a copper shell
- a unit of gunpowder
In this tutorial we will craft 1200 Ammo P (penetration damage, the most basic ammo) in Saransk Town, because we need to research the gunpowder to be able to make it, and research can be done only at Saransk. To start, we will assume that you have in your wallets 2 Promissory Micro-Notes needed to Research gunpowder and 0.21 AWD to pay for the entire crafting process (0.06 AWD for crafting costs and 0.15 AWD for refining costs). In your Saransk storage (found in the central building, where the revival pad is located) you will also need to have at least the following resources :
- 19.2 kg of Lead stone, used for the Penetration Bullet
- 4.8 kg of Copper stone, used for the Basic Shells
- 14.4 kg of Nitre stone, 4.8 kg of Coal stone, and 4.8 kg of Sulfur stone, used for the Gunpowder.
Refining the resources
We will start with the main task: refining the resources. To craft ammo you will need Lead and Copper in metallic form and Coal crumbs, Sulfur crystals, and Nitre granules in powder form. To obtain these, refine the stones collected by rock mining with a Pick by using a Foundry Terminal or a Chemical & Mineral Treatment Terminal to extract, for example, lead from the lead stone and copper from the copper stone.
Every time time you refine something, you will get a 2:1 ratio of refined item and will pay a 0.01 AWD fee every 4 kg of refining. So it's slightly more efficient if during this tutorial you refine 20 kg of Lead stone, 16 kg of Nitre stone, 8 kg of Copper stone, 8 kg of Coal stone, and 8 kg of Sulfur stone - you will pay the same and have some leftover refined materials on hand.
Always put any item to refine in Storage!
Lead, Copper, and Coal stones are refined in the Foundry Terminal, found in the Foundry building in the NW corner of Saransk town.
- Lead stone refines to a Lead bar
- Copper stone refines to a Copper bar
- Coal stone refines to a Coal crumbs pile
Nitre and Sulfur stones are refined in the Chemical & Mineral Treatment Terminal, on the second floor of the Mineral Treatment Facility in the NE corner of Saransk town, in the rooms across from the Oil Refinery Terminal.
- Nitre stone refines to a Nitre granules pile
- Sulfur stone refines to a Sulfur crystals pile
The refining process is similar in both:
- Right-click on the terminal
- Click Refine
- Drag your stack of stone into the empty slot on the left
- Click Continue
- Take a look at the refining cost and time
- Press Confirm
In the terminal window you will see:
- Amount of stone to be refined
- Time needed to refine (days:hours:minutes)
- Cost to rent the refiner
- The refined product you will receive when the process is complete
Along with what is shown in the window, you may also receive refining residue (Common slag) and some of the original stone. When refining is complete, you will receive a message that your refined material has been placed in Storage, as well as any other items received from refining, in the system area of the chat window (the top section).
If you are following along with this tutorial, you should now have at least 9.6 kg of lead, 2.4 kg of copper, sulfur crystals, and coal crumbs, and 7.2 kg of nitre granules.
Making Basic Shells
Let's start crafting the simplest part: the Basic Shell.
This is the metallic part that contains the gunpowder and the bullet.
From the Foundry terminal, run to the building just to the east.
Inside, you can find the Weaponry Components Terminal
- Right click on it
- Select Basic Shell under Ammo components
- Click Continue
- Type in the desired number of shells, in this case 1200
- Click Continue
- Drag 2.4 kg of refined Copper into the empty slot
- Click Continue
- Take a glance at the values: you are crafting 1200 basic shells at a cost of 0,01 AWD.
- Press Confirm to allow the terminal to complete the process
Beware that the resource requirements are fixed quantities. If you put one gram too many or too few, you can't continue until you remove it and add the exact amound needed. This can some times be annoying, but after a few attempts, it becomes habit to drag only the exact amount needed.
You can now stand still for the duration of the process or jump ahead to the section below to craft some Bullet P.
Making Bullets
In this part we will craft some bullets for our ammo.
It is the same process as making Basic Shells except that Lead is used.
- Right click on terminal (unless it is still open after making shells)
- Select Bullet P under Ammo components (the one with two pink bands)
- Click Continue
- Type in the desired number of bullets, in this case 1200
- Click Continue
- Drag 9.6 kg of refined Lead into the empty slot
- Click Continue
- Take a glance at the values: you are crafting 1200 bullet P at a cost of 0,02 AWD.
- Press Confirm to allow the terminal to complete the process
As you can see, the process is not that hard to follow.
While waiting for the bullets, let's start crafting the gunpowder...
Making Gunpowder
This is the most complicated component to make. It requires three ingredients to craft: coal, sulfur, and nitre (or, to be more precise, Coal crumbs, Sulfur crystals, and Nitre granules).
Before crafting Gunpowder for the first time, it's needed to do a one time sucessfull Research on it, which (as all research) needs to be done in Saransk Town. Research Terminals are located on the second floor of the Mineral Treatment Facility in the same rooms in which Nitre and Sulfur stones are refined.
To successfully research the gunpowder you need to have 2 Promissory Micro-Notes in you wallet and perform manual research (do not choose automated research), putting into research terminal exactly:
- 6 grams of Nitre granules
- 2 grams of Sulfur crystals
- 2 grams of Coal crumbs
which will also craft a single unit of gunpowder.
Now you need to go back to the Weaponry Components Terminal.
- Right click on terminal
- Select Gunpowder under Ammo components
- Click Continue
- Type in the desired number of Gunpowder Units, in this case 1200 (or 1199, as you already have 1 unit created during the research)
- Click Continue
- Drag 2.4 kg of Coal crumbs into the correct empty slot
- Drag 7.2 kg of Nitre granules into the correct empty slot
- Drag 2.4 kg of Sulfur crystals into the correct empty slot
- Click Continue
- Take a glance at the values: you are crafting 1200 units of gunpowder at a cost of 0.02 AWD.
- Press Confirm to allow the terminal to complete the process
Assembling the ammo
After 2-3 minutes, you should have the following in your Saransk storage inventory:
- 1200 Bullet P
- 1200 Gunpowder
- 1200 Basic Shell
Approach the terminal again and:
- Right click on terminal (unless it is still open after making shells)
- Select Ammo P under Ammo (the one with two pink bands)
- Click Continue
- Type in the desired number of bullets, in this case 1200
- Click Continue
- Drag the Bullet P stack into the correct empty slot
- Drag the Gunpowder pile into the correct empty slot
- Drag the Basic Shell stack into the correct empty slot
- Click Continue
- Take a glance at the values: you are crafting 1200 units of Ammo P at a cost of 0.01 AWD.
- Press Confirm to allow the terminal to complete the process
After a minute or two, your ammo will be completed and placed in your Saransk storage. Go to the storage lockers in the central building, where the revival pad is, and drag the ammo into an empty slot in your inventory or onto an existing stack of the exact same ammo. Now you will be able to hunt AW's various creatures.
A few tips
- Ammo is crafted most efficiently, with respect to AWD, in multiples of 1200.
- Craft enough ammo for personal use as well as some extra for emergency. Saransk is the only city with Crafting Terminals that function fully, however refining and crafting of ammo can also be done in Quarantine Zone A1.
- If someone in another zone is in need of ammo, you can sell your surplus for easy AWD, including enough to craft more ammo.
- To use the ammo, drag it directly to onto your gun in the Inventory window, while not equipped. Guns do not reload themselves and hold a maximum of 10,000 rounds, so be sure to keep an eye on your ammo count so that you do not run out at a bad time.
- When Making the Basic Shell and Normal P heads it is the most cost effective to make them in batches of 1200. Whilst the gunpowder and Assembeling of the shells can also be done in batches of 600.
