Turrets don't pull ammo

Henrey Herman shared this bug 8 hours ago
Submitted

I have "broken" turrets - Most of artillery turrets and some gatling turrets do not pull ammo from any storage. I can get ammo in them by dragging from storage container to turret manually (directly), so there are no issues with turret being connected to the container thru conveyors. And the turret uses the ammo (fires) just fine, however it never refills itself - runs out and stops firing until I manually load it.

It seems to be caused by projector, when making a blueprint of the ship (that had no such issues in survival mode) and welding projected version of it (even if turret is the last to weld), turrets tend to brake like so. If I manually place a turret (with out projection), it works fine. Also as I checked and it did work when bp of it was made, the auto pull/push is enabled.

Pasted ship of original bp has no such issue, however, if I weld it from a projection, then copy the bp, the bug persists in pasted version too.

I have also noticed that effected turrets tend to pull/push ammo among themselves, so if you load one of them, others might steal ammo from it (often leaving it empty), while still being unable to fetch ammo from connected containers. It seem that they do so and keep shuffling between turrets with no end.

I have attached a .zip with blueprint that seems to be effected now by this bug. I have not found a way how to resolve it, I even tried "resting the grid" (merging effected ship to a static grid).

My running theory is that the turrets view each other as the main source for ammo and thus keep pulling from each other and ignoring the cargo. If I empty the turrets (by turning pull/push off and removing all shells from them), and then turn the pull/push one, they will grab about 6 shells from cargo and start rotating those among turrets while most are empty at any given time.

Do to this bug some of the turrets can fire rarely while others will never fire at all.

I have confirmed this issue on official keen servers and my local survival game, so it should not be me only issue.

Leave a Comment
 
Attach a file