Gun turret

Gun turret

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Recipe
8 + 10 + 10 + 20 → 1
Total raw
13 + 10 + 40
Map color
Health	400 520 640 760 1000
Stack size	50
Range	18 19.8 21.6 23.4 27
Shooting speed	10/s
Ammunition
Dimensions	2×2
Mining time	0.5
Prototype type	ammo-turret
Internal name	gun-turret
Required technologies
Boosting technologies
Produced by
Gun turret damage bonus stacks with ammo bonuses

The gun turret firing at a target.

A rotating turret.

Gun turrets are very basic and cheap defensive structures and the simplest element of automatic defenses. They use magazines for ammunition which can be refilled manually or by inserters. They do not require power and can operate practically anywhere as long as they have sufficient ammunition. Gun turrets deal double damage per shot as compared to the man-portable pistol and submachine gun, but have somewhat lower fire rate than the latter, so absent any turret-specific upgrades it does 1.33 times as much damage per second as the submachine guns.

Damage

The gun turret receives bonuses from technologies that improve bullets so it keeps pace with the submachine gun as those improve, and they also receive bonuses from their own damage upgrade. These two damage effects stack multiplicatively: fully upgraded, bullets do 2.2 times as much damage as a standard bullet, and turrets do 2.2 times as much damage as a standard turret, so bullets from a turret do 2.2×2.2=4.84 times as much damage as without the upgrades, totaling 48.4 damage from regular and 77.44 damage from piercing bullets, more than fully-upgraded laser turrets can provide, though still not quite enough to kill medium Biters in a single shot. With uranium bullets the damage gets as high as 232.32 per bullet, enough to kill a big Spitter in one shot.

History

• 0.12.0:
  • All turrets now have a 2x2 footprint
  • New graphics, color is now force-dependent
  • Recipe is 2x more expensive.

• 0.8.4:
  • Maximum of 10 Firearm magazines can be put into the turret by inserters.

• 0.7.1:
  • Gun turret damage upgrades
  • Faster movement speed of Gun turret
  • Range extended from 15 to 17.

• 0.3.0:
  • New graphics
  • Bullet particles for turret

• 0.2.7:
  • Warning for ammo-less turret is shown.
  • Contents of the turret's inventory visible in sidebar

• 0.1.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Laser turret
• Flamethrower turret