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 defensive structures and are the first automatic defense to be unlocked. They use magazines for ammunition which can be refilled manually or by inserters. unlike laser turrets, they do not require power and can operate practically anywhere as long as they have sufficient ammunition. On the downside, this means that ammo must be periodically replenished.

Without upgrades, the gun turret has a lower fire rate than the man-portable submachine gun, doing 0.66 times as much damage per second. However, the gun turret can deal significantly more damage than laser turrets or manual submachine guns after upgrades, especially using advanced ammunition such as a Uranium rounds magazine.

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 24.2 damage from regular and 38.72 damage from piercing bullets. With uranium bullets the damage gets as high as 116.16 per bullet, enough to kill a medium Biter in one shot.

History

• 0.12.0:
  • All turrets now have a 2×2 footprint
  • New graphics, color is now force-dependent
  • Recipe is 2× 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