B41 + B42: Mod support for 'Escape From Kentucky 2', tweaks and optimisations:

• General:
  
  • Ammo definitions for two additional calibres (B41+B42):
    
    • 5.8x42mm
      
    • 8.6mm BLK
  • Projectiles for 40mm grenades: 'Projectile 40 HE' and 'Projectile 40 INC' (B42)
    
  • Advanced forge recipes to craft 'Projectile 40 HE' and 'Projectile 40 INC' (B42)
    
  • Updated world item textures for bullets, casings and hulls (B42)
    
  • Updated mod load order to load Ammo Maker after supported gun mods (B42)
    
  • Dynamic recipe system feature to handle modded calibres that override base game ammo types (B42)
    
  • Centralised Ammo Maker utility functions to get ammo data (B42)
• Mod support:
  
  • Escape From Kentucky 2 (B41+B42)
• Bugfixes:
  
  • Disabled recipes now display a 'N/A' icon (prevents crashing of the UI when selecting recipes without inputs defined, issue since PZ 42.5.0) (B42)

Again, quite a big update behind the scenes: In case of issues, please let me know on discord as always.

B41 + B42: Small foraging update:

• B41 is now using the updated Ammo Maker foraging functions from the B42 version
  
• 'Bird Excrement' search focus / category has been renamed to 'Bird Products'
  
• The 'Bird Products' search focus / category is now available in B41 as well
  
• Adjusted foraging chances for 'Bird Excrement' (B41+B42) and 'Bird Feathers' (B41)

B42: This update includes the all-new dynamic recipe management system to provide support for gun mods:

• General:
  
  • New ammo definitions for additional 37 calibres (45 in total)
    
  • Base game chicken and turkey dung are now viable ingredients for the 'Dissolve Bird Excrement' recipe
    
  • Adjusted foraging chances for casings
    
  • 'Disassemble Ammo' (previously 'Recycle Ammo') recipe is now in the main 'Ammo Maker' recipe category
    
  • 'Repair Hull Fired Shotgun ...' recipes are now in the main 'Ammo Maker' recipe category
    
  • 'Disassemble Ammo' recipe now returns multiple gunpowder grains items if resulting grains amount > 1 (100 units)
• Mod support:
  
  • Supported B42 gun mods:
    
    • CJ Firearms
      
    • Firearms + Firearms Beta
      
    • Guns of 93 Test Build
      
    • Rain's Firearms & Gun Parts
      
    • Real Firearms
  • New 'Make Ammo ...' recipes with dynamic management of inputs and outputs (dependent on active gun mod)
    
  • New 'Disassemble Ammo' recipe with dynamic management of inputs and outputs (dependent on active gun mod)
    
  • All types of casings and fired shotgun hulls can now be found in foraging mode (dependent on active gun mod)
    
  • Gun mods ammo conversion recipes are deactivated when using Ammo Maker
    
  • New sandbox option to allow ammo conversion recipes from gun mods 'Allow Convert Recipes'
    
  • Spent round count fix for 'Real Firearms' revolvers
• Limitations:
  
  • Currently it's not supported to use multiple gun mods at the same time with Ammo Maker
    
  • Inactive 'Make Ammo ...' recipes are not completely hidden but get marked as 'Deactivated by Ammo Maker' and appear on the bottom of the recipe list

More updates are in the works, stay tuned :) In case of issues, please let me know on discord.

B42: Hotfix:

• Breech-loading firearms now return casings on reload again
  
• Update on 'Recycle Plastic', 'Make Filter Paper' and 'Recycle Jewelry Chain' recipe code

B42: Optimisations and bugfixes:

• 'Make Casing ...', 'Make Bullet ...' and 'Make Hull Shotgun ...' recipes now accept all items with the 'Small Smeltable Iron' tag instead of 'Scrap Metal' only
  
• 'Recycle Metal' recipe has been removed
  
• Yields of the 'Make Bullet ...' recipes have been adjusted
  
• 'Make Mold Bullets ...' recipes have been condensed into one recipe that allows the selection of the bullet type when crafting
  
• 'Make Mold' and 'Make Mold Bullets' recipes are now in the main 'Ammo Maker' recipe category
  
• 'Ammo Maker Molds' recipe category has been removed
  
• 'Recycle Ammo' recipes have been condensed into one recipe that allows the selection of the round type when crafting
  
• 'Recycle Hull Fired Shotgun ...' recipes have been renamed to 'Repair Hull Fired Shotgun ...'
  
• 'Repair Hull Fired Shotgun ...' recipes are now in the 'Ammo Maker Parts' recipe category
  
• New recipes to recycle casings back into 'Scrap Metal'
  
• 'Dissolve Bird Excrement' recipe now consumes the pot
  
• 'Extract Nitre' recipe now returns the pot with the same condition as used for the initial 'Dissolve Bird Excrement' recipe
  
• General code maintenance (e.g. central ammo data table (simplifies future support for gun mods); major recipe code optimisation; implementation of b42 features)

Many things have changed behind the scenes with this update: In case of issues, please let me know on discord.
Up next: Implementation of calibres from other gun mods.

B42: Foraging update, new casings clean-up function and bugfixes:

• Foraging Update:
  
  • Casings can now be found when using the foraging (search) mode
    
  • New definition of the chances to find bird excrement and casings in different zones
    
  • New search foci for bird excrement and casings
    
  • New sandbox options to define the foraging stack sizes of casings:
    
    • 'Casings Spawn Min' range: 1-20pcs, standard: 1pcs
      
    • 'Casings Spawn Max' range: 1-20pcs, standard: 3pcs
• Casings clean-up function:
  
  • Automatically removes casings that are dropped when firing guns from the world after a given time
    
  • Casings that were placed or manually dropped by players are not affected
    
  • New sandbox option to define the lifetime of dropped casings in hours:
    
    • 'Dropped Casings Lifetime' range: 1-720h, standard: 168h (one week)
  • Limitation: The function removes the casings whenever the map chunks are loaded
• Bugfixes:
  
  • Recycle plastic recipe now consumes fluid containers (e.g. plastic cups)
    
  • M625 revolver now returns 'Casing Straight M' on reload
    
  • Fixed world item textures for Ball 00 and Slug 12

Looking forward to your feedback, especially on foraging spawn rates, thank you in advance!

Among other things, this update contains recipes to craft casings in B42:

• New forge recipes for casings:
  
  • Simple Forge:
    
    • Metalworking (Blacksmithing) level 5:
      
      • Make Casing Straight S, M, L Rimmed
        
      • Make Hull Shotgun S
    • Metalworking (Blacksmithing) level 6:
      
      • Make Casing Straight S, M, L
        
      • Make Hull Shotgun L
  • Advanced Forge:
    
    • Metalworking (Blacksmithing) level 7:
      
      • Make Casing Bottleneck M Rimmed
    • Metalworking (Blacksmithing) level 8:
      
      • Make Casing Bottleneck S, M, L
        
      • Make Casing Grenade
• New recipes to recycle fired shotgun shells for ammo making
  
• Updated list of viable items for the recycle plastic recipe (now contains 122 different plastic items)

Small update:

• B42:
  
  • 'Base.CharcoalCrafted' (from the base game barrels or the burning pile) can now be used to make charcoal powder
    
  • New item icons for bullets and casings
    
  • New furnace recipes for 'Bullet Rifle L', 'Bullet Handgun L' and 'Slug 12' (preparation for mod support)
    
  • Molds for the additional bullet recipes
    
  • Base game 'gather gunpowder' recipe is now hidden again when using Ammo Maker
• B41:
  
  • Adjusted crafting speed for Scrap Guns 'Salvaged Bullets' and 'Scrap Bullets' to Ammo Maker standard

This update contains the first version of Ammo Maker for B42.
While B42 is in beta we will introduce new concepts and test out ideas for Ammo Maker.
One of the goals for the new version is to make the crafting processes more realistic and to integrate them in the new B42 tech tree.

The B41 version of Ammo Maker is not affected by these changes and works as before.

• New features and changes:
  
  • Instead of crafting casings (ammo parts) from scratch, early and mid game now relies on recycling
    
  • Ammo Maker now drops casings whenever a gun is fired
    
  • The dropped casings correspond with the calibre classes as known from the ammo parts in B41 (Casing Bottleneck S, Casing Straight M, ...)
    
  • For revolvers and breech-loading firearms, the casings get added to the player inventory on reload
    
  • There are two versions of brass catchers that can be crafted to capture casings
    
  • By adding a brass catcher to the inventory, first some and later all casings will be captured and added to the player inventory
    
  • To reuse the collected casings they have to be combined with bullets and gunpowder grains
    
  • The bullets can be cast with the reusable Ammo Maker sand mold and the new B42 furnaces
    
  • There are three different sizes of bullets for rifles, three for handguns and loads for shotguns (currently not all in use)
    
  • The recipes to make gunpowder and grains are adjusted to B42 but the process is still the same
• Things to consider
  
  • Compatibility of Ammo Maker with other mods in B42 will be added over time
    
  • The bird feeder has not been converted to B42 yet and will come back in a future version (consider to increase the spawn rate for bird excrement in foraging mode with the sandbox settings)
    
  • Right now there is no way to hide the 'gather gunpowder' recipe of the base game (consider not using it together with Ammo Maker to maintain the gunpowder to ammo exchange rate)
    
  • Processes to craft casings from scratch will be added later
    
  • The resolution of the item icons has not been updated yet

• Compatibility Updates:
  
  • Real Firearms
• Additional recipes if Real Firearms is present:
  
  • Make / Recycle 7.62x51 NATO [RF]
    
  • Make / Recycle .30-06 Spring [RF]
    
  • Make / Recycle 7.62x39 [RF]
    
  • Make / Recycle 7.62x54 R [RF]
    
  • Make / Recycle 7.92x57 Maus [RF]
    
  • Make / Recycle .357 Mag [RF]
    
  • Make / Recycle 9x18 Mak [RF]
• Bugfixes and Tweaks:
  
  • 'Plastic Tray' is now a viable ingredient for the 'Recycle Plastic' recipe
    
  • Update on functions to hide arsenal gunfighter [AGF] scrap recipes