Ready to Shoot 2

Ready to Shoot 2 turns the vanilla gun turret into a basic-tier turret and adds three researchable preloaded variants: standard, advanced, and uranium.

Basic Tier

Newly built vanilla gun turrets are issued with 100 Basic Magazines.

Basic Magazines deal 50% of the damage of a firearm magazine.
They are hidden, have no recipe, and cannot be crafted.
The player cannot carry them.
When a turret containing Basic Magazines is mined or deconstructed, the Basic Magazines are deleted.
They never enter the deconstruction buffer, player inventory, or logistic network.
The 50% damage value is copied from the final firearm-magazine prototype in data-final-fixes, so it follows other mods that change normal ammo before that stage.

Basic Magazines are not a normal item. They cannot be crafted, carried, stored, or returned. The only way to get them is to build a vanilla gun turret.

The vanilla gun turret remains the basic tier even after research. The research tiers unlock separate preloaded turret items.

Preloaded Turrets and Recipes

Loaded Gun Turret (Standard)

Loaded ammo: 100 firearm magazines
Recipe: 1 gun turret + 100 firearm magazines
Research: Loaded Gun Turrets

Loaded Gun Turret (Advanced)

Loaded ammo: 100 piercing magazines
Recipe: 1 gun turret + 100 piercing magazines
Research: Advanced Loaded Gun Turrets

Loaded Gun Turret (Uranium)

Loaded ammo: 100 uranium magazines
Recipe: 1 gun turret + 100 uranium magazines
Research: Uranium Loaded Gun Turrets

Research Requirements

Loaded Gun Turrets -- after Gun Turret, 300 automation science.
Advanced Loaded Gun Turrets -- after Military 2 and Loaded Gun Turrets, 750 automation + logistic science.
Uranium Loaded Gun Turrets -- after Uranium Ammo and Advanced Loaded Gun Turrets, 2,500 science of all five science packs.

Deconstruction

A loaded turret returns a normal gun turret item plus its remaining magazines.
The loaded deployment item itself is consumed, so a turret cannot be placed, mined, and replaced with the same free ammo.
The vanilla turret's Basic Magazines simply disappear.

Notes

Loaded turret recipes disallow productivity and quality to prevent free ammo.
Loaded turrets have no fast replace.
Only newly built turrets are filled; existing turrets in an old save are not retrofitted.
Ammo colours in the icons and logo: basic = grey, standard/normal = yellow, advanced = red, uranium = poison green.

Ready to Shoot 2 is designed for Factorio 2.1.