vortex cannon sell description improved to state the ammo is combineable.

mining laser reduced from 5 to 3.5 rounds per second to account for it being hit scan and higher damage due to penetration and low resistance damage types. Increased detach speed to compensate. The fast fire rate was also making the beam tracer look wrong or skip frames due to high fire rate and low fade. Boxes will take 15% longer to empty but time to kill will still be above the standard coilgun as it was far too good at 5 rpm.

fixed issue with ores contained in creature inventories causing an error when fired upon by the mining laser by using a conditional to check if the ore is attached.

mining laser tweaks to dial it in, seems good overall

hotfix: removed all DOCKYARD particle effects

Testing revealed some Heavy SSL issues with max targets.

AP and Slug both hit max targets of 2 correctly and AP has a short fuse before exploding, closer to center on dead on hammerhead sized targets.

HEDP explodes sooner with more structure damage and cracks icebergs extremely well though sort of a waste.

Dense Flak damage readjusted so it does more damage against single targets close to the blast and slightly less damage in its VERY large burst, also its damage to hull and items is better normalized to not spike or cause unintended effects.

Slight boost to autocannon ice breaking, especially on explosive shells.

some cleanup on prices and sprites, tweaks to mining laser to do a VERY small amount of AoE damage to hull like it does ice to improve its visual cutting effect.

Added the Ammo Shelf Crate, a compact and slightly expensive 12 slot crate you can only put on ammo shelves similar to the explosive crate but can hold medium items like Heavy SSL rockets. It can also be used in fabricator/decon but while waterproof it has no special fireproofing or other features over a chemical/explosive crate.

Added mining laser, Changed Vortex ammo to look different, Mining laser ammo reclaims its original ammo sprite.
Heavy SSL rockets are now carried over the shoulder like railgun shells. Considering adding a special small steel crate that fits on shelves next patch to make reloading easier.


Mining laser is pretty straight forward it is a low power rapid pulse laser that is made to extract ore from the surrounding rock and ice, it has a lot of ammo per cell 600+ but does low damage with good penetration and slightly higher than coilgun energy use. The cells have to be recycled and the zinc plates can be reused in another capacitor. Its main feature is it as it says, mines ore by quickly detaching it similiar to a plasma cutter.

Heavy SSL and Rail Half Flak major fixes,

Heavy SSL higher velocity, AP properly goes through hull, HEDP embeds before exploding. Flak of both types goes off correctly.