Shotgun Ammo Mod Hunt

[Tundra - タンドラ]

So it turns out, the Shotgun Ammo Mod is in the game - or at least, in the code. You can check this yourself by unzipping data0.pak, then opening data/collectables.scr in notepad or something similar, and finally doing a search for "Craftplan_Shotgunammo". Lo and behold, you'll find it - so it's 'there', the question is, where in the game?

If you unzip the entire data1.pak, which contains all the game level information, you'll get an assortment of files (some compiled, some not) that tell you what's in what level. If you use something to grep the files, like Windows Grep, and use the search string "Craftplan_Shotgunammo", you'll find there is exactly one file where it's found - data/maps/bs_military_quarters/bs_military_quarters.exp

This leads me to believe that the Shotgun Ammo Blueprints are located in the interior military base level. Whether they exist in an area the player can get to is of course, another question entirely. So for those searching for them, this seems to be a good (logical) head start.

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

I searched that place from top to bottom and never found the mod for shotgun ammo, but then again it could just be another one of the many bugs in the game.

[Frostbite*]

the shotgun ammo blueprint is in the military base location is in 1 of the rooms after u get the quest to exit the base just check all rooms after u get off the radio:0) cant rember which room

[kaffekoppen]

Originally posted by Guyver:

I searched that place from top to bottom and never found the mod for shotgun ammo, but then again it could just be another one of the many bugs in the game.

Me too. I checked every room when I was there and didn't see it.

[mgsmith02]

I searched it up and down also, couldn't locate it anywhere inside the Military HQ or the base itself. Anyone providing a photo of the location would be helpful....

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

Originally posted by Frostbite*:

the shotgun ammo blueprint is in the military base location is in 1 of the rooms after u get the quest to exit the base just check all rooms after u get off the radio:0) cant rember which room

I see a lot of people calling bs on posts like these, how about a screenshot of it in your mod list or at the location where you pick it up? I went back and spent an hour looking for it and it wasn't there.

[Tundra - タンドラ]

Also, I decided that looking for a tiny blueprint for the mod was a pain in a really dark military base, so I swapped out the model for the blueprint with a 4 wheel vehicle. No luck - didn't see any giant cars sticking out of walls, tables, etc. So I suspect that if the reference is correct and the shotgun ammo mod is actually in the base, it's been accidently moved somewhere that is nowhere near the base itself (like sunk 200 meters under a floor or something).

[Tundra - タンドラ]

Originally posted by Guyver:

Originally posted by Frostbite*:

the shotgun ammo blueprint is in the military base location is in 1 of the rooms after u get the quest to exit the base just check all rooms after u get off the radio:0) cant rember which room

I see a lot of people calling bs on posts like these, how about a screenshot of it in your mod list or at the location where you pick it up? I went back and spent an hour looking for it and it wasn't there.

Well, to be precise, you could simply mod a vendor to sell the mod plans if you wanted, since it's technically in the game - so a screenshot of it in your mod list doesn't really mean it exists in that location. The only thing that would prove it exists in that location is a screenshot of it in that location. Sucks. :\

But yeah, screenshots (of it in that location) or it didn't happen.

[PHJF]

The RIFLE AMMO is in the military base. I don't think I've seen pistol or shotgun ammo.

Doesn't really matter since ammo is a) at pretty much every vendor and b) pretty much all over the place.

[eSPiYa]

Originally posted by PHJF:

The RIFLE AMMO is in the military base. I don't think I've seen pistol or shotgun ammo.

Doesn't really matter since ammo is a) at pretty much every vendor and b) pretty much all over the place.

Pistol ammo blueprint is in the driver's seat of a car inside a compound in Panai Ferry Station.

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

I'm going through every nook and cranny of the game to find it, and there are A LOT of hdden spots with nothing in them

[Tundra - タンドラ]

Originally posted by Guyver:

I'm going through every nook and cranny of the game to find it, and there are A LOT of hdden spots with nothing in them

Well, the point of this post (the OP) was I didn't want people to spend a ton of their time looking for something which quite possibly isn't accessible, even though we know where it is. It would be nice if a developer or someone in contact with them (Professor Pew?) could forward this thread off to them, and get a confirmation that "yeah, it's there, you just can't get to it yet, we need to patch it" - that way we didn't waste a ton of time.

[General Grenier]

Originally posted by tundra puppy:

So it turns out, the Shotgun Ammo Mod is in the game - or at least, in the code. You can check this yourself by unzipping data0.pak, then opening data/collectables.scr in notepad or something similar, and finally doing a search for "Craftplan_Shotgunammo". Lo and behold, you'll find it - so it's 'there', the question is, where in the game?

If you unzip the entire data1.pak, which contains all the game level information, you'll get an assortment of files (some compiled, some not) that tell you what's in what level. If you use something to grep the files, like Windows Grep, and use the search string "Craftplan_Shotgunammo", you'll find there is exactly one file where it's found - data/maps/bs_military_quarters/bs_military_quarters.exp

This leads me to believe that the Shotgun Ammo Blueprints are located in the interior military base level. Whether they exist in an area the player can get to is of course, another question entirely. So for those searching for them, this seems to be a good (logical) head start.

So I've done what you did and yes indeed "craftplan_shotgunammoy" is in the file so the shotgun ammo blueprint should be found within "bs_military_quarters". However, I searched that file for other "craftplans" and guess what I found? I found this file contains THREE craftplans. The RIfle Ammo Blueprint, which we all knew was INSIDE the building. And there was also the Shock Rifle Mod, which is within the military zone, but not inside the building.

So having searched inside the building for hours from top to bottom previous to this find (I even searched over every air duct and on every keyboard drawer and behind every desk..... I would have found a flea if there was one) this tells me one of two things. Either it's in the military zone outside, or mistakenly misplaced below the map or inside a wall or another object. I'll keep looking... I guess.

It just SUCKS that Techland doesn't give any feedback about such a big deal.

[General Grenier]

I decided to tweak around a bit with the game to mod my skills so I would be able to reach places I normally couldn't to check if the blueprint could have been misplaced outside the reachable areas. I search all around the military zone but in vain. I even accidentally fell off beneath the playable map without dying and looked around there too, but still in vain. I think this blueprint is a lost cause.

[Tundra - タンドラ]

Unfortunately, it appears that the shotgun ammo blueprints were not fixed in the latest patch (ver 1.4.1.1.13) - checking the military base still does not yield any blueprints (as far as I could tell).

[TheMobster4]

I've found it, when you enter the building in the military base go all the way up the stairs, go through the small door, take a left through the door where there will be a room directly across from you, take another left and keep going straight until you get to the large rooms with many desks, take another left and go into the most left door until you reach a room with green paint, go through the only door and you will reach a room with many guns (rifles, shotguns, Donna's equipment, heavy pistol, and many military knives) on the left wall in the middle wall in the open cabinet on top of two boxes will be the shotgun ammo blueprint. ( ive found this in this point in the game ,dead island definitive edition, chapter 9 firefight, quest: militarized zone, task :activate the extinguisher system)