turret cap exploding

[Catshley]

my entire ship gets cutt in half becasue my turret cap gets shot and then my 4 turrets in that spot explode with INSANE damige to my ship somehow then im in half, anyone know how to fix this and yes they are armoured sheilded everything

[Matt]

it doesn't take much to detonate your ammo. more armor, better anti-missiles, smarter location of the clips (behind the most things). get all the clips under an armored deck if you can.

also, less explody shells have less damage in their explosion radius, perhaps preventing a chain reaction.

[amimai002]

i usualy place my ammo clips inside a steel armored box inside my hull with a stick of guage cooling being the only thing that pierces the hull to the gun

the steel armor usualy absorbs the explosion if ammo goes boom, and since its inside the hull it has seferal layers of armor between it and the enemy

[Catshley]

thats what i did but its the cap that explodes for some reason but its from my mega turret i think but im going to have to use custom cannons or missles only, i really think that clip explosion needs to be nerfed

[CertifiedDwarfLord]

while if you ahve it on a turret its nice for aiming, building it into your ship is better, have a firing piece in the ships back, and build the connecters, loaders, ammo, and all that in the ships belly, a lot of the A.I ships do this to a good effect, its tough to blow you up then, but if you a re in multiplayer, someone can jump on your ship, use a grenade launcher to blast their way to the core of your ship and blow you up,but otherwise this idea works

[Matt]

good to note, if your turret block is on the bottom of your ship, you are one block away from a massive turret boom. make sure to armor up your keel where the turret sits, just to be safe.

[Sandman1424]

I placed my base's ammo supply underneath 20-30 Layers of metal, on like 3 sides. The brick brain AI kept going for my ammo and when it exploded it was the equivalent of a damn 1 MT nuke :p, don't question meh comparisons I just know, So overall you gotta protect that ammo or make each reserve smaller and spread them throughout your ship so when one explodes, the whole ship won't split in two.

[Admiral Obvious]

I will note that explosions work a lot more sensibly in the current dev build. Explosions can't wrap around objects anymore, so they can't get in between the essentially nonexistent gap between the turret and the deck anymore. So it's very unlikely to have a blast big enough to reach below the deck, unless it actually blasts through said deck now.