Laser turrets work - they hold a beam on whatever you are aiming at instead of firing bullets. A laser damages what it is touching five times a second, so it is steady damage rather than big hits. Damage numbers pop up where a laser is burning, and everyone in the session sees the same number. The beam stops at the first thing it meets, so an ally or a piece of cover in the way blocks it. Laser turrets no longer shoot through your own hull, and can be buried inside a ship without jamming. Homing turrets fire now too - they shoot straight for the moment, but they are no longer decorations. The three laser turrets in Classic (Laser Cannon, Laser Blade, EMP Laser) have never fired until now.

Lua can now make a ship immovable with ship.Static = true, for walls, stations and terrain that ships bump into. A static ship keeps its real hull shape for collision, so there are no boxes to line up by hand. Lua can also make a ship indestructible with ship.Indestructible = true, so nothing can shoot holes in it. The two are separate: a boss hull can be shootable but unshovable, and an escort can be fragile-looking but safe. Shots and beams stop dead against an indestructible hull and show no damage numbers, since no damage happened. Lua can hide the right-click "Edit Ship" option on a ship with ship.CanEdit = false, so stations and scenery are not editable. Right-clicking a ship like that does nothing at all, rather than showing a greyed-out option. Turrets pick how they fight with a new "TurretType" field: "default" for bullets, "Laser" for a beam. Every gun can be "type": "turret" now - laserturret and homingturret still work but are no longer needed. A laser turret takes three images: image_laser for the beam, image_laser_beginning for the muzzle, image_laser_hit for where it lands. The beam image is tiled and scrolls along itself, so a small seamless tile is all you need to draw. All three laser images can be animations instead of single pictures. laser_damage_interval sets how often a beam ticks damage, laser_scroll_speed how fast it crawls, laser_width how thick it is. A laser with several muzzles fires a beam out of each one, and each beam does its own damage. Old parts using img_laser_base, img_laser_begin and img_laser_end still work - the names were kept. There is a working example to copy in Mods/Example: ExampleLaser.json plus five placeholder images. The modding guide has a new "Laser turrets" page covering all of it. A turret that leaves out fire_delay or projectile_count no longer breaks the ship it is on.

The palette tooltip for a laser says "Damage / tick" and shows its rate, so it cannot be confused with a cannon's per-shot damage. Bullet stats (fire delay, muzzle speed, projectile count) are hidden from a laser's tooltip, where they meant nothing.

# SMALL FEATURE UPDATE

## GAMEPLAY

Added buld mode direction reference so you know what direction is forward with your ship.

## MODDING

Turrets can have multiple barrels now. "projectile" takes an array of {relative_pos_x, relative_pos_y, projectile} instead of just a name, so each barrel has its own position on the gun and its own bullet. Offsets are in grid units and rotate with the turret.

Added "alternate_projectiles" - fires one barrel per shot in turn, wrapping at the end, instead of all at once.

Added "volley_delay" - fires all the barrels in order with a delay in seconds between each. Ignored if alternate_projectiles is on, and warns if you set both.

"projectile_count" is now per barrel, not per shot.

All of this replaces "bullet_spawn_positions", which was never actually read.