Spawn Bullet

A shot with no shooter: the bullet is borrowed from a turret and flies from wherever you say

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Once a second a duo’s graphite bullet flies out of tile five — although there is no turret on the map at all. The dagger on the right loses health and dies after a dozen shots.

Field	What is in it
first	where to put the created bullet
second	whose bullet we borrow: a turret or unit type
third	which ammo: an item for an item turret, a weapon index for a unit
fourth and fifth	where it flies from, in tiles
sixth	the angle in degrees
seventh	the team
eighth	the owner: the unit or building the shot is credited to
ninth	damage; -1 means “as the ammo’s”
tenth and eleventh	multipliers for speed and lifetime
twelfth and thirteenth	the aim point — for bullets that use one

A bullet always belongs to somebody

The instruction has no bullet kind of its own: it borrows a ready type from whoever fires such bullets.

• from an item turret — by ammo: @duo plus @copper, @graphite or @silicon;
• from a power turret — its own shot, with no ammo needed;
• from a unit — by weapon index: @dagger and 0.

Hence the strength of the shot: graphite from a duo hits for 18, copper for 9. The ninth field lets you rewrite the damage without touching anything else.

Note

The team and the owner are different things. The team decides who gets hurt; the owner who the hit is credited to. The owner can be a unit or a building, or it can be left empty: then the shot simply has no author.

What it is for

• weapons the game does not have: traps, shooting walls, delayed mines;
• scripted events: shelling the base “from afar”, a meteor shower;
• spectacle: a victory salute, tracer fire along a road.

Silent failure

A bullet checks nothing. Not ammo, not reload, not firing range — as many as you say fly out. A program calling bullet every iteration fires several hundred bullets a second and brings the game down exactly as spawn does without a limiter.

So shots are always paced: by a timer, as in the example, or by an event.

Note

The course sandbox does not support unit bullets — only item turrets’. In the game the instruction works as usual.

Remember

• bullet creates a bullet at a point on the map, with no turret and no shooter.
• The bullet’s type is borrowed from a turret or a unit; an item turret also needs ammo.
• The team decides who gets hurt; the owner who the shot is credited to.
• Damage, speed and lifetime can be rewritten with multipliers.
• The instruction checks neither ammo nor reload — the program keeps count.

Task

Change the ammo in the example from @graphite to @copper: the damage halves and the dagger lives noticeably longer.

Then set the ninth field to 100 instead of -1: the bullet looks the same but hits five times harder than graphite.