Turret using Fluid as ammunition

[Krayt]

Hello,

As I am fairly new to modding and modding factorio I only created a few small modifications.
After successfully creating a Flamethrower Turret in 0.12.26, which uses regular flame-thrower-ammo in item form, I wanted to create a larger on using a custom Fluid (flame-thrower-fluid) as ammunition.
So far I set everything up to hopefully work in the end, but I ran into a problem, I have not been able to solve.
Pipes won't connect to my big-flame-thrower-turret. I chose an assembling-machine-3 as base of the turret with the Gatling Gun model on top.
The FluidBoxes area I copied from the section of the assembling-machine-3 for the dimensions to match.

I would be really interested in a way to solve the problem. I am not sure if it is possible without creating an own function, though.

This is the excerpt of the turrets.lua file, which is in my understanding the file, which needs changes in order to solve the problem.

excerpt of turrets.lua

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require ("prototypes.demo-pipecovers")
require ("prototypes.assemblerpipes")

data:extend({

[...]

-- Big Flamethrower Turret (Entity)

  {
    type = "ammo-turret",
    name = "big-flame-thrower-turret",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/flame-thrower.png",
    flags = {"placeable-player", "player-creation"},
    minable = {mining_time = 0.5, result = "big-flame-thrower-turret"},
    max_health = 400,
    resistances =
    {
      {
        type = "physical",
        decrease = 16,
        percent = 15,
      },
      {
        type = "fire",
        decrease = 0,
        percent = 100,
      }
    },
    fluid_boxes =
    {
      {
        production_type = "input",
        pipe_picture = assembler2pipepictures(),
        pipe_covers = pipecoverspictures(),
        base_area = 10,
        base_level = -1,
        pipe_connections = {{ type="input", position = {0, -2} }}
      },
      {
        production_type = "output",
        pipe_picture = assembler2pipepictures(),
        pipe_covers = pipecoverspictures(),
        base_area = 10,
        base_level = 1,
        pipe_connections = {{ type="output", position = {0, 2} }}
      },
    },
    off_when_no_fluid_recipe = false,
    collision_box = {{-1.2, -1.2}, {1.2, 1.2}},
    selection_box = {{-1.5, -1.5}, {1.5, 1.5}},
    corpse = "big-remnants",
    fluid = "flame-thrower-fluid",
    rotation_speed = 0.015,
    preparing_speed = 0.08,
    folding_speed = 0.08,
    fluid_usage_per_tick = 0.1,
    dying_explosion = "big-explosion",
    inventory_size = 1,
    automated_ammo_count = 10,
    attacking_speed = 0.5,
    folded_animation = 
    {
      layers =
      {
        gun_turret_extension{frame_count=1, line_length = 1},
        gun_turret_extension_mask{frame_count=1, line_length = 1},
        gun_turret_extension_shadow{frame_count=1, line_length = 1}
      }
    },
    preparing_animation = 
    {
      layers =
      {
        gun_turret_extension{},
        gun_turret_extension_mask{},
        gun_turret_extension_shadow{}
      }
    },
    prepared_animation = gun_turret_attack{frame_count=1},
    attacking_animation = gun_turret_attack{},
    folding_animation = 
    { 
      layers = 
      { 
        gun_turret_extension{run_mode = "backward"},
        gun_turret_extension_mask{run_mode = "backward"},
        gun_turret_extension_shadow{run_mode = "backward"}
      }
    },
    base_picture =
    {
      layers =
      {
        animation =
        {
          filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/assembling-machine-3/assembling-machine-3.png",
          priority = "high",
          width = 142,
          height = 113,
          frame_count = 32,
          line_length = 8,
          shift = {0.84, -0.09}
        },
      }
    },
    vehicle_impact_sound =  { filename = "__base__/sound/car-metal-impact.ogg", volume = 0.65 },
    attack_parameters =
    {
      type = "projectile",
      ammo_category = "flame-thrower-fluid",
      cooldown = 2,
      projectile_creation_distance = 3,
      projectile_center = {0.0625, -0.0875}, -- same as gun_turret_attack shift
      damage_modifier = 3,
      shell_particle =
      {
        name = "shell-particle",
        direction_deviation = 0.1,
        speed = 0.1,
        speed_deviation = 0.03,
        center = {0, 0},
        creation_distance = -1.925,
        starting_frame_speed = 0.2,
        starting_frame_speed_deviation = 0.1
      },
      range = 15,
      cyclic_sound =
      {
        begin_sound =
        {
          {
            filename = "__base__/sound/fight/flamethrower-start.ogg",
            volume = 0.7
          }
        },
        middle_sound =
        {
          {
            filename = "__base__/sound/fight/flamethrower-mid.ogg",
            volume = 0.7
          }
        },
        end_sound =
        {
          {
            filename = "__base__/sound/fight/flamethrower-end.ogg",
            volume = 0.7
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },

Greetings,
Krayt