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Hello,

Currently ammo_category only works for landmines, for now I made a map from name of entity to turret type, however this is not scalable to other mods;

• Rocket turret and Gun turret both have the type ammo-turret and therefore need to look at the name.
• You cannot split the "gun" part of gun-turret name because the ammo type is "bullet"; string.match(CopyFromName, "(%a+)%-turret")

Would it be possible to add LuaEntityPrototype.ammo_category for all turret types?
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... o_category

If there is another way to get it and have overlooked it please let me know as well.

Yes, you have: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... parameters
It helps to check the prototype docs and see how it was specified to begin with.

Thank you for letting me know, I definitely overlooked that.
I am looking through the 3 doc types (prototype, runtime and auxiliary) but sometimes it is difficult to determine where it is, appreciate your help!

You can also check the actual code defining the prototype.

I did not realize this as well and is very useful!
Thank you again!