Ammo80

The round is not a cost, it is half the weapon. Each type contributes damage, velocity and knockback on top of whatever the launcher brings, and picks up your bonuses from armor and buffs the same way the weapon does. That is why a mid-tier gun loaded properly beats a better gun firing basics, and why upgrading what you shoot is cheaper than upgrading what you shoot it with.

Some of this list does something other than damage. Solutions fired from a Clentaminator rewrite biomes and hurt nothing, darts carry status effects, and rockets tear up terrain, which will gut the arena you spent an hour building.

Consumption is not guaranteed. Several weapons, armor pieces and the Ammo Box each add a chance to fire without spending a round, and those chances combine rather than override each other. The endless variants such as the Endless Quiver sidestep the problem entirely and are worth crafting the moment you can spare the stacks. Bait, paint, wire and actuators also sit in these slots, which is four free inventory spaces when you are hauling building supplies.