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## About The Pull Request  So, as you may know, I really like the bootleg weaponry this game has, but after dealing with gun code for the crossbow, I wasnt inclined to make more of it. However, when I'm playing ss13 I often have background noise on, and one day I was listening to an age of empires game, which, if you aren't aware, is basically a medival rts, featuring a weapon called an "organ gun". Said organ gun is basically 8 or so muskets stuck together firing at once. And well, given SS13 has pipeguns, also called muskets, I couldnt pass up the pun of "pipe organ gun." And thats why this pr exists. However, as I am noticing I have a habit of doing, I tend to end up coding more than I ever initially planned. So what does it add? Well, lets start with the pipe organ gun. <img width="428" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0cb93fb9-6ed3-4cb1-a340-0b54832ac577"> The pipe organ gun is made from wood, pipes, iron, typical maints weapon stuff. Where it differs is it isn't a handheld object - it's a machine you push and pull around akin to say, the pirate cannons. It can hold up to 8 pipegun shells, and launches them all at once when lit with anything that ignites stuff, like a welder, match, torch, etc. It does a lot of damage, but requires time to reload, and a smart enemy can just lie down and ignore it. Or maybe it'll just roll 8 of the really bad ammo types and do nothing, who knows. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ee1353b-c965-4f47-aa22-4f5cfeb04c51 Initially I planned to use the cannon code as a base, but that presented a lot of issues, as they need to use cannonballs (which arent ammo in the traditonal sense), along with only being single shot among other things. So I made an entire new type of structure called Mounted guns, which are like cannons that can use conventional ballistic ammo, and dont have any of the restrictions, and made to be customizable. You want a gun that takes plasma bars as ammo and launches fireballs? it can do that. You want to have a rebar ballista, that can shoot up to 3 rods at once, but only needs to be loaded once? It can do that too. Hell, you could probably just make full-on gun emplacements with some code changes. If it's a projectile, it can shoot it, and if its an object, it can use it as ammo. A list of the current stuff you can change is below. <img width="510" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/107abbc1-a004-4724-9627-a3388f92cd63"> Which leads me to the second gun I added, which is more of an example of what can be done with the mounted_gun class. The canister gatling spawns on the flying dutchman pirate ship, with enough ammo for five shots. <img width="453" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/46fdc16e-813a-4e14-b25a-9cf49d245ca6"> Five shots may not sound like much at first - but thats because each shot is a burst of 50 individual shrapnel bullets. It's unable to break any walls or doors except for windows, but against anything that isnt a structure... well, as shown below, they'll have a very bad day. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3519c49d-97e6-4095-99cf-ee8039adbaba If people like these concepts, I genuinely might add that engineering rebar ballista. ## Why It's Good For The Game As said above, I'm a big fan of the whole improvised armory concept ss13 has, and the fact the only "big" gun featured is the trash cannon (which is locked behind maint loot) is a shame. I felt the pipe-organ gun was a good compromise - as stated, its just eight pipeguns stuck together, with all the strengths (high damage output) and weaknesses (slow reload, needs to be dragged around, cant hit people on the floor, cant damage walls) that it lacks. As for the canister gatling, I dont forsee it being a massive problem, as it cant breach walls or doors, so it isn't just a better cannon. ## Changelog 🆑 WebcomicArtist add: Added pipe-organ gun: a buildable object akin to trash cannon that takes pipegun rounds, and shoots up to 8 off at once. add: Added The Canister Gatling, a rapid fire but non-destructive cannon for skeleton pirates. Also Canister shot ammo. sound: Added sounds for the above guns. image: Added sprites for the guns as well. code: Added a whole "mounted_gun" class that is basically cannons but you aren't forced to use cannonballs as ammo and load them with gunpowder. /🆑