5.56x45mm NATO magazine
| 5.56x45mm NATO magazine | |
|---|---|
| |
| Category: | Consumables |
| Status: | Unavailable |
| Function: | |
| Serves as ammunition for the Automatic Rifle and Interior Turrets. | |
| Mass: | 0.45 kg |
| Volume: | 0.20 L |
| Data Controls: | [edit] [purge] (?) |
| Obsolete! This article is about something now obsolete that is no longer present in Space Engineers. The page stays on the Wiki for historic purposes. |
A 
5.56x45mm NATO magazine is an ammunition item that can be used to load any type of rifle as well as 
Interior Turrets.
In Update 1.198 ("Warfare 1: Field Engineer"),[1] the ability to produce this type if ammunition in assemblers was removed due to an overhaul to handheld weaponry. The 5.56x45mm NATO magazines' purpose was superseded by the 
MR-20, 
MR-50A, 
MR-8P, and 
MR-30E magazines.
However, 5.56x45mm NATO magazines still exist in the game as they can still be found inside cargo containers and interior turrets of legacy grids, including some of the Cargo Ships and Random Encounters that can be enabled in the World Settings when creating or loading a saved game.
Usage
Unlike the newer specialised magazine types, legacy 5.56x45mm NATO magazines can be loaded into every type of rifle in the game: the 
MR-20, 
MR-50A, 
MR-8P, and 
MR-30E rifles.
Rifles (as well as turrets) loaded with a 5.56x45mm NATO magazine will always load 30 bullets from it. All of the gun's other stats remains the same as it does with its normal type of ammunition, making the 5.56x45mm NATO magazines particularly useful for MR-8P Rifle (which would otherwise only get 8 bullets from its MR-8P Magazines).
Using 5.56x45mm NATO magazines to load Interior Turrets is not recommended, as they only contain 30 bullets as opposed to the MR-50A Magazine's 50.
Assembly
Since update 1.198, the 5.56x45mm NATO magazine can no longer be produced in any 
Assembler.
In previous versions of the game, it could be produced in an assembler using the same materials that are now used to produce MR-20 Magazines: 0.80 
Iron Ingot, 0.20 
Nickel Ingot, and 0.15 
Magnesium Powder.
