Ammo Casing Return 0.7 - 0.8

Returns spent bullet casings and shotgun shells to your inventory after firing a weapon. Lightweight standalone PAK mod with NO UE4SS requirement.

Install either the Inventory Version OR the Physical Casings Version. Do not use both at the same time.

The Physical version was made following a request from the Nexus community and ended up taking another ~4 hours of Unreal Engine experimentation to get working properly.

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What does the mod do?

Ammo Casing Return automatically adds the appropriate spent casing to your inventory whenever you fire a supported firearm.

• []Pistols → Bullet Casing [/]

  []SMGs → Bullet Casing [/]

  []Assault Rifles → Bullet Casing [/]

  []Rifles → Bullet Casing [/]

  []Sniper Rifles → Bullet Casing [/]

  []Shotguns → Shell Casing [/]

You receive one casing per fired round.

Shotguns return one Shell Casing per shot rather than one casing for every pellet, because apparently we still have to respect basic physics somewhere.

Launcher-type weapons such as grenade launchers are intentionally excluded and do not magically produce conventional firearm casings.

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Standalone PAK Mod

This is a completely standalone .pak mod.

No UE4SS required.

No scripts required.

No additional mod loader required.

Just install the PAK and start the game normally.

The mod directly modifies SurrounDead's firearm firing logic, which took considerably longer to get working than that sentence makes it sound.

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Installation

AmmoCasingReturn_P.pakCopy it into:

SurrounDead\SurrounDead\Content\PaksThen launch the game normally.

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Uninstallation

AmmoCasingReturn_P.pakfrom:

SurrounDead\SurrounDead\Content\Paks

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Game Version

Created and tested with SurrounDead 0. 7. 1g

This version of the mod is specifically built around the firearm Blueprint from 0. 7. 1g.

SurrounDead 0. 8 compatibility is not guaranteed.

Because 0. 8 contains major internal changes, a separate version of the mod may be required.

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Tested Weapons

The mod has been tested with multiple firearm types including:

• []Deadeye [/]

  []Valkyrie [/]

  []M2010 [/]

  []Shotguns [/]

  []Grenade Launcher exclusion [/]

Both magazine-fed and chamber-fed weapons are supported.

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Compatibility

This mod modifies:

BP_FirearmPickupAny other mod that replaces the same firearm Blueprint may conflict with Ammo Casing Return.

Mods that only modify weapon stats, items, textures or unrelated systems should generally be unaffected unless they also replace this asset.

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Why?

Mostly because I wanted ammunition crafting to make a little more sense.

If I fire 30 rounds, there were 30 cartridge cases involved somewhere. Having every casing evaporate immediately after firing felt unnecessarily wasteful, especially in a survival game where recycling materials actually ma