[2021] Melting down normal Ammo to make AP

You would be WAAAAAAY better off selling the ammo to the trader and smelting the resultant dukes than to smelt the ammo directly. (Plus you could use the dukes to buy any brass items the trader has before smelting them.)

Originally posted by SnowBee: Just wanted to make a followup comment concerning this.
I did some testing now, and with my current bartering level, and whatever else is maybe affecting my findings, overall it appears to be better if I smelt my ammo. This is if I was purely looking for the most brass.

If I smelt a 150 stack of 7.62mm ammunition in the forge, I get 750 bronze.
If I sell a 150 stack of 7.62 ammunition, I get 429 dukes. This translates to 429 bronze if smelted.
If I scrap the ammunition, I get 562 bronze.

My conclusion is that it is actually better to smelt my normal ammunition. So yeah, as I am starting to stack up the number of dukes, I think I will smelt dukes and normal ammo. I do keep my 9mm ammo as my turret SMG's can't get enough of it. However, my 7.62mm is really piling up now (I have an entire crate full of it).

It could be more balanced if sometimes throwing stacks of ammo in a fire made it explode! 💥😆💥

(And no, I don’t want to hear from a know-it-all how that would or wouldn’t happen. Hollywood physics is more fun.)