Handloading Expanded

This mod expands the options for crafting your own ammo for weapons using the Guns skill.  Like several other mods, it gives the Player Character the option to craft their own versions of the factory ammo types like Armor Piercing and Hollow Points, but it also adds in those options for ammo types that lacked them entirely.  Unlike other mods, this also adds more ammo types that are grounded in reality and serve useful gameplay purposes, but without overshadowing types already in the game.  This mod aims to increase the choices you make while deciding how to equip your courier by giving more interesting options. 

As of version 1.5, All factory ammo types (that is, non-handloads) have breakdown recipes.  "Weak" ammo types also gained a new method of acquisition, via bulk boxes.   9mm Plinking, .44 Special, .40 S&W, .50 AE, .45-55 Carbine, and 7.62 NATO rounds can all be bought in bulk from Chet's Goodsprings General Store.  Plinking ammo comes in a 100 count brick, the other pistol rounds come in 50 round boxes, and the rifle rounds come in 20 round boxes.  

This list shows what is added in the mod.  Items in Italics existed in the game, but lacked creation recipes.  Items in Bold are totally new additions.  


.22 Long Rifle: Plinking, Hollow Point, Match Handload

.357 Magnum: .38 Special, Hollow Point, Jacketed Flatpoint Handload

.44 Magnum: .44 Special, Hollow Point, Semi-Wadcutter Handload


9mm: Plinking, Hollow Point, Overpressure, Jacketed Hollow Point Handload

10mm: .40 S&W, Hollow Point, Overpressure, Jacketed Hollow Point Handload

12.7mm: .50 AE, Hollow Point, Overpressure, Jacketed Hollow Point Handload

.45 Auto: Hollow Point, Overpressure, Super Handload, Match Handload



5mm: Surplus, Hollow Point, Armor Piercing, Jacketed Soft Point Handload

5.56mm: Surplus, .223, Hollow Point, Armor Piercing, Match Handload, Flex Tip Handload.

.308: 7.62 NATO, Hollow Point, Armor Piercing, Jacketed Soft Point Handload.

.45-70 Government: .45-55 Carbine Reduced Load, Hollow Point, Semi-Wadcutter Handload

.50 BMG:  Armor Piercing, Incendiary, Explosive, Match Handload

There are now two patches for compatibility.  The first is for Jusmar's 5.56 Explosive Rounds.  Both mods edit the 5.56 ammot list, so you need a patch for them to work together.  The second is a replacement .esp file for use with Mojave Arsenal.  Technically the mods work together fine, but they both add a lot to the crafting lists.  This .esp discards the duplicates, making for a cleaner experience if you use both mods like I do. Note, this is a replacement .esp, not strictly a patch, don't use both the base mod's esp and this together.