wtf is up with cant equip a item in ammo slot

[neol19]

wtf is up with se why cant pup equip anything in ammo slot while got an animator its not a weapon but se i guess thinks it is i notice there are some decent stuff tht wud help automaton but cant put it in ammo slot cus of the animator lol kind of stupid its not a weapon its a gd device used to communicate with the automaton why cant thy get tht thr there head i love pup just some things thy need to address it ty for listening

[xbobx]

I heard if you had the ability to equip an item in your ammo slot with an animator, it would improve your ability to type.

[Kysaiana]

It's because the ammo slot is reserved for the ever-so-useful automaton oils.

[Dfoley]

Bad typing aside, Animators are considered weapons when you .dat mine them. They always come up as 1 dmg 999 dly or something.

As a weapon, only 'ammo' can be equipped, and as such oil is the only ammo for said weapon. I wish you just had to have a useable animator/oils in your inventory and could use w/e ammo slot item you wanted.

[katz]

its also not that hard to write the macro to only equip the animator when you need to use it and equip ammo/range when you have finished.

[Dfoley]

Need to check but 99% sure that kills all to so no thanks

[Kristal]

All items going into the ranged and ammo slot belong to a certain group, and only items from the same group can coexist in both ranged and ammo slots.

[Ranged]/[Ammo]
----------------
bow/arrow
gun/bullet
cannon/shell
instrument/-
throwing(return)/-
-/throwing(ammo)
-/melee(ammo)
rod/bait
misc1/-
-/misc2
animator/oil
-/jugpet
-/petfood

That doesn't explain why animators cause TP loss on equip/unequip though. Perhaps BST originally needed whips in the ranged slot to order their pets around, but the idea got scrapped until PUP came along.