Fortunate characters may have access to the machinery and tooling of certain factories, enabling a range of '''advanced services''' that may allow handloaders to manufacture their components straight from raw materials. Access to these services should be ''restricted'' to most characters, but makes for a good quest reward.
Three services can be provided by an '''ammunition factory''' ([[Aosaidan]], [[Ellen Sector]]):
* '''Factory-assisted handloading''': If you have the components, but no kits, or if you simply want the hassle of loading ammunition to be handled by machines, you may deliver all compatible components to a factory, which will load any quantity of ammunition for you in [[Time|1 day period]]. Please note that ammunition obtained this way will '''not''' result in gaining Skill Points, since you are not loading it yourself. This service costs [[File:Parallar symbol.png|10px]]'''0.10''' per round of ammunition loaded + all necessary components.
* '''Case and hull manufacture''': Detailed in its own section below
* Miscellaneous items:
** [[Crafting items#Ingredient items|Magnesium explosive (MgX) charges]], for the manufacture of API and I-Slug ammunition
** [[Crafting items#Ingredient items|Tracer charges]], for the manufacture of T ammunition
An ammunition factory will turn your metal ingots (and, if needed, your MgX charges) into fixed batches of projectiles. Because various projectiles have various masses, you must supply at least a sufficient amount of metals and charges to make a full batch. The supplied ingots will be consumed, even if there would otherwise be "leftover" metal.
<span style="color:#00AA00">'''(S)'''</span>hotgun projectiles:
* Buck, Slug: '''100% Lead'''
* D-Buck: '''100% Lead''' (Uses '''1 MgX charge per shell'''. The charge is directly inserted into the shell as a component and not actually used to fabricate a special projectile.)
* P-Buck, F-Slug: '''90% Lead + 10% Copper'''
* I-Slug: '''100% Lead + 2 1 MgX charges charge per slug'''
* Flech: '''100% Steel'''
* Coin shot: No need for raw materials; use [[Coins|nickel coins]] directly instead