Box of shotgun shells

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Box of shells, MAP03 of Doom II

A box of shells is an ammo pickup containing 20 shells for the shotgun or super shotgun (40 at the I'm Too Young To Die and Nightmare! skill levels).

Operation of the shotgun is somewhat inconsistent. A sergeant's shotgun produces three pellets when fired, but the player's shotgun fires seven pellets per shell. Furthermore, the super shotgun fires twenty pellets, potentially causing nearly three times the damage as the shotgun while using only twice the ammunition.

Each pellet does between 5 and 15 hit points of damage (determined using Doom's pseudorandom number generator), the same as a bullet fired by the pistol or chaingun.

Box of shells data
Thing type 2049 (decimal), 801 (hex)
Appears in Shareware Doom
Registered Doom
Ultimate Doom
Doom II/Final Doom
Radius 20
Sprite SBOX
Class Ammo
Pickup

Appearance statistics

The IWADs contain the following numbers of shell boxes:

Game ITYTD and HNTR HMP UV and NM
Ultimate Doom 134 130 133
Doom II 117 121 121
TNT: Evilution 250 259 265
Plutonia 316 315 315

See also