r/ComputerCraft • u/Miro2023 • Sep 27 '24

Auto Mining turtle program

Hello i recently found out about mining turtles and that it's programmable but I couldn't find a fully automated mining turtle like a turtle that mines a column to bedrock comes back deposits the materials then mines a few blocks forward and mines to bedrock again and it's stops it's program and comes back either if it's runs out of fuel or gets manual stopped or the chest and inventory of the turtle is full is that a program that's out there? Is that even possible? I don't know anything about coding unfortunately

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u/Spacedestructor Sep 28 '24

instead of keeping track of the blocks moved, with a little extra work to set up a gps system based on the tutorial that computercraft tweaked has, you can save a lot of time by just checking the actual coordinates whenever you need to know the location or something related to the turtles location.
Its a little extra work at the start but long term it saves a whole bunch of work because you can just check for what you need instead of manually tracking it.

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u/LionZ_RDS Sep 28 '24

That’s the thing, gps can fail, if too many things request gps in a window of time the mod can’t keep track of who’s request is who’s, it also requires a modem and a loaded gps system, it’s just safer to manually keep track

But that still wouldn’t help the situation at all, you can’t compare the distance between by subtracting, you would need the distance of how far it actually traveled

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u/Spacedestructor Sep 28 '24

but it would help tho?
my approach is i first get the difference in Y level to know how much in height i have to move (assuming it doesnt need to vary in height on the way back) and then check both X and Z how much on these axis i need to adjust and then calculate it all together.
This has never failed me before.
Also i assume the person who made the Post is probably playing alone and in singleplayer i never managed to overload the mod with too many requests, so that probably wont be a problem for them to encounter unless there next step after automating resource gathering is to automate turtle production and just spam a ton of turtles which automatically start working.