Posted 19 February 2013 - 09:39 PM

This is a fantastically useful script! Thank you very much for sharing it! I currently have 4 turtles (1 in each of the cardinal directions) mining 100x100 quarries down to bedrock, the fuel savings over excavate is enormous!



However, as you have established that you are using this for FTB, I would like to suggest one addition that could significantly increase the speed and efficiency of you mine turtles:



Add in a few lines so that the turtle carries around a (properly color-coded) ender-chest, when the turtle gets full, it places the chest next to itself and unloads into the chest, then it mines the chest puts it back into its inventory and continues on its way, you cut out a significant chunk of the time and fuel that would otherwise be used for the turtle to get back to its home chest. I supposed the catch would be to make sure that the turtle does not try and place it into a spot that is filled by, for example, gravel or sand.



This may also assist in allowing you to create more esoteric shapes in the process of mining, as you no longer need a straight path back to the home chest.



Also, just to note, this idea is in no way original to me, there is at least one Direwolf20 episode where he does something similar, but in reverse, pulling building materials out of the chest (just to note it would be possible to refuel in this manner to by pulling fuel out of a automatically stocked ender-chest), instead of putting mined materials in. Likewise I've seen the concept implemented in other modded Minecraft videos too.



Finally: you note that you use world anchors and sentinels, however have you tired this with chunk-loading turtles? I could never get chunk-loading turtles to work with excavate, so I have yet to try it with this script.

