Turtles and timers?

Hey guys,

I'm planning to lay down a looooong track of transport pipe and having a turtle set down a filter, timer, and chest to catch his tunnelling drops. Then moving over and repeating the process. The only issue I'm running into is having the turtle change the delay on the timer.

Is this possible? If not, can you think of any better way to handle this issue? Is there an item that can the turtle can unload into that would push the items into a transport pipe? Would a relay accomplish this without any redstone or blutricity? If relays work the way I think they work, a turtle could place one and replace the entire Filter, Timer, Chest setup.

Thanks for the help guys!

I don't think I understood the question, but this may help. Try the command sleep()
Example: sleep(1) will make the turtle wait one second before moving on to the next set of commands.

Sadly no, there is no way to have the turtles interact with RP2 timers and change the delay. Your best/easiest option is to use the Relay fro RP as it does not need a redstone pulse and can output to a RP tube or spit out to an obsidian pipe from BC.

TheOriginalBIT, on 15 March 2013 - 03:01 PM said:

Sadly no, there is no way to have the turtles interact with RP2 timers and change the delay. Your best/easiest option is to use the Relay fro RP as it does not need a redstone pulse and can output to a RP tube or spit out to an obsidian pipe from BC.

So if I have a relay connected to a pipe, the turtle can just drop into the relay and it will spit the items into a pipe?

aarondmorgan, on 15 March 2013 - 03:05 PM said:

So if I have a relay connected to a pipe, the turtle can just drop into the relay and it will spit the items into a pipe?

Yes. :)/>
The small hole on the relay is the output side, it will output to another inventory, or a RP tube, or on the ground. to get it to a BC pipe you need an obsidian pipe sitting on its output to pick up the item and send it down the BC pipe.
Then all you use is turtle.select(<slot_number>) and turtle.drop() to put the items from the turtle slot into the Relay. :)/>

TheOriginalBIT, on 15 March 2013 - 03:09 PM said:

aarondmorgan, on 15 March 2013 - 03:05 PM said:

So if I have a relay connected to a pipe, the turtle can just drop into the relay and it will spit the items into a pipe?

Yes. :)/>
The small hole on the relay is the output side, it will output to another inventory, or a RP tube, or on the ground. to get it to a BC pipe you need an obsidian pipe sitting on its output to pick up the item and send it down the BC pipe.
Then all you use is turtle.select(<slot_number>) and turtle.drop() to put the items from the turtle slot into the Relay. :)/>

Oh that's glorious.

I'm going to have 3-4 turtles running in parallel with one turtle also responsible for moving the "Mining Boss Computer." This makes the whole operation much easier. Woot!