Coding for a miner turtle

I need to figure out how to code my turtle to mine straight forward at 3 blocks high (3x1)
my code at the moment is

turtle.refuel()
print("Refuled turtle!") do
turtle.digForward()
turtle.forward()
turtle.digUp()
turtle.up()


im not going though the whole code because its basically the same with 1 end and the bottom
i get this attempt to call nil error and i dont know what im doing wrong.
please help

hondarider58, on 09 April 2013 - 03:33 PM said:

I need to figure out how to code my turtle to mine straight forward at 3 blocks high (3x1)
my code at the moment is

turtle.refuel()
print("Refuled turtle!") do
turtle.digForward()
turtle.forward()
turtle.digUp()
turtle.up()


im not going though the whole code because its basically the same with 1 end and the bottom
i get this attempt to call nil error and i dont know what im doing wrong.
please help

turtle.digForward() should be turtle.dig()

if you find yourself making this mistake quite often it may be worth you putting this line of code at the top of your programs

turtle.digForward = turtle.dig

also if your code is just lots of what you have posted, then you are better to just have the code once and use a loop to have it run multiple times. for example

for i = 1, 10 do
  -- the code in here will run 10 times
end

it also means you can have a number that you start the program with to state how many times you want it to move

local times = tonumber( ... ) -- ... gets the arguments that the program was run with, in this case we are only using the first.
if not times then -- if they didn't give anything or it wasn't a number
  print("You did not tell me how many times to run") -- tell them off
  return -- dont run the rest of the program
end
for i = 1, times do
  -- this code will run as many times as is entered when running the program
end

ok i have it working to the point where it does it once and then stops, i am going to put the code in for it to do it multiple times. but this is a quarry so is there an infinite code that the code runs infinity and i can just type in how far i want it to go?

also where do i put the loop code, at the beginning before all of my commands or after them?

disregard everything i have posted it is working now. :)/> one more question, is there a code for placing touches every like 12 blocks that would be amazing

there is a way to do it. you have to have a variable to track how far your turtle has moved, but take this code as an example.

for i = 1, 200 do -- repeat this code 200 times
  turtle.forward()
  if i % 12 == 0 then -- if the distance moved is a multiple of 12
    -- code to place the torch
  end
end

in this case i is the distance moved. if you use another kind of loop, you will need to add your own variable to track how many times it has moved.

thanks this really helped. my hand are tired of writing code but it all good. should bring in a steady income of ores in FTB. :lol:/>