Wimpy Question But I'm New

turtle.up(3) doesn't go up 3 times. It has no error, and it goes up 1 time. What am I supposed to put inside of the (). I've looked on the wiki but I can't find the list of codes for turtles.

Split into new topic.

Movement functions don't take arguments:

turtle.up()
turtle.up()
turtle.up()

or:

for i = 1, 3 do
  turtle.up()
end

You could make a function that does it though, a bit like this

function up(amount)
  for i = 1, amount do
    turtle.up()
  end
end

you don't have to put anything in the (). when ever there is () doesn't mean you have to enter something.

Another alternative:

turtle._up = turtle.up
turtle.up = function(amt)
   for i=1,amt do
	  turtle._up()
   end
end

That will override the original turtle API function and provide a function similar to what Lord_Spelunky suggested. To me, it's cleaner when calling the function.