How to tell 5 or more wireless turtles to tunnel and then return

Title: How To Tell 5 Or More Wireless Turtles To Tunnel And Than Return

Im trying to figure out how to get 5 or more wireless turtles to make mine shafts and than return dumping items in a chest, i have looked around youtube and used the almighty google but found nothing, Im a miner and what these turtles do for me is create mine shafts and Hallways but starting them all one by one is getting annoying and i would like them to all start at once

Thanks In Advance for the Help
Jolly

Split into new topic.

First of all, show the code you currently have. We (or at least I) have no idea what you mean by tunneling and returning.

LBPHacker, on 29 August 2013 - 07:30 AM said:

First of all, show the code you currently have. We (or at least I) have no idea what you mean by tunneling and returning.

To be honest i have no code ive gone on youtube and tried one code but, there is a command called Tunnel that creates a 2x3 tunnel for the amount of blocks specified, also i want it to come back to where is started so i don't have to walk down the 50 long hall way and get it and all i know is

fs.copy(disk/jolly"),"jolly")
rednet.open("left)

but i have no idea if i can just start turtles tunneling because as i said before im a miner in my Work server

First of all.. Check out the wiki about rednet and turtles

Spoiler

And one way you could do is to run the pre-made tunnel program from your program by doing this

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks

And if you just want it to go back after that you could do something like this

--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

But I guess you have a computer that you'd like to launch the turtles from right?
Then make a program like this that sends a message to all the turtles so they start mining together

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"

--Table with the turtles id, That I set to 1-5 here so just change them
local turtles = {
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
}

for i = 1,#turtles do
  rednet.send(turtles[i],"StartMining")
end

Now the turtles have to receive those messages and start mining when they receive them

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"[/size]

repeat
id, msg = rednet.receive()
until msg == "StartMining" and id == 1337 -- Repeats until its the message StartMining and the id is 1337 which should be changed to your comp. id

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks
--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

Hellkid98, on 29 August 2013 - 04:09 PM said:

First of all.. Check out the wiki about rednet and turtles

Spoiler

And one way you could do is to run the pre-made tunnel program from your program by doing this

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks

And if you just want it to go back after that you could do something like this

--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

But I guess you have a computer that you'd like to launch the turtles from right?
Then make a program like this that sends a message to all the turtles so they start mining together

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"

--Table with the turtles id, That I set to 1-5 here so just change them
local turtles = {
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
}

for i = 1,#turtles do
  rednet.send(turtles[i],"StartMining")
end

Now the turtles have to receive those messages and start mining when they receive them

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"[/size]

repeat
id, msg = rednet.receive()
until msg == "StartMining" and id == 1337 -- Repeats until its the message StartMining and the id is 1337 which should be changed to your comp. id

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks
--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

Okay i put all the code in as you have it written but the problem i have is it will not do the shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel, 50")
it will turn around tho but other than that i get nothing

JollyGreenFox, on 03 September 2013 - 10:26 AM said:

Hellkid98, on 29 August 2013 - 04:09 PM said:

First of all.. Check out the wiki about rednet and turtles

Spoiler

And one way you could do is to run the pre-made tunnel program from your program by doing this

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks

And if you just want it to go back after that you could do something like this

--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

But I guess you have a computer that you'd like to launch the turtles from right?
Then make a program like this that sends a message to all the turtles so they start mining together

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"

--Table with the turtles id, That I set to 1-5 here so just change them
local turtles = {
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
}

for i = 1,#turtles do
  rednet.send(turtles[i],"StartMining")
end

Now the turtles have to receive those messages and start mining when they receive them

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"[/size]

repeat
id, msg = rednet.receive()
until msg == "StartMining" and id == 1337 -- Repeats until its the message StartMining and the id is 1337 which should be changed to your comp. id

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks
--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

Okay i put all the code in as you have it written but the problem i have is it will not do the shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel, 50")
it will turn around tho but other than that i get nothing

I think it should be

shell.run("/rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This is arguments you enter and 50 should not be a string..

This is the same as doing

tunnel 50

Hellkid98, on 03 September 2013 - 11:21 AM said:

JollyGreenFox, on 03 September 2013 - 10:26 AM said:

Hellkid98, on 29 August 2013 - 04:09 PM said:

First of all.. Check out the wiki about rednet and turtles

Spoiler

And one way you could do is to run the pre-made tunnel program from your program by doing this

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks

And if you just want it to go back after that you could do something like this

--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

But I guess you have a computer that you'd like to launch the turtles from right?
Then make a program like this that sends a message to all the turtles so they start mining together

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"

--Table with the turtles id, That I set to 1-5 here so just change them
local turtles = {
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
}

for i = 1,#turtles do
  rednet.send(turtles[i],"StartMining")
end

Now the turtles have to receive those messages and start mining when they receive them

rednet.open(sideHere) --Like "top", "bottom", "back", "front", "left", "right"[/size]

repeat
id, msg = rednet.receive()
until msg == "StartMining" and id == 1337 -- Repeats until its the message StartMining and the id is 1337 which should be changed to your comp. id

shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This would run the tunnel program and let it mine for 50 blocks
--Turning around, 180
for i = 1,2 do
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

-- Moving forward 50 blocks (This is the part where it goes back to you)
for i = 1,50 do
   turtle.forward()
end

Okay i put all the code in as you have it written but the problem i have is it will not do the shell.run("rom/programs/turtle/tunnel, 50")
it will turn around tho but other than that i get nothing

I think it should be

shell.run("/rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50) --This is arguments you enter and 50 should not be a string..

This is the same as doing

tunnel 50

right i understand that but i put it in the turtle and it only spun and says No such Program

Hmm.. Have you tested just using 'shell.run("tunnel", 50)'

Edit: Tested using 'shell.run("tunnel", 50)' and 'shell.run("/rom/programs/turtle/tunnel", 50' and both worked.. Are you using a mining turtle or are you missing the tunnel program?

Do this to check that you have it:

cd rom/programs/turtle
ls

Then tunnel should show up

And make sure that it is 'tunnel' and not 'Tunnel' or something since Lua is case sensitive