Breeding with Turtles

turtle.select(1) –carrot, wheat, seeds
turtle.place() –breed
turtle.placeDown() –breed down
turtle.placeUp() –breed up

I assumed this was already part of ComputerCraft but apparently it isn't. If we can turtle.attack(), turtle.attackUp() and turtle.attackDown(), why can't we turtle.place() with a breedable item in the slot? place() works for buckets, flint & steel, and other things that require a "right-click" action, but it doesn't work with breeding animals.

Apparently there's a misc peripheral that feeds any animal within a 3x3x3 area centered around the turtle. That's actually overpowered in my opinion. I'd rather have to specify the direction: place(), placeUp(), placeDown().

For a second I thought you wanted little Turtle babies…

But you have a valid point. I haven't tested this myself but if it isn't working it definitely should be added. Are you 100% certain it doesn't work?

We already do have breedable turtles. They're called Crafty Turtles ;)/>

I'm 100% certain turtle.placeDown() doesn't work for pigs occupying the only air block immediately below a turtle and a carrot in the active slot. I used the lua prompt to test.

Perhaps the turtle tried to plant (through the pig) the carrot on untilled soil. Applying the action by line-of-sight would eliminate this ambiguity: if a mob or player exists, apply action to that instead of the block.

Last time I tested forward sheep feeding worked.

Okay, close this thread. This feature is implemented. My testing wasn't careful enough.

What's missing are the hearts that appear when one animal is "primed" for breeding but hasn't found a mate yet. That and the weird hitboxes of animals threw me off. Sorry! Cudos to Dan for implementing this! :)/>

Buho, on 29 November 2013 - 10:16 PM said:

Okay, close this thread. This feature is implemented. My testing wasn't careful enough.

What's missing are the hearts that appear when one animal is "primed" for breeding but hasn't found a mate yet. That and the weird hitboxes of animals threw me off. Sorry! Cudos to Dan for implementing this! :)/>

If the hearts aren't appearing that's still likely a bug though.