"Farming Turtle" on non-vanilla crops

Hi everyone,

i'm using a farming turtle which works just as I want on vanilla crop. I am using another mod though ("Pam' Harvestcraft" for those who are interested) which doesn't work quite so well… Maybe someone knows a way to work around my problem.

My turtle is basically hovering over the crop, tilling the dirt, planting seeds…
after the crop grows it returns and does:

- turtle.digDown (harvesting)
- turtle.digDown (tilling in case someone messed up the plot)
- turtle.placeDown (planting a new seed)

as the non vanilla crops are not getting picked up automatically i'm trying to catch the harvested crops with

- turtle.digDown (harvesting)
- turtle.suckDown (pick up crops)
- turtle.digDown (tilling in case someone messed up the plot)
- turtle.placeDown (planting a new seed)


unfortunately because of the spread of "dropped" items in minecraft I only manage to "suck" about 20% of my harvest…

Does anybody have an idea on how to solve this problems or even just increase the pickup rate…?

I'm open to any ideas…

You could always try changing `turtle.suckDown()` to:

turtle.suckDown()
turtle.down()
for i = 1, 4 do
  turtle.suck()
  turtle.turnLeft()
end
turtle.up()

Or just flow water across the field to move the drops to one location and pick them up there.

Thanks for the tip… I actually ended up doing that way and it works great.
I was under the impression that when I added the turtle down movement a lot more of the drops were picked up by "sucking down" (prio to actually do the turtle.down)… Is that possible?

With the way my fields are arranged I still have a very few dropping into the water but the quota is where it should be. This may not be the most efficient way to harvest but I like the way it looks…



(Action shot of my fully automated harvest turtle which is controlled an monitored by that computer back there…)