miningturtle stop going forward

Hello

I have been playng aroud with Direwolf20 fead the beast and mining turtles.
but they stop going forward för some reason…

I have a simple program and I had the turtle fail when I used 2 different while loops with os.sleep(0.5) in them…
when I added the RED line of code the turtle stopped going forward… and I cant get it fixed, all turtles stop going forward,
excavate still works though.


program: (it digs a 3 high corridor and places torches when it works.)

local run = 0

term.write("length: ")
run = read()

for i = 0, run do

while turtle.detect() do
turtle.dig()
os.sleep(0.5)
end
turtle.forward()

while turtle.detectUp() do
turtle.digUp()
os.sleep(0.5)
end

turtle.digDown()

if(i %6) == 1 then
turtle.turnLeft()
turtle.turnLeft()
turtle.forward()
turtle.turnLeft()
turtle.select(16)
turtle.placeUp()
turtle.turnLeft()
turtle.forward()
end

end

turtle.turnLeft()
turtle.turnLeft()
for i = 0, run do
turtle.forward()
end

Spoiler

<p>It's not os.sleep. It is just sleep.<br>That is what I see, though there is probably more.<br><br>Here is your code, I fixed the problem I saw.<br>

<br>local run = 0<br>term.write("length: ")<br>run = read()<br>for i = 0, run do<br>while turtle.detect() do<br>turtle.dig()<br>os.sleep(0.5)<br>end<br>turtle.forward()<br>while turtle.detectUp() do<br>turtle.digUp()<br>sleep(0.5)<br>end<br>turtle.digDown()<br>if(i %6) == 1 then<br>turtle.turnLeft()<br>turtle.turnLeft()<br>turtle.forward()<br>turtle.turnLeft()<br>turtle.select(16)<br>turtle.placeUp()<br>turtle.turnLeft()<br>turtle.forward()<br>end<br>end<br>turtle.turnLeft()<br>turtle.turnLeft()<br>for i = 0, run do<br>turtle.forward()<br>end<br>

<br></p>

I did a horrible job responding to this, the OP is in the spoiler, but do not look at it. It is horrible.

os.sleep and sleep both work, but there is however no reason to use sleep in a loop with a turtle action. Using turtle.back() instead of turning around 2 times and going back would probably be a good idea. Aside from that, there's nothing immediately wrong about this code. You sure you got fuel? Also what the hell can you divide 6 by to get one left over? wouldn't i%(number you want) == 0 be better?