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[Turtles] What requires fuel?

Started by oli414, 23 October 2014 - 12:59 PM
oli414 #1
Posted 23 October 2014 - 02:59 PM
In the time that I were used to mess around with computercraft turtles didn't require fuel. Now after some time I started messing around with computercraft again and found out about "fuel".
I searched around the wiki for a bit and couldn't really get an answer to this question:

What methods from the turtle API cost fuel to perform?

The wiki says: "The Turtle can move 1 block for each fuel count it has." Does this mean that turtle.turnLeft/Right() don't require fuel? And methods like: inspect, detect, compare, suck and drop don't require any fuel either?

I hope someone could make it clear!
theoriginalbit #2
Posted 23 October 2014 - 03:32 PM
you are indeed correct. only when a Turtle moves does it consume fuel. meaning you can rotate it or anything else, free of charge.

be aware though that some 3rd-party peripherals do consume fuel for their own tasks as well.
oli414 #3
Posted 23 October 2014 - 04:50 PM
Thank you! Now I'm less scared to turn on fuel consumption :-P