My Mining Program (Help to Test It!)

Hi,

I have made my first "Complex" mining program, its not that complex really. I plan on adding allot more so i can call it a complex program :D/>.

pastebin:

Spoiler

Version 1.0.1 LvHiVELx, http://pastebin.com/LvHiVELx
- Added safty guard so if you enter a string for the tunnel length it will ask to reenter (Same for the y/n question) (Thanks to valithor for pointing this error out)

Version 1.0: x10kDL6E, http://pastebin.com/x10kDL6E

Video of my program: https://www.youtube....f2j9orcOjYVIk4Q

This is Version 1.0, I plan on releasing more updates in a couple of days.

Things to do:

1. Puts Down chest when inventory is full.
2. Puts torchs down.
3. Says the percentage down.
4. Sends rednet message to computer and works on monitor

Test my program, make suggestions and have fun!

Thanks,

-The_Cat

The_Cat, on 06 December 2014 - 02:03 AM said:

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I have not actually tested it, but after reading over it I noticed that it would likely error on line 93 for number expected received string. The read() function returns a string, so if you wish to enter a number you need to do var = tonumber(read()). That will convert what is entered to a number if it can be converted, otherwise it will return nil

edit: If it does not error, then I am sorry posted this on like 4 hours of sleep.

valithor, on 06 December 2014 - 03:51 AM said:

The_Cat, on 06 December 2014 - 02:03 AM said:

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I have not actually tested it, but after reading over it I noticed that it would likely error on line 93 for number expected received string. The read() function returns a string, so if you wish to enter a number you need to do var = tonumber(read()). That will convert what is entered to a number if it can be converted, otherwise it will return nil

edit: If it does not error, then I am sorry posted this on like 4 hours of sleep.

Yes, your right it does throw back a 93 error i will try and fix that today :)/> (Love weekends :D/>)

Also your video is private…

civilwargeeky, on 09 December 2014 - 12:44 AM said:

Also your video is private…

Fixed now. Thanks.

The_Cat, on 06 December 2014 - 10:23 AM said:

Yes, your right it does throw back a 93 error i will try and fix that today :)/> (Love weekends :D/>)

The error you received was not a 93 error. It was an error on line 93. The error was, number expected got string.

I can give bit code that may help you in Puts Down chest when inventory is full.

if turtle.getItemCount(16)>0 then -- if there is item on 16 slot then it will run this
   turtle.select(2) -- slot be your slot with chest
   turtle.digDown() -- dig hole where you can put your chest
   turtle.placeDown() -- place the chest
   for slot = 5, 16 do -- You need select slot
      turtle.select(slot) -- select slot
      turtle.dropDown() -- drop of item into chest
      sleep(0.8) -- small fix for slow pc
   end -- end for loop
end -- end if statement

and torch: just make code that count from start from mine let say 10 block then turtle turn around and select torch slot then place torch and turn around aging done

johnneijzen, on 14 December 2014 - 03:27 PM said:

I can give bit code that may help you in Puts Down chest when inventory is full.

if turtle.getItemCount(16)>0 then -- if there is item on 16 slot then it will run this
   turtle.select(2) -- slot be your slot with chest
   turtle.digDown() -- dig hole where you can put your chest
   turtle.placeDown() -- place the chest
   for slot = 5, 16 do -- You need select slot
	  turtle.select(slot) -- select slot
	  turtle.dropDown() -- drop of item into chest
	  sleep(0.8) -- small fix for slow pc
   end -- end for loop
end -- end if statement

and torch: just make code that count from start from mine let say 10 block then turtle turn around and select torch slot then place torch and turn around aging done

Thanks for the code, but i changed it my self doing this:

function placeChest() -- Functions to place chest
turnAround()
for i = 1, currentLength do -- Loops to the start of the mine
  tryFor()
end
turtle.select(3)
turtle.place()
for slotToDrop = 4, 16 do
  turtle.select(slotToDrop)
  turtle.drop()
end
turtle.select(1)
turnAround()
for i = 1, currentLength do
  tryFor()
end
end

So basically this returns to the start of the mine and places a chest, this means i only need 1 chest but this can make it longer to for the turtle to mine as it has to return every time the inventory is full. Or maybe i could make it an option for the user… uhhmmmmm… :s

Hmm. It just mines one block below and then turns a few times and stops. I've entered a length of 10 and no stripmining.

Avarion, on 29 December 2014 - 12:59 PM said:

Hmm. It just mines one block below and then turns a few times and stops. I've entered a length of 10 and no stripmining.

Sounds to me like you have no fuel in the turtle.

KingofGamesYami, on 29 December 2014 - 01:48 PM said:

Sounds to me like you have no fuel in the turtle.

For testing purpose fuel consumption is disabled in the computercraft.cfg

Avarion, on 29 December 2014 - 05:01 PM said:

KingofGamesYami, on 29 December 2014 - 01:48 PM said:

Sounds to me like you have no fuel in the turtle.

For testing purpose fuel consumption is disabled in the computercraft.cfg

weird since i when i look at pastebin code there is not fuel checking code so if fuel disable in computercraft config it should just work

Strange. Thanks. I'll add fuel and test again.

Ok. Thanks. I've edited the config file in the wrong minecraft installation. Forgot I've copied it to the SSD. Sorry.

I've notice a couple of things:

- It creates the main shaft first and then starts to stripmine. I would begin the stripmining immediately to reduce the chance to run into a mob or the player while driving back and forth. This also makes a clear starting point when the program has to terminate unexpectedly.

- Then there is no inventory handling. As long you don't have a return-to-chest-and-unload or drop-chest-and-fill part in your program the bot should pause until its inventory is cleared and wait for a keystroke to continue.

- The strips are too narrow. Have two blocks between each shaft instead of one. This way you can see all the ores.