Can We Weponize Turtles? =P

like give them a diamond sword instead of a pick and be able to call turtle.attack() that would function like turtle.dig(), swinging the sword to anything in front of it, once for everytime the function is called, maybe a turtle fight club in the future? xD people would be able to program battle turtles to fight each other and bet gold ingots as prize or something, well thats my dream, i hope it can be made someday

I've seen turtles eat/dig other turtles, does that count? Haha.

That would be one interesting game, with remote controlled turtles and all.

There is a crude turtle weapon out there. ;)/>/>

Look in the Programs Library list and find Remote Controlled Turtle, install both programs and start them up with the proper device then load up a Wireless Mining Turtle with a bunch of TNT blocks.

Once you have a computer set as the controller and a turtle responding, hit the redstone command (this function turns on and stays on) and when ever you want to attack something, just hit the place block command.

Since the front of the turtle is constantly emitting a redstone signal after you triggered that command and it always places blocks in front of itself, the turtle will be arming the TNT block every time it drops it. ;)/>/>

Now if you have it flying while doing this, it will be fine, but if it happens to be on the ground; Lets hope you can get the turtle out of the blast zone in time. :P/>/>

be cool if the turtles had a laser attachment to warn off mobs or players that get in there path.

considering that you can make a turtle quite cheaply ( a wireless NON mining one ) bu it can still place blocks they can make good
GPS bomb simple go here place TNT explode.

"why is that turtle flying to my base ?????"
"BOOM"
"ow shit Bleep Bleep bleep I'm going to bleep his bleeping bleep"

LOL XD

there are already functions for going to coordinates. now to weaponize… :(/>/>

Just load it with tnt and write a program. The trailer for 1.3 showed a turtle doing a bombing run

no but if they had swords and bows it would be like a high school fight for robots and that would be funny as hell to watch

Try to learn turtles to dig each other…

i might try to program this (no promises)
it might be usefull

Place the turtle in front of another with my remote turtle program and then dig the other turtle :3 that's how you get free turtles :(/>/>

Vandie, on 23 March 2012 - 10:36 AM said:

no but if they had swords and bows it would be like a high school fight for robots and that would be funny as hell to watch

haha yeah laser's and mini buzz saws would be so cool swords would be alright……

Spoiler

get 6 turtle stacked on top of each other and let them go (for excavating 10, only 1 turtle comes out)
like this:

I have been thinking about this for some time now. However I was thinking more along the lines of RoboCode for Minecraft. Turtles with cannons :)/>/> :)/>/> Instead of make remote controllable turtles, how about we write AI's for them to battle each other.

If you don't know what RoboCode is check it out, it is done in Java. It is quite a blast, we had a weekly competition with everyone in my department at work, its a good way to start to learn Java. I would be interested on working on a project to bring that into Minecraft, so far Turtles look like they could work.

It would be best to start out with an arena that is on one plane, and eventually get into mutliple planes and adding water and lava to the arenas.

Well nice but turtles don't have health so they can't hurt each other at least with swords.

A idea for this is a arena with control stations.
Turtles can't go beyond this height..
To "kill" a turtle it sends a kill signal to the master computer for these cords.
If there is a turtle there. Then it is "dead" and no longer responds to player signals.
It could rise beyond the height allowed then make its way back to the docking system.

If people really want this. I could provide coding for that. But it would ruin half the fun if I gave finished programs.
So a wrapper would be best.
A basic thing where the turtle already has the rules of the arena.
You just need to make your control stations and any special programs the turtle is to run.

So you just got handed a fresh turtle+computer station.
The computer station has the turtles ID down and a small API.
tur.send("Bla")
You can control your turtle the way you like. Pressure plates? Levers? Inside the computer? Maybe you want to make the computer display a graphic display of the turtle's whereabouts!

The computer station receives updates automatically on the turtle whereabouts in x, z, y format as well as other peoples turtles.

The turtle itself can be programed.
Score keeping is auto.

But yes.
Unless someone wanted this, it would be another one of my programs no one comments on :)/>/>

I'd comment

Plus 1 for you

In that case!
I'll add that to my list of current projects.
Currently thats just the game "Battlez"