10 Wireless Turtles with "Tunnel 50" Command?

Greetings,

sorry for my bad english, german user here.

i am totaly new to computer craft and fascinated by the opportunitys you have.

as a "normal" user on a server i am using my turtles to harvest materials etc.

atm i am using 20 mining turtles to make "tunnel 50"

10 in a row and 10 below them, which i am starting after the first row. from 40 to layer 6.

my idea is now: i am placing 10 wireless turtles and i wanted to send them all the command "tunnel 50"
so the first row starts at the exact same time.

i have installed the wireless modem on a terminal and on a mining turtle

i opened lua and activated the modem on the right side, at the computer and at the turtle.

my question is now:

is there an easy way to send to one or multiple turtles the "tunnel 50" command?

rednet.open('right')
while true do
  local id,msg,dist==rednet.receive()
  if msg=='starttunnel' then
    shell.run('tunnel',50)
  end
end

then just broadcast the message 'starttunnel' and they will all start tunneling

thank you very much, when i destroy the turtle, cause i want to move it to a other position, the startup file will be deleted, right? can i avoid that somehow?

label the turtle with the program (THIS IS NOT LUA CODE)

label set label

please note that the turtle will then no longer stack with other turtles

Hi KaoS,

thank you so much!

I made three test turtles and wrote the code into the startup code on a disk.

when i place a turtle right next to the disk drive i get a error message:

bios:206: [string "startup"]:3:
unexpected symbol i attach a pic of the code



what did i do wrong?

local id,msg,dist==rednet.receive()

should be

local id,msg,dist = rednet.receive()

derp. my bad lol

thank you both!

It Works! haha, that looks so cool, 10 mining turtles perfect synchron!

KaoS, on 30 October 2012 - 04:15 PM said:

derp. my bad lol

Don't worry about it that happens to me all the time. that is why I check my code before posting ALWAYS but that is just me.

BigSHinyToys, on 30 October 2012 - 05:28 PM said:

KaoS, on 30 October 2012 - 04:15 PM said:

derp. my bad lol

Don't worry about it that happens to me all the time. that is why I check my code before posting ALWAYS but that is just me.

I'm at work lol. no MC