[Help] Gps range.

Hey guys, I've been using a goto program I found for my turtle, but I've noticed it can't locate itself when it is only about 300 blocks away, even though I set the rednet range to like 8000. Just wondering if I can fix this in any way.

Chunk loading. Remember that after 300 blocks, the world starts unloading. So, either get some dimensional anchors (from railcraft or. . . I forget the other guy who makes them), or just deal with limitation.

Also, I think the config can only be turned up to 300 anyway.

Funny thing is, I can still send rednet messages from over 300 blocks away.

Config goes up as high as 100000 before it starts ignoring higher values. Try running the gps program and see what the output is.

Sodapop98, on 07 December 2012 - 12:16 PM said:

…, but I've noticed it can't locate itself when it is only about 300 blocks away, …

How close are your GPS hosts placed to each other?

I used THIS:
http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/3088-how-to-guide-gps-global-position-system/
tutorial for positioning the computers. Like I said, I play on a server and we have no trouble sending messages insanely far.

Yes, but you have someone at each computer sending the messages. Players load the chunks in their immediate vicinity, so there's no problem.

If you are using a turtle and a GPS array, and they are more than 300 meters apart, then you need another player (or world anchor) to keep the chunks the turtle is working in loaded at the same time as the chunks with the GPS array.

Drop the turtle out of whatever program it's trying to run and run gps locate. If that's working, then there must be a limitation in the program your using that prevents distances greater than 300+ meters from the gps hosts. But it's probably not working without having someone or something keep the GPS array loaded.