turtle.dropSelf()

Elevator Time:
The requested function turtle.dropSelf() would, obviously, allow the turtle to "break" itself, and drop itself as an item, letting whoever's nearby get it, or letting it despawn on its own instead of sitting wherever it ends up.



Before anyone asks, I in fact do have an idea for how to use this, though I know it will become obsolete fairly quickly: Portability. In lieu of a PDA or something of that nature, it would make the turtle a nice portable computer that, if programed properly, would pop back into the user's inventory more or less as soon as it's finished its present purpose. Wow that came out convoluted.

Anyway, I also see this as a way to "hide" a turtle from certain things, such as a PVPer, or something like that. It might even make swarm-based quarries easier to build.

So, thoughts, comments anyone?

Nah. I don't see the use case really.

If you want it to be picked up by player, player can break it.
If you want it to be picked up by turtle, turtle can break it.
If you want it to be picked up by other mod things, other mod most times include better solution.
If you want it to die by despawn, use tnt.

I think it would be fairly cool… that way turtles could drop through mystcraft portals without needing a spare breaking and dropping rig

Sure, but you still need a turtle or similar to put it back.
*marks with stamp of uselessness*
:P/>

tiin57, on 05 January 2013 - 04:01 AM said:

Sure, but you still need a turtle or similar to put it back.
*marks with stamp of uselessness*
:P/>

that's still half the setup required though right?

The only chance it can be slightly usable is if it would rebirth from ash restore from item to block form after defined period. But anyway…

It yould be turtle.dropSelfUp()
and turtle.dropSelfDown()
and turtle.dropSelfback()

wouldn't it?

:)/>

Nothing more to be said on this topic - so closed.