Can Mining Turtles Resume When Logging Back In?

[baw179]

Meeeh. I guess I just prefer quarries due to the inherently low maintenance.

I used turtles early on, but I got away from them as early as I possibly could. I got tired of moving my ender chest every time my minecraft crashed.

I agree - I prefer quarries too, especially being able to run them at max speed off our boilers, but they're pretty hard to beat when you're just starting out and don't have the 11 diamonds needed for a quarry or any of the other ancillary equipment to power them. The other advantages of the turtle (austinKK's prog specifically) is that it starts from bedrock and mines upwards, so you get all the good stuff first, plus it doesn't care for lava or water in its way, unlike quarries.

Try one when you start your next brand new world, I think you'll be quite impressed.

 

[Jharakn]

Right, well after coming back after dinner leaving the turtle to work I seem to have run into the same problem again, 'too long without yielding'. I found the turtle underground and it had just stopped, what should I do as I am very confused, please help

I've seen and fixed that exact problem. What I suspect is happening is your program is trying to write its co-ords to a text file and hitting a spot of lag, this is causing the OS to time-out and your crashing. The trick is to use something called a protected call in LUA, basically if you've got a function that saves a state, lets call it save() rather than just typing save() when you want to run it use pcall(save), this will run the write function but if that function crashes it won't terminate the program and it'll just carry on as normal.

Hope this helps.

 

[Danwatson]

In all honesty, this thread was made a few months ago and is no longer relevant to me, I have the answer and have found a good turtle programme that works perfectly.