Forestry Peat and a 36HP boiler, a question??

[MigukNamja]

To prevent spillage, you can use water source blocks (i.e. right-click with a water bucket) on every water slot in every layer. You can then place a block directly beneath the water to keep it from pouring out. The turtle will pass under that block.

As for server reboot-type stuff, you can place the invocation of this in a file called "startup".

1. In the turtle CLI, type 'edit startup' and press enter

2. In the edit program enter the following:

shell.run("peat 20 20")

3. Save and exit

4. Type "reboot" to test

Note, however, my script does not persist the current location. So, if the server dies in the middle of execution, i.e. the turtle is out on the peat farm doing its thing - then the turtle will error out. You may find your turtle in the middle of the peat field following a server reboot if it was in the field during the reboot.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Note, however, my script does not persist the current location. So, if the server dies in the middle of execution, i.e. the turtle is out on the peat farm doing its thing - then the turtle will error out. You may find your turtle in the middle of the peat field following a server reboot if it was in the field during the reboot.

Ya I've set up startup just like that, getting stuck in the middle was what I was afraid of, in SSP so will have to add that as a shutdown procedure and just wait until they're all finished...

 

[MigukNamja]

Yeah, the first thing the turtle does is try to drop-off stuff and pickup Bog Earth. It can't do that in the middle of the field, so it will print an error and just sit there.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Isn't a disaster just gotta check when I start up that nothings stuck. Working out that error prevention is waaaaaay out of my league, I've never actually used turtles only the computers for my frame quarries.

But to anyone else out there reading this, it's a great program and each 20x20 produces around double of a full sized forestry farm(is fairly random). I haven't hooked it up yet as I'm waiting for a stockpile for heat up but I'm hoping my 4 layers will supply 2 36HP boilers... Which isn't bad for a 20x20x12 area, 4 Turtles and 8 Chests.

 

[draeath]

The answer is GPS hosts

 

[MigukNamja]

Yeah, but I didn't want to require GPS hosts. I *could* update the script, I suppose, to have separate GPS-less and GPS-aware versions.

 

[draeath]

Oh, another option - write the relative turtle position and state into a file on the turtle as you execute.

Not 100% on if that would be reliably written when a server shuts down (of course a crash or process interruption wouldn't guarantee anything, but I mean an admin-initiated shutdown)