[HELP] Mining turtle

[EDOKILLER]

I use the comand "excavate 8" on a mining turtle, but after a period of work it stop to dig; the turtle's inventory isn't full and the fuel livel is 100K, but the turtle not dig to the bedrock? Someone can help me?

 

[thesonofdarwin]

Did the chunk unload, or did the turtle stop when you were actively watching it?

 

[odinsembrace]

I have this issue upon reloading the world

 

[Vircomore]

Yes, this is standard behavior of turtles. Unless you give them a chunk loader - they will stop working when you leave them.

And if you're playing singleplayer - they will always stop when you exit your game.

 

[Guswut]

As stated, the best thing to do is to place a chunkloader above the level the turtle is mining that will cover all of the chunks the turtle will go into when mining, or to put a chunkloader on the turtle (although I have never done that, so I am not sure it is actually supported).

 

[bodaciousbilly]

I'm actually still having this problem, even though I use a a chunk loader that very easily covers the area of my 4 turtles. Each turtle also has multiple hundreds of thousands of fuel, and a chest to dump in to.

If I leave the area, even just for a moment, I come back to them frozen in place. This same setup used to work, but it suddenly stopped.

Anyone have any idea why? I use the chickenchunks cunkloader (yellow with the floating crystal), and it works fine for the other things I use it for (my base, nether lava pumps).

 

[Blinkerty]

put a chunkloader on the turtle? that way the turtle is always loaded.

 

[Adonis0]

There are chunk loading modules in the mindcrack pack

And these I know work.. and work too well.

Don't use them on experimental code, your turtles may run off with them >.>

 

[bodaciousbilly]

Good to know. I only ever really use excavate or tunnel. I don't know how to code

 

[Adonis0]

Heh.. me either..

I tried it, and all my turtles ran off, they've probably run out of fuel by now, still have no idea where they would be though.