Help with a newb Computercraft question

[Servillo]

In my new world, I wanted to give Computercraft and Turtles a shot. I sat down and watched DireWolf20's Computercraft tutorial series, which was a great refresher on how to program, and dove right in. First thing I tried to do was write a very, very simple refuel program to cycle through buckets of lava, and it worked great.

However, if I mined my turtle to move it elsewhere, or shut my turtle down, the program vanished. Clearly I am missing something that I either missed during the tutorials, or haven't seen at all with regards to saving programs. Do I need to save them in a particular folder? Can I only save programs to a floppy? I didn't have much time last night to really test anything out, so I figured I'd post here while I was at work and see if I can get any solutions here to work tonight.

Thanks.

 

[Dafuq?]

You have to give your turtle a label like this:

label set <name>

so you could do for example:

label set miningturtle

That way it will save the programs, fuel state etc... For more info search google for computercraft labels.

 

[jnads]

First thing I tried to do was write a very, very simple refuel program to cycle through buckets of lava, and it worked great.

There's a better command 'refuel all', that will already do this.

And yes, name your turtles to save their state (and not spam your server with new computer IDs).

 

[Servillo]

Excellent, thanks. And yeah, I figured there were better programs, but it was something simple I wanted to start with to try and implement.

 

[MilConDoin]

Another thing:
If you want your program to autorun each time the turtle gets loaded (Restarting Minecraft, chunkloading issues), name that program "startup".

 

[jnads]

Another thing:
If you want your program to autorun each time the turtle gets loaded (Restarting Minecraft, chunkloading issues), name that program "startup".

Better is to use shell.run("your_program") in the startup file than renaming.

This way you can include conditions such as detecting if a redstone signal is present on whether or not to auto-execute your program (as in the case of, say, XP Farms).

Otherwise, if you ever do any os.eventpull() functions, you can effectively override the CTRL+T program terminate (perhaps accidentally), and effectively prevent you from ever being able to stop your Turtle from executing [defective] code.