how to tell a turtle not to pick up items

[atheneftw]

^title, how to? i have 4 melee turtles killing mobs, but i want only 2 of them to pick up items, i tried filling the other ones with cobble but they just spit the items out.

 

[Summit]

Can't be done. Melee turtles always grab the loot from their kills if it lands close enough. You could use water to push the loot to the two turtles you want to pick the stuff up, then your cobble situation might work.

 

[Talonar]

Can't be done. Melee turtles always grab the loot from their kills if it lands close enough. You could use water to push the loot to the two turtles you want to pick the stuff up, then your cobble situation might work.

Cant you program it to toss the item infront of it, or drop it into a pipe or something that is below it?

 

[Skirty_007]

Low tech solution: fill the inventory of the turtle with cobble, then it won't have room to pick up anything

 

[hotblack desiato]

or let them stand on a bunch of obsidian pipes or these rp2- collectors (no idea what their name is). this way, the loot is immediately far enough away, so the turles can't get them anymore...

 

[snooder]

Just use turtle.drop() afterward to send the items elsewhere.

 

[Fuzzlewhumper]

I like slapping my turtles around a lot and telling them they're worthless and stuff. They respect strict masters.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

i tried filling the other ones with cobble but they just spit the items out.

Is this not what you want? If you're trying to get the items from the two non-picking-up turtles into the inventory of the other two, you can have them use turtle.suck() to pick things up off the ground.