Okay, so what i need is to know if it is possible to power a mining turtle with a rechargeable battery, and if so, what is the coding i need in order to have the turtle accept it as a power source?
I need help with Mining Turtle fueling
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It's not possible. However, misc peripherals has a turtle charging station that uses EU to charge turtle placed on a dot side.
Go to the computer craft forums.
Search for something like "easy fueling for turtles" (or whatever, it's over 3 months that I used turtles).
Download the program.
Run it.
Done.
Why has no one yet suggested putting a load of fuel (charcoal will do) into the turtle's inventory and type refuel all?
Also, you can have mobile mining turtles carry an ender chest full of fuel around with them and you can make it so that when their fuel levels go below a certain point you can make the turtle place the chest, pull fuel out, turtle.refuel() and then break the chest and pt it back into your inventory.
By the way, a turtle can travel 80 blocks on one single piece of coal or charcoal, or 15 blocks on a log or wood.
Also, you can have mobile mining turtles carry an ender chest full of fuel around with them and you can make it so that when their fuel levels go below a certain point you can make the turtle place the chest, pull fuel out, turtle.refuel() and then break the chest and pt it back into your inventory.
By the way, a turtle can travel 80 blocks on one single piece of coal or charcoal, or 15 blocks on a log or wood.
Don't take my stuff out of context.
And no, don't say that killer's quote here have reason for refueling turtles with coal and or wood, this was talking about the nether.
Well, given that charcoal is a very easy thing to distribute to the nether as well as the overworld or any dimension really, I would argue that it is a better way of refuelling a turtle than lava too. Even though lava does provide a lot of movement points it really limits your program to being used in the nether. (Flowing lava blocks may also create a lag issue).
I really fail to see why my post is less relevant than the (helpful) comments about lava. And hey, I even included the bit of code you need to make a turtle refuel so if it will make you feel better you can pretend I suggested that you make the charcoal in an electric furnace.
Also apemanzilla, you are right about the miscperipherals charging stations, and you reminded me of something. This video is quite old but I am pretty sure this feature is still there, you can recharge a turtle with a battery from IC2 using the turtle.refuel() command.
It is one of the first things shown in the vid
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To the OP (in particular): I don't know if you know the turtle.refuel() command so please don't take it as though I were trying to patronise you. If you are running a 1.5 pack (which I hope you are if you are going the lava route and need nether ores) then you might have logistics pipes. It may be possible to have a logistics pipe keep an ender chest stocked with coal while also extracting anything that is not coal (you could even do that with another turtle). That would be pretty cool. The only thing to be aware of is that the turtle.suck() command will suck from the first inventory slot with items in it. This can be accounted for by keeping refueling apart from extraction.
I really fail to see why my post is less relevant than the (helpful) comments about lava. And hey, I even included the bit of code you need to make a turtle refuel so if it will make you feel better you can pretend I suggested that you make the charcoal in an electric furnace.
Also apemanzilla, you are right about the miscperipherals charging stations, and you reminded me of something. This video is quite old but I am pretty sure this feature is still there, you can recharge a turtle with a battery from IC2 using the turtle.refuel() command.
It is one of the first things shown in the vid
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To the OP (in particular): I don't know if you know the turtle.refuel() command so please don't take it as though I were trying to patronise you. If you are running a 1.5 pack (which I hope you are if you are going the lava route and need nether ores) then you might have logistics pipes. It may be possible to have a logistics pipe keep an ender chest stocked with coal while also extracting anything that is not coal (you could even do that with another turtle). That would be pretty cool. The only thing to be aware of is that the turtle.suck() command will suck from the first inventory slot with items in it. This can be accounted for by keeping refueling apart from extraction.