Turtles, Digging and Liquidtanks

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Makin911

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I have this designed in my head of a hallway filled with the Xycraft tanks along the walls.

Rough sketch
liquidhallway.png


ive been digging out a couple of these now. and ive been more and more into the automated things in minecraft. i was wondering. Can turtles complete this task for me.

since ive never ever used a turtle nor have much knowledge about them i thought i'd seek it out.

so here comes the questions.

Can i get a 1 turtle to complete this build, maybe even with a little nudge create more tanks down the line if i need it to. if i say "hey turtle, i need 3 more tanks." will i be able to do that?

i know they use Lua progams, are there any specific sites that help you with the programs or have alot of them so you can browse untill you find a similar and just modify it?

or even better if anyone here could help me make a program to do this kind of task.

Say i want the hallway to be 5 blocks wide. the tanks 12x12x12 with windows along the sides of the hallway and valves all along the bottom in the service corridor.
and the service corridor to be 3 blocks wide and 3 blocks tall.
 
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Peppe

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Yes CC/LUA can do all that.
Computercraft has a pretty robust site and community, so you can get help or look for a good baseline script here:
http://www.computercraft.info/

Doubt anyone has written the whole script you want.

There should be many 'room' scripts and tunnel scripts that would probably make a good base to customize from. Or you can just use them as is to clear the sections where you want tanks to go.

Pretty sure i have seen tunnel scripts that ask you for the height, length, and width you want and then go dig it out.

Similar thing for room scripts. They usually have something to place blocks in a given set of dimensions.

It might be worth your time to customize or if it is an interesting project ask on the CC forum for someone to make it for you.

You could eventually make it so you give the turtle a command like addTanks 7, and it digs out the shape you specified and fills in the tanks. If the turtle ever gets out of sync with where it thinks it is vs where the other corridors are you may end up with your tanks/tunnels in the wrong spot.

Weakness of turtles is they forget what they were doing when the chunk unloads, or in SSP when you save and exit/reload. Program gets far more complicated if you want to program around that weakness and be able to resume from any point.

the time to get a perfect program to do what you want is probably longer than just using simpler programs and some of your own time/intelligence to position and control the turtle. Like use the turtle or several turtles to mine the 3x3 service tunnels, the corridor, and the tank rows. Then pick them up and place them where a tank should start and have them make a 12x12 room with whatever material you want in most places, then go back and place the valve and windows yourself.
 
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