Mindcrack: White Bears tree plantation

[Emeraldknight]

In tekkit I had a fairly good auto setup. It was very simular to the cactus farm but with deployers to replant the spalings and to apply the bonemeal. Then block breakers up the back of the truck to 10 high to remove the wood and place it into a chest. Water under the trees to collect any saplings. All done with redpower tubes and machines.

[white_bear_84]

Looking into using redstone cable to activate the turtle.. ..think this looks useful..

Redstone helper API - rshelp - ComputerCraft | Programmable Computers for Minecraft

Is it it difficult to get a redstone signal to activate a turtle??

[DaedalusAlpha]

Well given that turtles tend to move around I'd say the hard part would be to get it back to the same location when you want to deactivate it

But if you don't plan on letting yours move around they yeah, it probably works with redstone.

However you don't need to use that link. What you write is something like:

while true do
  os.pullEvent("redstone")  -- wait for any face to get a change in redstone state
  if rs.getInput("left") then  -- assuming redstone input is on the left
    -- do stuff
  end
end

os.pullEvent is blocking so execution will only continue if there is a change in redstone. This is good form a performance perspective.

[white_bear_84]

Originally Posted by DaedalusAlpha

Well given that turtles tend to move around I'd say the hard part would be to get it back to the same location when you want to deactivate it

But if you don't plan on letting yours move around they yeah, it probably works with redstone.

However you don't need to use that link. What you write is something like:

while true do
  os.pullEvent("redstone")  -- wait for any face to get a change in redstone state
  if rs.getInput("left") then  -- assuming redstone input is on the left
    -- do stuff
  end
end

os.pullEvent is blocking so execution will only continue if there is a change in redstone. This is good form a performance perspective.

Ah ok, thats fairly straightforward. As for the turtle moving, i will use charcoal to fuel it.. ..what i do need to investigate is what ratio it will use charcoal to the amount of wood chopped, then you have your economics.. ..alternatively i could use a block tower with redstone wiring to provide the power without fuel consumption or alternatively include in the commands for the turtle to construct this as it goes, then deconstruct it...