Minecraft | Mining Turtle Tutorial | Feed the Beast

In this tutorial, I cover the basics of the mining turtle for the beginner. We walk through how to program the mining turtle to dig a 3 X 1 branch mine and a 3 x 3 tunnel.

The Basics: 0:15
The Branch Program: 2:52
The 3 x 3 Tunnel: 11:54
It's a Dancing Machine! 16:27

I am using the Feed the Beast mod manager and the Mindcrack mod pack.

Intro and Outro Song: Frost Waltz
Dance Music: One-eyed Maestro
Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.

-Branch
function digIt()
end
end
end

function placeTorch()
end

local run = 0
local j = 0
local k = 0

run = read()

for i = 1, run do
k = i - 1
j = k % 10
if j == 1 then
placeTorch()
end
digIt()
end

for i = 1, run do
end

-3Tunnel
function digIt()
end
end
end

local run = 0
run = read()

for i = 1, run do
digIt()
digIt()
digIt()
end

-3Tunnel with Torches
function digIt()
end
end
end

function placeTorch()
end

local run = 0
run = read()

for i = 1, run do
k = i - 1
j = k % 4
digIt()
digIt()
digIt()
if i == 2 or j == 1 then
placeTorch()
placeTorch()
end
end

[victxrr]

11:30 I found it hilarious that the turtle just hovered back and looked at Seth like, "Did I do a good job?" 😂

[JekktSpecial]

10:34 "Oh it's dark again..." - Every Programmer everywhere.

[bumpybumpybumpybumpy]

Finally a good tutorial in english :) thank you.

[Nonsanity]

You can save fuel by starting on the left, mining forward, turing right, mining across the hallway, turning left, mining forward, turning left, mine across in the other direction, etc. This pattern eliminates the need to backtrack, which, of course, takes more fuel. Once written this way, it is also a simple matter of changing a single variable from 3 to whatever width you'd like.

[moridrowsy]

So I've copied your code here line for line and even used pastebin to ensure that I've not missed anything or botched the syntax and all it wants to do is dig a single block ahead of it, and then turn around, what have I done wrong?

[ElixirEdits]

When I type branch nothing happens after the code is finished. It says "bios:14: [string "Branch"] : 34: '=' expected". HELP?

[app]

Help! I’m trying to do this in the mining dimension but every time I go out of the mining dimension the turtle stops and then I have to start it again. Is there a way that I can get him to keep mining while I’m not in the Mining dimension?

[jjaycepgamingidk]

help so i set the name 3x and when I tried to run it says bios:14: {string} "3x"}:7: unexpected symbol

[blackrabbit]

that's the music of Kerbal Space Program! :D

I could never program mining turtles till now... Thx dude subbed!

[masterkiller]

I like to learn A to B, B to C, C to D ...
Thx guys, very nice Tutorial you did there for beginner like me! :-)

[whiteveils]

All I needed to know was the mining part. Lol. Thank god it's easy. Thanks, helped a lot.

[OrangeC]

TurtleOS 1.4
> dance
Preparing to get down . .
*awesome dance*

[starlaraxan]

bios:337: [string "branch"]:46: 'end'
expected (to close 'for' at line 29)

followed everything in your tutorial perfectly

[SeleckPlays]

I double checked the programs in the description, and they all work as expected. If you can be more detailed about the error, I may be able to help.

[Dark_Vekx]

Nice Kerbal space program music in the background

[SeleckPlays]

I updated the code in the description. Check that with the code you wrote and see if that fixes your problem.

[voodoo_gaming]

Using 3tunnel prompt my mining tunnel doesnt work, it'll mine 1 line and then stop, it's full on fuel and isnt showing any errors, help?

[jamesmckinney]

I thought it'd be more simple. I'm not a programmer. Took me 10 seconds in to go hell nah I aint doin all that.
Is there like pre-made programs I can just grab from somewhere?

[yarondragon]

i typt everyting the same you did and i want to execute the program i typ in:

branch

and then i says:

bios:338 [string "branch"]:29: ', '
expected

cud someone pls help me