Turtle

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Turtles are essentially robots, and were added in the 1.3 update. They run an OS (like the consoles) named TurtleOS. They have the ability to place, break and detect blocks, move around and drop items in their inventory. The programs they run are stored on its internal memory or floppy disks.

The 1.4 update was focused on turtles and added new tools for them to use. Turtles can now in addition to pickaxes use: Hoes, crafting tables, axes, shovels and sword. The update also included a new fuel system for the turtles. Turtles also got an inventory upgrade from 9 slots to 16.

Turtles are submersible and lavaproof. As such, they are extremely useful for mining near bedrock, where heavy lava flows can prevent access to diamonds and other rare finds.

If you would like to know more about how to program them, have a look at the Turtle API.

Floppy Disks

Turtles do not have a built-in floppy drive. As such they need a floppy drive placed beside them to access disks. However if the turtle is a Wireless turtle, the floppy drive and other peripherals must be placed on a side other than the side the wireless modem is on.

Power source

Turtles run on fuel. Fuel is any item that works in a regular furnace, like coal and lava. The turtle gains 0.6 movement per half second the fuel would have burnt in a furnace. The turtle can move 1 block for each fuel count it has, for example, coal yields 96 block movements. For more information, go to the Turtle.refuel page.

Optional Non-fuel mode

In this mode turtles use their internal redstone engine, they do not need to be re-charged, or any other form of external power. This is because redstone continuously emits low levels of energy, and the turtle's engine is very efficient. This mode can be turned on by editing the turtle config file (config/mod_CCTurtle.cfg) and setting turtleNeedsFuel to 0.

Farming

Turtles equipped with a hoe can till dirt so it can later be used for farming. An example of a use for this would be using it to till, plant, and harvest your wheat farm and dropping product in a chest for you. for example, if a farm three wheat, then, it will drop a chest and I will get three wheat in the chest

Mining

Turtles crafted with a diamond pickaxe, diamond axe, or diamond shovel, can break blocks, mine wood, and even break dirt and gravel, depending on the tool you used on it. The tools equipped on the turtle have no durability, and so can be used indefinitely without the need for any additional materials. When a turtle breaks the block it gets the item directly into its inventory. Different tools yields different drop, for example, an axe can break anything, but it won't get ores.

Crafting

Turtles with a crafting table can craft items if they have the correct materials to do so.

Melee

Turtles equipped with a sword can attack players and mobs. When a turtle kills a mob it will leave the experience orbs on the ground, but add the loot to its inventory. Turtles can also attack with any tool, where the axe is the second best after the sword.

Recipes

Crafting ingredients
Turtle


Turtles can be equipped with different peripherals and tools. A turtle can only have one tool and one peripheral.
The following tools can be equipped to a turtles: diamond pickaxe, diamond axe, diamond shovel, diamond hoe and diamond sword
The following peripherals can be equipped to a turtles: wireless modem and crafting table.

Turtle recipe and examples for equipping a turtle with tools and peripherals.

None Crafty Wireless
None




turtle




turtle




workbench


turtle




Crafty_Turtle





Mining




turtle


diamond_pickaxe


mining_turtle




workbench


turtle


diamond_pickaxe


Crafty_Mining_Turtle





Farming




turtle


diamond_hoe


Farming_Turtle




workbench


turtle


diamond_hoe


Crafty_Farming_Turtle





Melee




turtle


diamond_sword


Melee_Turtle




workbench


turtle


diamond_sword


Crafty_Melee_Turtle





Felling




turtle


diamond_axe


Felling_Turtle




workbench


turtle


diamond_axe


Crafty_Felling_Turtle





Digging




turtle


diamond_shovel


Digging_Turtle




workbench


turtle


diamond_shovel


Crafty_Digging_Turtle





Crafty See Above N/A