SquidDev
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5 years ago I know I've been asking a lot of you, and I know you do this for free. And maybe a lot of what I'm asking has a lot of specific-to-me purposes. Please tell me if I'm asking too much.
Absolutely not! Most of the cool features in this mod have come from other people's suggestions, so I absolutely welcome any feedback! I'm insanely grateful for it, as well as the additional effort you put into them - it's really useful to have that extra description + rationale.
But yeah. It would be really amazing if we could get arbitrary tools on turtles.
It's not documented right now (sorry!), but the kinetic augment can be used in turtles. This makes turtle.dig and turtle.swing use the currently selected item, just like turtle.place does.
This really doesn't do much beyond "swinging" the item at the block/entity, which means it a) consumes durability and b) isn't guaranteed to break the block on the first try. You'll have to do something like while turtle.detect() do turtle.dig() end. I think this is a fair compromise for being able to use any tool, though any ways of making this better are welcome!
You can also wrap the augment as a peripheral which provides use and swing and use methods. These allow you to right and left click respectively with the item. This should be enough to sheer sheep (and leaves).
I haven't tested right clicking to transfer fluids, but it should work. Minecraft's buckets are a little funky, but our logic is almost identical to a player's, so you should be OK.
I personally don't think the pickaxe should be able to break wood.
Yeah. It's always been a little strange how mining turtles do everything. I think it's probably better for the sake of "convenience" (you don't want your program to fail if it finds an abandoned mineshaft with lots of wood), but it's definitely not logical.
shelbykauth
So... I remember some CC addon at some point in time allowed you to put arbitrary tools on a turtle. There's actually a big discussion of it at this link: http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/20101-tool-durability-and-turtles/
That was from four years ago. The CC1.6 update allowed swapping of tools, which was the first step forward with it. I'm kinda surprised it hasn't been followed up yet. I'm asking this here instead of CC:Tweaked because even though I personally think it should be included in the ComputerCraft core, the addon I'm remembering was named something to do with peripherals, and it is specifically related to what peripherals a turtle can use, much like the ability to access inventories in a fast and meaningful way (a feature which I definitely think should be in the core).
I know I've been asking a lot of you, and I know you do this for free. And maybe a lot of what I'm asking has a lot of specific-to-me purposes. Please tell me if I'm asking too much. My specific idea currently is I want to do the Computer Craft Challenge, where you start with a turtle, a little bit of fuel, and a tool, and then everything else must be done through CC interfaces. Like you're not allowed to place or break anything yourself. I think it would be really cool to start the challenge with a wooden axe, with durability, instead of a diamond pickaxe. Because you can't get diamonds without a diamond pickaxe. I also want to use Tinkers Construct, like a lot, and want to actually have a purpose for TConstruct tools in the CC Challenge. (My bare-bones modpack contains CCTweaked, Plethora, and Tinkers Construct.)
I know a lot of tool mechanics have to be overhauled for this to work. Number one, the dig/attack method is a bit weird. Both use the left click action and neither uses the right click action. To shear a sheep, you attack. I can't get the turtle to collect leaves with a shear. I personally don't think the pickaxe should be able to break wood. I like the idea of the turtle's tools losing durability, on config basis like using fuel. I, again, don't know how this works under the hood. In theory, you should be able to use whatever left click and right click call to in order to do the thing. And if there's a right-click tool on both sides, use whatever logic the game uses when a player has those items in off-hand and selected slots. But I don't know if the mods are that cohesive or not. Like... Ideally it would be so cohesive that you could equip a bucket or a bottle or a Forstry pipette or Binnie's Mod drink glass and fill and empty them from tanks or sources. But I know it's not an ideal world.
But yeah. It would be really amazing if we could get arbitrary tools on turtles.