Mining Turtle

The Mining Turtle is a block added by ComputerCraft, extending the functionality of the Turtle. It allows the turtle to not only place and interact with blocks, but also break them.

Usage
The mining turtle is most commonly used as an early-game form of automatic mining. It is relatively cheap to maintain, however you must first find a diamond pickaxe. Once the user has obtained a diamond pickaxe, the mining turtle must be supplied with some form of fuel such as coal, to keep running. It is able to also find coal for itself while mining, lowering the maintenance required.

The mining turtle has an internal inventory. When this is full it will return to the surface, that is the point at which it was initially placed. If a chest is placed on the block adjacent to the excavated area the mining turtle will deposit contents there while capacity is available. Otherwise it will drop the items on the ground. It will then return to the quarrying status if there is remaining fuel. The mining turtle can be safely picked up by breaking with a pickaxe, however all inventory will be dropped.

Simple instruction:

To set the mining turtle to quarry everything in a square area right-click, type 'excavate' followed by a radius number (such as given example below). The area excavated is quite large so it may be advisable to use a low number when first using the mining turtle to see how the instruction is executed. When the mining turtle is then fed coal it will start to mine. excavate 5 ""Advanced instruction: The mining turtle can also receive more advanced specific instruction. The following is a sample mining program: This program can be downloaded in-game by running the command: