Hey yo! So I made this
tunnel boring contrivance (video) of frames, motors*, pneutubes, nodebreakers, even a travelnet cabin. It jerks sideways, at times wins to inch forward and often gets stuck. Before I beat myself into forth to build more useful equipment**, I would like to ask dearly for enlightenment:
1) I've seen in videos from minecrafters on youtube that crawling is achieved with two frame motors attached to no touching frames, one pushing and one pulling each other's frame, while I can put motors to move their own frame. Am I misusing a bug/deferred feature?
2) also in those videos they seem to take pains to put battery boxes next to f-motors; to move my machine they need only activation mesecon signals*** and no [L|M|H]V power. Should it be so? No EUs needed?
3) the nodebreakers at drilling face need support to a frame, tube for conveying mined blocks out, mc-signal to activate and the working face must be free: four sides out of six. By keeping blocks circulating into detector tubes I bring it down to three bound faces but this necessitates the machine to rock left and right and, lacking crawler-head synchronization, it sometimes gets stuck. Do I understand correctly that pneumatic tubes (or was it signal conductors?) can be embedded into frames? can frames be made conductive? how to do it?
4) Any hint on world-anchors? Capital notion, I daresay. I do not fully get what these could be, but they seem needed to be onboard for a machine to be really autonomous. Some would think of far reaching probes returning with 3D-maps loaded on their forth computers.
I've never played Minecraft and found no page or tutorial addressing these questions and also wanted to show my device.
Thank you so much for a wonderful mod to a marvelous game and for your patience.
knut
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* I've modified frames.lua to use an image with an F instead of lv_cable skin seeking to figure framemotors out. No luck though, it's trial & error screwdriving each motor number till I get the motion I want.
** I'm thinking of sorta diagonally steering one block up, dow, right or left for each machine-length crawled forward.
*** this I manage with a block looping in closed-circuit detector tubes. First version used blinkyplants but it was slower and awfuler.