Allow turtles to activate wired modems

[Iluab21]

Hi everyone.

First off, huge thanks to everyone keeping CC: Tweaked alive. The mod is absolutely awesome and I'm having a blast with it!

I know this was discussed way back in 2013 on the old forums, but I'd like to bring it up again for modern CC: Tweaked: letting turtles activate wired modems.

Currently, a turtle can do 99% of the work: dig a tunnel, place a chest, put a modem on it, and run the cable. But the entire automation loop breaks at the last step because the turtle can't turn the modem on. You still have to physically walk down the tunnel and manually right-click and activate it yourself. It’s the one missing piece for building truly self-expanding systems.

Would love to hear if there's any chance of this happening nowadays. Thanks!

[SquidDev]

So there is an open issue for this (#264), but I'm not 100% if/how I want to handle it.

It is possible to allow turtle.place() to activate modems with datapacks. See "Turtles ♥ Modems" on datapacks.madefor.cc.

[Iluab21]

Thanks for the quick reply and for pointing out the datapack! It works perfectly as a workaround for my base.

I was looking into how it works under the hood, and I've just left a comment in issue #264 proposing a native PR to smooth out the empty-hand interaction. Let's move the technical discussion over there. Thanks again!