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[Left4Cake]

Placing and removing torches/lamps/jackolanters would probeley work better consideing Minecraft's limitations, other wise it sounds like a nice idea on paper.

[Sebra]

I do not see while using light emitting block like torch or lamp would be better than fake air light source tied to turtle.

[Left4Cake]

Sebra, on 20 November 2013 - 09:58 AM, said:

I do not see while using light emitting block like torch or lamp would be better than fake air light source tied to turtle.

...and vis versa. Except the amount of work to code it.

[ChunLing]

Place/remove is preferable in terms of performance issues because it slows the turtle down enough to make it a rarer occurance (with torches, placing them at intervals is fairly normal). You wouldn't bother doing it except when necessary, thus a lot of unnecessary lighting updates are avoided.

On the other hand, a very low level light (as if from a small LED screen, say 2 or 3) shouldn't impose too much of a burden on the lighting system, and would still be genuinely helpful for spotting the locations of turtles in complete darkness (even 1 should work for that).

[Timendainum]

I just tried finding the video, but I can't. But, one of the new guys Mojang hired recently already has a prototype rework of minecraft lighting.

The video showed both colored lights (combinable additive color style) and dynamic lights which was visualized as a miner hat light.

When (and if) this ever makes it in minecraft it might make doing something like this possible without killing your server.

[rschulz]

Colored lights on a turtle would be awesome. It would allow one to implement the fun little teaching game light-bot (http://light-bot.com/) as a minecraft turtle.