8RUNNING AN AUTOMATED TREE FARM
In Chapter 6, we programmed a turtle to chop down a tree, but the player still has to manually place the turtle in front of a tree before the program can run. Placing a turtle in front of each tree you want to chop down isn’t much more efficient than harvesting a tree yourself. We can remove this manual step and fully automate the lumber-milling process by also programming the turtle to plant and grow saplings. As a result, the turtle can plant a sapling, harvest it when it becomes a tree, then plant a new sapling, and repeat the process without any human intervention! To do this, we’ll write a program called
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