Tools

To assist in developing compatible railways, ELR provides several tools that are useful in designing and building railways. This page describes these tools and their usage.

Programs

Programs to be used with computers and turtles.

Slope

This is a mining turtle program to dig a sloped tunnel at a grade of 12.5%, the maximum allowed as per the ELR Manual.

Usage:

Place a mining turtle at the top left corner of your tunnels start. Fill the first slot of the mining turtle with coal or another fuel source.

On your mining turtle run:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EndDragon438/End-Rail/refs/heads/main/tools/slope.lua

Then, run:

./slope.lua <up|down>

Be sure to pass up or down as a parameter to tell the program which way to dig.

The turtle will run until it runs out of fuel or you stop it manually. The user should monitor the turtle to ensure it runs correctly and is not interrupted.

Libraries

Libraries for usage by other programs. Usually licensed under a CC-BY-4.0, so have fun with them!

Color

Utilities for converting between color spaces. Currently supports sRGB, HSV, XYZ, and LAB.

Usage is extensively documented within the file.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EndDragon438/End-Rail/refs/heads/main/tools/color.lua

Matrix

Utilities for working with matrices. Includes addition, multiplication, and transpose operations.

Usage is extensively documented within the file.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EndDragon438/End-Rail/refs/heads/main/tools/matrix.lua