

The pregnant turtle then travels back to its home beach, which is where it first spawned. Breedingįeeding two turtles seagrass causes them to enter love mode, causing one of the turtles to have eggs in its inventory and appear a bit bigger (about 0.2 of a block) than normal turtles. If a turtle is spawned from a spawn egg, summoned with the / summon command, or spawned by mob spawners, it remembers the spawn location as its home beach.Ī turtle digs sand around the block on which it lays its eggs. If the player uses a tool enchanted with Silk Touch to obtain and move turtle eggs to a new location before hatching, the baby turtles remember the new hatching location as their home beach. No matter how far away the turtle is, it always attempts to return to its home beach to lay its eggs after breeding. Turtles remember the block on which they hatch as their home beach.

Turtles can be picked up by boats and minecarts. Turtles cannot be attached to leads, but they can be led by a player holding seagrass within 10 blocks of the turtle.

When in an enclosed area, such as a player-made enclosure, they generally swim in circles if the water is in the area, and rarely go on land to explore, if there is any. When on land, they generally attempt to move to the nearest water source with direct sky access. Like other passive mobs, they move around aimlessly and flee when attacked. They move slowly on land, but they can swim at a fast speed in the water. Turtles can both move around on land and swim in water.

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped. When a baby turtle grows up to an adult it drops: 1–3, if killed by a player or tamed wolf.īaby turtles do not drop anything when they die.The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0–5 with Looting III. In Bedrock Edition, turtles spawn in groups of 2–6, at light level 7 or higher, at Y=60–67. In Java Edition, turtles spawn at light levels greater than 8, on sand blocks less than 4 blocks above sea level. Turtles spawn on the sand in the Overworld on beaches with daylight, but not in its snowy variant or stony shores, occasionally in small groups of up to 5 individuals.
