Turtle Egg

Turtle Egg

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Not to be confused with Turtle Spawn Egg.

A turtle egg is a block that hatches one or more baby turtles.

Obtaining

Breaking

Turtle eggs can be obtained in the inventory using tools with the Silk Touch enchantment. If broken without the enchantment, pushed by a piston, a gravity-affected block falls into its space, or a player or item falls onto it from a higher block, the egg breaks without dropping anything.

Breaking a cracked turtle egg with a Silk Touch tool resets the growth stage when the egg is placed on a different block.

Block	Turtle Egg
Hardness	0.5
Breaking time
Default	0.75

Breeding turtles

After two turtles are bred with seagrass, one of them travels back to its home beach, digs in the sand, and lays an egg block with 1–4 eggs after several seconds. See hatching mechanics below.

Trampling

Turtle eggs can be trampled by living entities (players, mobs, livestock, etc.) that fall onto or stand on top of them. Eggs in a multi-egg block are trampled one at a time until no eggs remain.

An entity falling onto an egg has a 1/3 chance of trampling the egg and an entity standing on top of an egg has a 1/100 chance per tick of trampling the egg.

Eggs cannot be trampled by a crouch-walking (or "sneaking") player. Though eggs cannot be trampled by non-living entities like arrows, they can be trampled by armor stands. When a falling block such as an anvil or sand block is dropped onto an egg, the falling block is dropped and turned into an item leaving the egg unharmed.

Zombies and their variants seek out and trample turtle eggs that have 2 blocks of air above them unless mobGriefing is false. The range of detection is a 47×7×47 area (counted from the block the mob is standing on) on Java Edition. The detection range is an 11×5×11 area on Bedrock Edition. When a player in Survival or Adventure Game-mode is nearby, the zombie prefers to attack the player rather than trampling the turtle egg.

Usage

Placement

Up to 4 turtle eggs can be placed in one block and slowly hatch into turtles. Though turtle eggs can be placed on any block, they only hatch on sand blocks.

Turtle eggs do not require a supporting block below and unlike dragon eggs are not affected by gravity. Eggs are also capable of supporting lanterns hanging under them.

Hatching

Turtle eggs hatch on sand and red sand. Eggs crack over time and hatch after cracking three times. Eggs hatch significantly faster at nighttime.

Turtle eggs have a very low chance of cracking during random ticks during the day (1/500 chance), however, they are guaranteed to crack during random ticks between 21600 and 22550 ticks in-game time (3:36 am and 4:33 am). This is a roughly 48-second window for the player. About 95% of eggs will hatch during this night-time window. On average, an egg will hatch in 4-5 nights. 90% of eggs hatch in 7 nights or less.

When a multi-egg block hatches, all eggs hatch simultaneously.

Eggs do not progress toward hatching if the player is not within 128 blocks of the egg. This is due to the egg's chunk not being loaded and not receiving random ticks.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.metal.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	1.2	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.metal.fall	None	0.5	1.25	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.metal.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.75	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.metal.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	1.2	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.metal.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.5	16
	Turtle egg hatches	?	The egg hatches	entity.turtle.egg_hatch	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_hatch	?	?	16
	Turtle egg cracks	?	The eggs changes hatching state	entity.turtle.egg_crack	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_crack	?	?	16
	Turtle egg breaks	?	The egg breaks	entity.turtle.egg_break	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_break	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Turtle Egg	turtle_egg	block.minecraft.turtle_egg

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Turtle Egg	turtle_egg	414	tile.turtle_egg.name

Block state

See also: Data values

Bedrock Edition has the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	One uncracked egg.
	1	Two uncracked eggs.
	2	Three uncracked eggs.
	3	Four uncracked eggs.
	4	One slightly cracked egg.
	5	Two slightly cracked eggs.
	6	Three slightly cracked eggs.
	7	Four slightly cracked eggs.
	8	One cracked egg.
	9	Two cracked eggs.
	10	Three cracked eggs.
	11	Four cracked eggs.
	12	One uncracked egg.
	13	Two uncracked eggs.
	14	Three uncracked eggs.
	15	Four uncracked eggs.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
eggs	1	1 2 3 4	Number of eggs.
hatch	0	0 1 2	Determines how close an egg is to hatching; starts at 0 and is randomly incremented.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
turtle_egg_count	one_egg	four_egg one_egg three_egg two_egg	Number of eggs.
cracked_state	no_cracks	cracked max_cracked no_cracks	Determines how close an egg is to hatching; starts at no cracks and is randomly incremented.

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w07a			Added turtle eggs.
					Turtle eggs currently render three-dimensional in the inventory.
		18w11a			Added drowned, which like zombies and their variants, seek out and trample turtle eggs.
		18w19a			Turtle eggs now display as a 2D sprite in the inventory.
		18w22a			If the player is inside the hitbox of one turtle egg, and another is attempted to be placed, the placement fails.
					Turtle eggs now make placement sounds when the amount in a stack is increased.
					More turtle eggs than normal can now be placed in one stack by aiming at adjacent blocks.
1.14		19w03c			Turtle egg clusters now use correct cullface arguments, with the exception of four turtle eggs, which still renders a redundant face.
		19w08a			The model of turtle eggs has been changed, as to not have a stretched texture.
Bedrock Edition
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Added sea turtle eggs.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Ravagers can now destroy turtle eggs in their path.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Turtle eggs now display as a 2D sprite in the inventory.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added sea turtle eggs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Turtle Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Turtle eggs cannot be trampled by bats, however, they can be trampled by other flying mobs such as bees.
• Babies always hatch facing south.

Gallery

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  A zombie stomping on turtle eggs.

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  The 3 stages a turtle egg goes through before it hatches: plain, slightly cracked, and cracked.

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  The different numbers of turtle eggs that can fit in one block.

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  Turtle eggs on a small island.

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  The detection range of hostile mobs toward turtle eggs

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  Graph of simulation results showing how long it takes turtle eggs to hatch

References

Blocks

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