Turtle Egg

Turtle Egg

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	2.5
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 414 hex: 19E bin: 110011110
Namespaced ID	turtle_egg

Not to be confused with Turtle Spawn Egg.

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

Natural generation

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 that contains 1-4 eggs after several seconds. The egg goes through three stages before hatching. Hatching occurs only when the egg is placed on regular sand. The egg cannot begin the hatching process if it is placed on red sand. The time until hatching varies (typically taking several day and nights), even for eggs laid on the same beach on the same day. The eggs can grow as well as hatch during day and night, but grow faster during the night.

Obtaining

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 the player falls onto it from a higher block, the egg breaks without dropping anything.

Usage

Turtle eggs can be placed similarly to normal solid blocks, and slowly hatch into turtles. Up to 4 turtle eggs can be placed onto 1 block. Turtle eggs only hatch if on sand (not red sand). They hatch significantly faster at nighttime.

If a player or large-enough mob, armor stand, falling block, or item‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} falls or stands on an egg for a certain amount of time, the egg breaks. As long as the entity remains on the egg block, the eggs break one at a time until all eggs in the block are destroyed.

Most undead hostile mobs actively seek out and trample turtle eggs, breaking egg after egg on the block until all of them have been destroyed, unless mobGriefing is false.

A new egg placed near another egg that is about to hatch causes the new egg to hatch faster.^[verify]

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Min. volume
	Turtle egg hatches	entity.turtle.egg_hatch	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_hatch	?	?	?	?
	Turtle egg cracks	entity.turtle.egg_crack	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_crack	?	?	?	?
	Turtle egg breaks	entity.turtle.egg_break	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_break	?	?	?	?
	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Data values

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.

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w07a			Added turtle eggs.
		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.
					Now makes placement sounds when the amount in a stack is increased.
					More turtle eggs than normal can 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.[needs testing]
Bedrock Edition
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Added sea turtle eggs.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			A ravager can destroy turtle eggs in its path.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Turtle eggs now display as a 2D sprite in the inventory.
Legacy Console Edition
TU68		1.76	Patch 38		Added sea turtle eggs.

Issues

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

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 very 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.

References

Blocks

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