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

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 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 typically takes several day cycles. The eggs mature and hatch during both day and night, but grow faster at night.

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. Beginning at sundown they have a chance to hatch throughout the night increasing in percentages significantly at or after 3/4 of the night completed. (Eggs do not appear to progress towards hatching if the player is not awake and within 50+ blocks.)

The more cracks the egg has, the closer it is to hatching.

If a player or large-enough mob, armor stand, falling block, or item‌^{[JE only][until JE 1.16]} 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.

Zombies and their variants seek out and trample turtle eggs that have 2 blocks of air above them, breaking egg after egg on the block until all of them have been destroyed, unless mobGriefing is false. The range of detection is a taxicab distance of 23 blocks away horizontally and 3 blocks vertically (counted from the block the mob is standing on). They however when a player in Survival or Adventure Gamemode is near by, the Zombie will prefer to attack the player rather than stomping the turtle egg.

Eggs do not require a supporting block and are capable of supporting lanterns hanging under them.

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	?	?	entity.turtle.egg_hatch	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_hatch	?	?	16
	Turtle egg cracks	?	?	entity.turtle.egg_crack	subtitles.entity.turtle.egg_crack	?	?	16
	Turtle 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 very cracked egg.
	9	Two very cracked eggs.
	10	Three very cracked eggs.
	11	Four very 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 now 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.

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.

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  The detection range of hostile mobs towards turtle eggs

References

Blocks

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