Turtle Egg

Turtle Egg

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	?
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Sounds	Lay egg Jumping on Break Crack Hatch
Drops	Itself
Name	turtle_egg

Not to be confused with Turtle Spawn Egg.

Turtle eggs are blocks that hatch into baby turtles.

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, or if a gravity-affected block falls into its space, the egg will break without dropping anything. Turtle eggs will also break when standing on them; they will break one-by one until all eggs in the block are broken.

Breeding turtles

When two turtles are bred with seagrass, one of them will burrow around in the sand and lay an egg block that contains 1-4 eggs after several seconds. The egg will go through three stages before hatching, which will only happen when the egg is placed on regular sand, and then only at night. The egg cannot begin the hatching process if it is placed on red sand. The time until hatching varies (typically taking several nights), even for eggs lain on the same beach on the same day.

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.

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, one egg will break on the block.

Most undead hostile mobs will 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.

Data values

Block states

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
eggs	1 2 3 4	Number of eggs.
hatch	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, will seek out and trample turtle eggs.
			18w19a		Turtle eggs now have a proper item texture.
			18w22a		If the player is inside the hitbox of one turtle egg, and another is attempted to be placed, the placement will fail.
					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.
Upcoming Java Edition
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.
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 amounts 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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