Talk:Turtle Egg

Nurturing
Apparently Turtles can nurture their own eggs and cause them to hatch monumentally faster, it happened overnight as I watched an adult turtle stand over their eggs and green sparkles came out. Seconds later, sudden baby turtles. I couldn't find this behavior anywhere else on the internet or the Wiki, nor remember it being in the changelogs, and wanted to throw it up on the talk page for clarification. 108.168.105.54 12:51, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Hatching time
Does anyone know even very approximately how lot it takes them to hatch? 97.116.153.13 03:02, 31 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Could swear I heard /read somewhere it was a (vague guesstimate, you asked for it) 5-15 min. period of time. Mind the (Hostile /"Neutral") Mobs! Yilante 4 /6 /18  7:54 pm 108.215.209.201 02:55, 7 April 2018 (UTC)


 * I've had trouble hatching eggs in non-beach chunks 67.171.122.124 02:11, 15 July 2018 (UTC), and now I've also seen masses of turtle eggs hatch only at just after dusk and just before dawn. 0Blok 67.171.122.124 14:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)


 * My girl is having a similar result to this, and was asking me if turtle eggs only hatch at night. I guess realistically that would make sense, but I had to say no one seems to know.  Firebastard (talk) 06:04, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Turtle eggs do not only grow through their stages at night. This was tested in both Java as well as Bedrock editions. I'm not sure about the hatching itself, whether this is different, but unlikely. – Jack McKalling [ Book and Quill.png Diamond Pickaxe.png ] 10:02, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Tested further, hatching itself is not different from growth stages. Turtles hatch from eggs during the day as well. – Jack McKalling [ Book and Quill.png Diamond Pickaxe.png ] 16:17, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
 * "A new egg placed near another egg that is about to hatch causes the new egg to hatch faster.[verify]" Here's a verification video. 66.229.8.56 15:39, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm not seeing how that video verifies the claim. Can you explain what's going on? ~ Amatulic (talk) 21:11, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * By placing a turtle egg onto the same block as another turtle egg that has already gone through at least one hatching stage, the newly placed egg will instantly have the same level of hatching stages. 66.229.8.56 15:03, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Exposure to light
" The egg will not hatch unless exposed to the sky, with no opaque blocks overhead." This is not true. My first batch were all zombie stomped, so I put a stone brick shelf 1 block above the sand. The eggs all hatched. (Java/Survival) Buckosoft (talk) 23:53, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I removed it. I wonder if turtle eggs fully enclosed will still hatch? ~Amatulić (talk) 17:11, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Face Culling
Can confirm (using spectator), one of the faces still renders. (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/560491103137169443/609152769579810824/unknown.png) Samario1 (talk) 22:37, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Detection range
The page describes the detection range is taxicab distance of 23 blocks. However, the actual detection range is 23 blocks for the north-south and east-west axes independently. In other words, the detection range can be described as a 47 by 47 square with the turtle eggs in the middle. Taxicab distance, on the other hand, would be a 23 radius diamond.

Source: ilmango's River Biome Trident Farm video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZCBqjvMtNs&t=486

Red Sand
There's contradicting messages about whether or not eggs can hatch on red sand. Which is it? 68.190.118.39 07:22, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Does Doing /Timeset make turtle eggs grow faster?
So Im making a pond for turtles in my creative game. I want baby turtles so Will this work or no? --Realagent7 (talk) 07:26, 10 January 2021 (UTC)QuietSnow678
 * If you set time to 21600, the eggs will have an almost guarentee to hatch. – Unavailablehoax (talk) 07:37, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Skipping time will not change anything in the game, /time or beds. All the time skipped is lost. Turtle eggs still use random ticks to increaae hatching state. Dhranios (talk) (Join the wiki videos project!) 08:03, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * This page is for discussing the Minecraft wiki, not for asking questions about Minecraft. This discussion should have been started on the talk page of a related article. Fadyblok240 (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Contradicting statements in page
"If broken without the enchantment, pushed by a piston, or a player or gravity-affected block falls onto it, the egg breaks without dropping anything."

"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."

--121.99.220.3 20:46, 28 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I fixed it. I confirmed that gravity-affected blocks like sand and anvils turn into an item when falling onto an egg. If a player or mob falls on the egg, the egg has a chance of breaking. Amatulic (talk) 23:10, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Hatch in the rain?
I have two piles of eggs, and just went through a night with no cracking. However, it was thundering, and I'm speculating that maybe it doesn't work while in a thunderstorm. Can anybody confirm or deny this? SirDaddicus (talk) 02:20, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * According to the code, it is exclusively based upon the time of day and if it's placed on sand. You were probably just unlucky. - CrowdingFaun624 (talk) 03:37, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I agree. I just had it happen again, and it's not raining. SirDaddicus (talk) 17:56, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Time window for hatching?
Is the range of 21600 to 22550 stated in the article correct? If I go in creative world, doDaylightCycle false, randomTickSpeed 20, /time set 22000, the eggs don't hatch quickly. If I do /time set 21999, they do hatch. So it seems the upper end of the range is 22000. This is in version 1.20.1. (It seems like the lower end of the range is somewhere around 21090) Greenpepperpasta (talk) 02:17, 4 August 2023 (UTC)