How do you get Turtle Egg in Minecraft?

Turtle Egg is obtained through mining (with Silk Touch), and Turtle Egg from Turtle breeding. No recipe exists for Turtle Egg: what you see above is how it enters the game.

How long does Turtle Egg take to break?

Look up Turtle Egg and you get 0.5 hardness, with 0.5 blast resistance on it. Since neither figure on Turtle Egg is raised, it behaves the same under a pickaxe and under a blast. The game lists no preferred tool for Turtle Egg, so your hand on it is as good as any. Java 26.2 sets Turtle Egg at these values, and we copied them onto it.

How many Turtle Egg can you stack?

Turtle Egg goes 64 to the slot, which is 1,728 in a shulker box and 3,456 in a double chest. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

When was Turtle Egg added to Minecraft?

Turtle Egg was added in version 1.13.

Utility Blocks

Turtle Egg

A block laid by turtles on sand. Hatches into baby turtles after several night cycles.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Turtle Egg at a glance

Mining (with Silk Touch) and Turtle breeding give you Turtle Egg, a block filed under Utility Blocks. A single slot takes 64 Turtle Egg, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Turtle Egg has a hardness of 0.5. A creeper does to Turtle Egg what a tool does, because both work against 0.5. It sits between Tuff Bricks and Vine in Utility Blocks, number 320 of 340 there.

How to obtain

Mining (with Silk Touch)
Turtle breeding

Notes

Trampled by most mobs if unprotected.

Frequently asked questions about Turtle Egg

How do you get Turtle Egg in Minecraft?
Turtle Egg is obtained through mining (with Silk Touch), and Turtle Egg from Turtle breeding. No recipe exists for Turtle Egg: what you see above is how it enters the game.
What is Turtle Egg used for?
A block laid by turtles on sand. Hatches into baby turtles after several night cycles.
How long does Turtle Egg take to break?
Look up Turtle Egg and you get 0.5 hardness, with 0.5 blast resistance on it. Since neither figure on Turtle Egg is raised, it behaves the same under a pickaxe and under a blast. The game lists no preferred tool for Turtle Egg, so your hand on it is as good as any. Java 26.2 sets Turtle Egg at these values, and we copied them onto it.
How many Turtle Egg can you stack?
Turtle Egg goes 64 to the slot, which is 1,728 in a shulker box and 3,456 in a double chest. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.
When was Turtle Egg added to Minecraft?
Turtle Egg was added in version 1.13.

Building with it

Turtle eggs are laid on the sand where a turtle hatched, and they hatch at night into babies that grow up into scutes. Anything that walks over them breaks them, so a fence and a lit beach are what stand between the eggs and an empty nest.

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