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Who this is for: Minecraft players looking to craft turtle shells or brew Turtle Master potions.
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Finding and Breeding Turtles
Scutes come exclusively from baby turtles when they grow into adults, so your first step is locating turtles in their natural habitat. You’ll find sea turtles spawning on warm ocean beaches, typically in groups of 2-5. Look for sandy shorelines adjacent to warm ocean biomes – these creatures won’t appear in cold or frozen ocean areas.
The Breeding Process
Once you’ve found at least two turtles, you can start breeding them using seagrass. Dive underwater near kelp forests or ocean floors to collect seagrass with any tool or your bare hands. Feed seagrass to two nearby turtles to make them enter love mode, indicated by red hearts floating above their heads.
After mating, one turtle will return to its home beach to lay eggs. This process can take several minutes, so be patient. The pregnant turtle will dig into sand blocks and lay 1-4 turtle eggs, which appear as small, clustered blocks on the beach.
Protecting and Hatching Eggs
Turtle eggs are fragile and face multiple threats. Zombies, zombie villagers, husks, and drowned will actively seek out and trample eggs, while other mobs can accidentally destroy them by walking over them. Consider building a protective barrier around the eggs or lighting up the area to prevent hostile mob spawns.
Eggs hatch only at night and require several in-game days to mature. You can speed up the process by sleeping through days, as eggs progress toward hatching during nighttime hours. The eggs will crack progressively before finally hatching into baby turtles.
Collecting Your Scutes
Here’s the key part: baby turtles automatically drop one scute when they grow into adults. This growth process happens naturally over time, but you can accelerate it by feeding baby turtles seagrass. Each feeding reduces the remaining growth time by 10%.
Adult turtles don’t drop scutes when killed, so patience is essential. Focus on breeding multiple generations to establish a steady scute supply, as each baby turtle guarantees exactly one scute upon reaching adulthood.
What You Can Craft
Scutes serve as crafting materials for turtle shells, which require 5 scutes arranged in a helmet pattern. Turtle shells provide unique benefits: they grant water breathing for 10 seconds when worn and can be used to brew Potions of the Turtle Master, offering resistance and slowness effects.
Setting up a turtle farm near your base ensures a renewable source of these valuable crafting materials for your underwater adventures and potion brewing needs.
TL;DR
Scutes drop from baby turtles when they grow into adults. Breed turtles with seagrass, protect their eggs from mobs, and wait for babies to mature naturally or feed them seagrass to speed growth.
