Turtle Mob Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about turtles with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about turtles in Minecraft.

Background

The following is a picture of what a turtle looks like in Minecraft:

Hostility Level	Passive Mob
Health Points	30 health points  x 15
Where to Find	Beach biome
Weapon	None
Attack Method	Will never attack you
Drops	 2 Seagrass
Experience Points	1-3 experience points

Hostility Level (Passive)

A turtle is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and turtles. Because a turtle is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a turtle has 15 hearts

 for health. This gives a turtle 30 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a turtle, you need to inflict 30 points of damage to the turtle.

Where to Find Turtles

In Minecraft, turtles can be found in the Beach biome.

While turtles are generally found swimming in the water, if you do find a turtle on land it will be moving very slowly and will probably be headed in the direction of the nearest body of water. Turtles can be persuaded to follow you if you hold seagrass.

If you are having trouble finding a turtle, you can summon a turtle using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A turtle does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

You are safe to walk near a turtle and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a turtle, it will just turn itself around and slowly move away. It will not attack you back.

Drops

When you kill a turtle in Minecraft, it will drop seagrass.

Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a turtle, you will gain 1-3 experience points.

Spawn Egg for Turtle

You can spawn a turtle using the following spawn egg:

Turtle Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Turtles

Here are some activities that you can do with turtles in Minecraft:

How to Breed Turtles
How to make a Turtle Egg
How to Hatch Turtle Eggs

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a turtle in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Turtle
How to Summon a Baby Turtle

NBT Tags for Turtle (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a turtle in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Turtle

Spawn Events for Turtle (Bedrock/Education)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a turtle in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:

Spawn Events for Turtle

Turtle Seeds

You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a biome with turtles:

Turtle Seeds (Java Edition)
Turtle Seeds (Bedrock Edition)

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

Allay
  Axolotl
Bat
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
  Chicken
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
  Horse
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC