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I know guardians were just added, but the ocean still seems kinda barren, with just bunches of derpy squids swimming around. (Not that I dont love squids)



So, you're swimming in the ocean, when something catches your eye. Could it be? After taking a huge breath, you sink down. Hiding in the seaweed, a turtle sits in the sand. Slowly you sneak up behind it, and put a lead on it. You bring it up above water, where you already have prepared a nice little habitat for your new friend. After leading the turtle into its new watery home, you sit on it. After a minute of trials and almost drowning twice, the turtle is yours! You grab your saddle, and throw it on, ready to explore the ocean!

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Sea turtles would a pretty rare mob, so you would have to search a bit for one. They only spawn in Oceans (not deep oceans) near shore. They spawn between 8-12 blocks deep, and sand/gravel has to be at the bottom. Basically they are like land mobs, because they need to spawn with solid blocks underneath them and water surrounding them.

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Once you have found a sea turtle, you can tame it the same way as a horse. After sitting on it a few times, you will tame it. You can put saddlebags on a turtle as well. A turtle can swim between 6-8 m/s (slightly faster than a boat). They have between 15 and 20 hp. - It has the same controls as a horse, but in the ocean. You can also go underwater with your turtle, but beware of drowning! You can press S to go down and space to go up.

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Much like ocelots, sea turtles will swim away if you approach them quickly. You can lure them with seaweed. If sea turtles stay on land for more than 3 minutes, they will start to die. You can breed sea turtles with either seaweed or golden seaweed. Vote in the poll for golden seaweed or normal seaweed!

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A sea turtle's shell is about the size of 1 block, but is thinner and slightly rounded on the edges. Its head and flippers extend out slightly. Upon killing a turtle, there is a rare chance that you will receive a turtle shell and you will get 0-2 turtle meat. The shell can be used as a helmet, giving 1 armor bar .It has 122 durability, more than gold but less than iron. Turtle shells stack up to 2. You can also use the turtle shell to put mushroom and rabbit stew in, and you get the shell back instead of a bowl. The turtle meat can also be cooked to fill 5 hunger and 9.6 saturation. Raw turtle meat restores 1 hunger. With a carrot, bowl/shell, cooked turtle meat, and a red or brown mushroom, you can make turtle stew, which restores a whopping 10 hunger and 11 saturation.

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As mentioned before, seaweed grows naturally underwater. They can grow on sand, gravel, and grass, at any depth below 4. They spawn in patches rather than just randomly. They look like normal grass, coming in tall (2 blocks) and normal (1 block) variants. You cannot "grow" seaweed, but if you use bonemeal underwater at any depth below 4, you can grow more seaweed. You can harvest seaweed with your fists and with shears. While seaweed cannot be placed above land on grass/sand, it can be placed in flower pots.

Seaweed has only a few uses. They can be used for decoration, attracting/breeding sea turtles, and a food source. Seaweed can also spawn in lakes/ponds, if they are at a depth below 4. Eating seaweed replenishes 3 hunger points and gives you 1 saturation point. It has a 50% chance at poisoning you, giving you hunger for 10 seconds. Its not the best food source, but better than starving to death at sea!

Encountering seaweed underwater slows you down. If you swim through it, it has the same effect as soul sand. It makes you go 50% of your normal speed.

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Added turtle meat and stew, and added turtle breeding.

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Turtles would be cool, and would be a lot better to ride than boats. Also, you included tons of information, which is nice, because it almost includes everything you need to know. Also, if I may, a breathing helmet or some sort of breath-increaser would be cool, so you could go underwater more. :3

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Turtles would be cool, and would be a lot better to ride than boats. Also, you included tons of information, which is nice, because it almost includes everything you need to know. Also, if I may, a breathing helmet or some sort of breath-increaser would be cool, so you could go underwater more. :3

Although helmets would be cool, they would be OP and we already have Aqua Affinity enchantments and water breathing potions Thanks though!

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also add turtle meat, for turtle soup!

-perhaps one turtle meat, one carrot, one mushroom, and the bowl/shell.

also perhaps the shell or the meat can be an ingredient for a depth-strider potion (there isn't one is there?).

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also add turtle meat, for turtle soup!

-perhaps one turtle meat, one carrot, one mushroom, and the bowl/shell.

also, also the shell perhaps the shell or the meat can be an ingredient for a depth-strider potion (there isn't one is there?).

I like the idea of turtle meat! Thanks - added to main post.

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Very detailed. I like this idea, but turtles need a little something more unique than boats. Maybe Guardians would be neutral when you're riding a turtle?
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Sounds like a good idea, but like the above said we need something that makes these guys unique from boats.

Maybe turtles can attack Guardians and Squids? I dont want them to be too OP though as they already go faster than boats and can go underwater.

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I think turtles have unique use; they can go underwater! With boat you can't.
Anyway, I think it would be really cute to have turtle pets and I wish you could breed them to get a baby turtle!

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Yeah you should probably be able to breed them with seaweed or golden seaweed, thanks for the idea!

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This would be a great addition, not to mention the detail and story paragraph you put into it. It was enjoyable to read, and makes sense. As of for my vote on seaweed; I chose normal seaweed. Like you said, sea turtles are rare, imagine finding two of them and then needing to craft something that could take plenty of time to make alone. Good luck!

You should have to use a turtle shell for the turtle soup. It's a good food source, so it should be harder to get.

I like sea turtles.

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You should have to use a turtle shell for the turtle soup. It's a good food source, so it should be harder to get.

Rabbit stew is better than turtle stew though, and I think itd be kinda odd to only be able to eat turtle stew in a turtle shell. Its like saying you can only eat strawberries in a strawberry bowl but you can eat any other food in a strawberry bowl. You get the shell back after eating the stew anyway

SUPPORT! i really want to see turtles in minecraft!
But i don't like that much the idea of the turtle stew, food is already too easy to get.

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SUPPORT! i really want to see turtles in minecraft!
But i don't like that much the idea of the turtle stew, food is already too easy to get.

Turtles are pretty rare though, so its not like youre going to be seeing 100s of them as you boat through the ocean.

The helmet idea seems really cool. Along with the turtle, there is a Mod called the reptiles mod and i'm sure that you can place saddles on them. The idea of riding the turtle would be fun but you would barely get to ride it before you have to go up and get air again.

i like it! boats are near useless they break far too easy. unless the turtle breaks when it hits land. . . SUPPORT!

Turtle riding sounds cool, why was this thread gone?

This...Is actually a pretty good idea. I like the seaweed, but it would be tricksy to program (probably, I'm no expert) because it would have to have a good in water model. It can't be like sugar cane and have air pockets within itself. This could probably be done, though.



I like the turtles too. Horses are useless in water, and this would help a lot.

But one concern. In a suggestion about squirrels, some dude freaked out and said this can't be done because squirrels are endangered (Which is kinda dumb because they aren't).

Turtles on the other hand are most defiantly endangered,and having turtle shell soup would really tick off those PETA people and make them freak out.

You might want to try to revise that a bit before they discover it.



Anyway, Full support! -For you


EDIT: Defiantly do golden Seaweed

Support, I love this idea very much. Normal seaweed I think is good for breeding.

Riding turtles? Unrealistic.

I like sea turtles, but not this sea turtle idea.

You might be able to ride GIANT sea turtless, but not normal ones

Also, most sea turtles eat jellyfish or coral, not sea weed

As well, turtles have lungs, so they can live on land forever (they shouldn't die on land), but they have to surface to breath air when underwater

I'm sorry, but this sea turtle idea is too unrealistic, and too much like horses,

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