Turtle Spawn Egg — Minecraft block

The Turtle Spawn Egg is a Creative-mode item that spawns a sea turtle when used on a block in Minecraft. Like every spawn egg, it cannot be crafted, mined, or found in Survival — you obtain it only from the Creative inventory or with the /give @s turtle_spawn_egg command. The egg shows a light-green base with darker green spots that match a turtle's shell. It was added in Java Edition 1.13 (Update Aquatic) and Bedrock Edition 1.5, alongside turtles themselves.

Used on the ground, the egg spawns one adult turtle; in roughly 10% of uses the turtle appears as a baby, and using the egg on an adult turtle always produces a baby. This lets map makers and builders place sea turtles anywhere, not only on the beach biomes where they spawn naturally. Feeding a baby seagrass speeds up its growth, and two adults fed seagrass breed — one becomes pregnant, returns to its home beach, buries itself in the sand, and lays 1–4 turtle eggs. The item behaves the same in both Java and Bedrock Edition and is most useful for testing, custom maps, and breeding-farm prototypes.