Sea turtle eggs!

Sea turtles are an AWESOME new animal addition in the new aquatic update, and here is a how-to on how to get some cute little baby turtles for your personal aquarium!

First, you need two sea turtles. Feed them sea grass (the short grassy stuff that will often grow near kelp, obtained with shears), and feed it to both of the sea turtles.

NOTE: Make sure you have a nearby beach/sandy area of some sort near by for this part!

One of the sea turtles will head to the beach, find a place to dig (Note: if the turtle you are breeding was hatched from an egg by a turtle you bred, the turtle will return to the same beach, and often it will want to lay it's eggs in the same place as their old egg was hatched, which can lead to a turtle getting a bit stuck if she tries to dig on top of other eggs, I have had some turtles take a very long time and a lot of nudging before they would lay their eggs.), and begin doing a digging animation (this part is clear because sand particles fly EVERYWHERE). Then, they will lay some eggs. Each block can hold up to 4 eggs, and a minimum of 1. Well, a block can can hold 0 sea turtle eggs, but then it wouldn't count as a block with sea turtle eggs on it. Once the sea turtle has laid the eggs, it will return to the water. Turtle eggs can take a VERY long time to hatch, and bonemeal will do nothing to speed it up. The only way I have found to help speed it up is to set the random tick speed to higher, but you have to be careful because it will speed other things up as well. Here is the command if you want to try it: /gamerule randomTickSpeed 5000.

(Notice: Setting the tick speed high also drastically speeds up crops growing, and other things like it!)

WARNING: This sets the tick speed VERY high! It may cause quite a lot of lag, so don't keep it high for long. To turn it back to normal, do /gamerule randomTickSpeed 3.

Also, turtle eggs are hunted by zombies and drowned. To stop them from getting to the eggs, you can build a small "house" for the eggs.

NOTICE: Wild Wolves and Ocelots will also attack turtle eggs, so you can put a trap door on the front to stop them, but you will have to check very regularly, because if you have the trapdoor closed all the time, the turtles can all get trapped in the one block turtle house together.

(I put the trapdoor on this by placing a block above where the trapdoor is, placing the trapdoor under the block, then destroying the block. If you put the trapdoor underneath, it will make it hard for the turtles to get out.)

Turtle eggs have "stages" that they hatch in, the first stage is right after the turtle has laid the eggs, second is where the eggs start to develop some cracks, third is where even MORE cracks appear, and last is hatched.

To pick up and move around a turtle egg, you have to use a silk touch enchanted tool. If you pick it up when it has cracks in it, when you place it again it will be set to the first stage and take longer to hatch, so it is better to pick up eggs right after they have been laid, so you don't waste time.

Once the turtles have hatched, they will make their way to the water. You can feed them seagrass to make them grow up faster, and when they grow up they will drop a scute, which is used to make a turtle shell helmet.