You can build on its back without a saddle, however IF YOU EQUIP A SADDLE YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING. If you cryo you will also LOSE EVERYTHING regardless of saddle or not. Vote for more people to see

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They apparently have some sort of gravity field on them allowing players to walk on its back while submerged

Don’t cyropod them!! You will lose everything you built on their shell!

You can breed them in the squid trench on rag and incubate the eggs there also

You can use hlna to teleport you and your turtle anywhere (they can walk on land) but can only breed under water.

Tamed you'll be able to build on its back. When diving he provides an oxygen bubble on his back allowing you to submerge your base on the floor of the ocean.

Are you turtley enough for the turtle club?

It does NOT irrigate crop plots on its back or in a building.

A passively tamed creature that requires you to,”Feed” it a school of parakeet fish. (Tiny glowing schools of blue fish that look like drones, usually around the turtles themselves.)

You need to aggro the school of fish by walking into them which gives you a,”You are being targeted by a Microbe Swarm” pop up, then slowly lead the school to the turtle and swim alongside it which automatically starts the taming progress at 0% which then slowly climbs to 100%. During the taming process Sabertooth salmons and coelacanth will randomly spawn around the turtle and try to kill the school of fish to stop the tame.

However this can be easily cheesed by killing all the salmons and bigger coelacanths until a small coelacanth spawns which cannot keep up with the turtle and the school of fish, so let him try to catch up while the taming bar fills up.

Scuba gear is also not necessary, as the turtle constantly produces oxygen around it which refills your oxygen meter.

Passive Tame: You kite a parrot fish swarm to the turtle then guard the turtle from sharks and things.

While the turtle "feeds" on the swarm! Any damage resets timer to 0!

Getting inside it with Honey is BS and will NOT work.

Crop plots built on the shell are automatically irrigated. No need for pipes!