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

-AK

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?

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!

Lead it into a line of stone behemoth gates and close a gate behind it and it will be trapped or you make a square box of Dino gates and nothing can mess its taming up while it’s being tamed so up this!!!!!!!

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