When walking a carbonemys backwards towards a turret it takes less damage towards the carbonemys , making draining a turret more efficient.

When backing it up to drain turrets, set it to follow something that's in a safe place before you hop on. That way if you get sniped off the saddle your turtle will follow whatever animal to safety.

The carbonemys is perhaps one of the best creatures to tame in the early game, and provides decent protection against dilos and lone raptors. The carbonemys can easily be knocked out with a slingshot, and even a survivor with base movement speed can outrun one, making it one of the easiest tames for the early game. Not only can it carry a lot, it can be used a bait for taming (or escaping) big carnivores that would love to eat you and you (amazing pink dodo) for a snack.
PROS
Amazing for early game
Bulky
Can carry lots of stuff
An easy source of meat, keratin, hide, and XP for early game players

CONS
Really slow on land
Gets stuck on stuff a lot
Makes annoying wailing noises all the time

Ride it backwards towards auto turrets to drain the ammunition.

Due to a recent update of turrets are set to players only the turtle loses its full potential as the turrets will target the person riding it rather than the turtle

If you are too lazy to tame but need an effective small creature defense hop on one's back in the wild and some small creatures will hurt it instead of you.

They changed the turtle it can no longer soak turrets this happened long before the date on this tip ):

Carbonemys have a lot of health, and becuase of this i use it as bait when i am trying to tame carnivores to lure them towards me. These turtles can also be used for berry farming although they are not amazing at it.

Give it a beer and walk it backwards towards and auto turrets to drain bullets

Great early tame to keep around waters you’ll have to cross often - just level health and melee and park it in the water (as they can’t drown) in neutral and they’ll draw in and kill any piranhas that spawn nearby. Presumably possible to do in the oceans with Megalodons as well since they’re drawn to tamed creatures.

Carbonemys are walking refrigerators! Eggs will last a lot longer.. They can last up to 30 days.

The hard shell can tank almost anything. A must have tame for raids.

Pump meele and it can take on aphale whale

If you have a boat you should have at least two

Solid early-game tame. Easy to get without having any tames, but can easily tank most beach-dwellers while hauling resources.

Seriously im not joking when i say this......turtles are SO overpowered

When you dismount him u stand on his back. You can use him like a rock to KO dilos and raptors or stay out of the reach of Bob's club. Also the only herbivore that can be penned underwater. Build a 2x2 and hide him in the ocean with your goodies.

With the new option to turret targeting, the turtle is now useless for turret draining, and overall in my opinion.

Extremely useful if you have a high level one with levels put into health with a high level saddle, because you can use these paired with sweet veggie cake to tame a tusoteuthis.

They make for decent berry farmers. They have collection rates almost as good as a trike, they don't have the big area of effect

A good tame to have for early players that want to explore the ocean a little. Be warned, you shouldn’t take it too far in as things can get a bit rough quickly. Good if you want to cross a river that’s deep and may be dangerous. Very slow on land however. Make sure to buff it’s health and speed.