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1561 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 24, 2022   Report

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

2241 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 19, 2020   Report

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

1791 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 27, 2020   Report

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

1098 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 23, 2020   Report

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

1086 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 27, 2020   Report

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

977 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 9, 2019   Report

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?

544 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 28, 2020   Report

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.

481 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 28, 2020   Report

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

250 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 23, 2022   Report

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

387 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 2, 2020   Report

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!!!!!!!

159 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 3, 2023   Report

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.

281 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 23, 2021   Report

Probably the best platform dino to live on, the megachelon can fit a 5 by 7 of foundations on its shell, and many structures, like chemistry benches, grinders, and even industrial forges can be built on it while staying there when underwater. You don't even need scuba gear when going underwater, staying above one provides oxygen. Not only this, but they actually have surprisingly good melee damage, as well as being one of, if not the best fiber harvester in the game. Different resources will constantly build up in its inventory, including rare mushrooms and flowers. They also automatically irrigate any crops placed of them. Get an imprinted one for extra speed, damage, and resistance, then give it an good armor saddle from the frog escort mission in the bog, and you have an extremely tanky resource gathering portable base, war machine, greenhouse, and water exploration mount!

323 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 28, 2020   Report

Do not ever throw this out with cryosickness. It takes legit 10+ hours to wake back up. Craziest thing ever. Lol

174 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 1, 2022   Report

Controls for play station (just to be helpful):

R2: attack

L2: bubble attack

Right stick (push): dive

Left stick (push): N/A

/\: dismount

[]: their inventory

O: your inventory

X: quick ascend/ surface

Movement controls other than dive and surface are regular

-Sarco Master 🐊

275 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 1, 2020   Report

They have patched the render range range so ignore any tips that say to leave render as it will no longer. Guess I’m stuck with the turtles I have, I’ve spent three hours trying to take one of these things and had it walk out of the water which reset it taming! It was at 80% that time. Never got it above 20 after that. What he for the saber tooth salmon that spawn to kill the swarm if they bite the turtle it resets to zero and you start over. Extremely frustrating way to tame a creature. I would like to beat whoever came up with this idea.

128 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 17, 2022   Report

Go into the ocean in fjordor around the swamp island In the west of the map. You should see some turtles so to tame them find a school of fish and let them follow you to the large turtle. Swim beside it and try and get the fish to target the turtle. This will start the taming process keep doing this till tamed. For the saddle kill the turtles to get shell fragments and combine 22 of them with standard materials in a smithy. You can build on their saddle but don't cryopod if you have built. Make sure others see this

Ps: they are originally from genesis 1 in the ocean biome.

104 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 31, 2022   Report

NOT immune to jelly fish stuns. You will be dismounted all the same. Total bummer!

188 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 6, 2020   Report

produces rare flowers and mushrooms.

179 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 22, 2020   Report

Make sure to stick close while it's taming. They patched it so you can no longer tame it out of render distance

105 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 19, 2021   Report

If breeding on Lost Isles head to 42.5 lat 17.8 lon. you can breed in the bottom of that mini trench thing. Area is too hot to hatch in but you can just build a mini hut with an incubator and gen at the bottom. Set incubator to -5 that's my sweet spot.afterwards cryo it up ride to surface and imprint.

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