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How to Make Turtle Shell in Minecraft
Top row: Turtle Scute, Turtle Scute, Turtle Scute. Bottom row: Turtle Scute, empty, Turtle Scute.
What you need
- Turtle Scute×5
Worth knowing
- Five turtle scutes in the standard helmet shape; the item id is turtle_helmet.
- While your head is out of the water it keeps Water Breathing topped up at 10 seconds, so every dive starts with 10 extra seconds of air.
- 2 armour points and 275 durability; a scute drops when a baby turtle grows up, so five turtles must be raised.
- The shape matters but its position does not — this works in any corner of the grid, as long as the arrangement is the same.
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