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Stop making us kill turtles!

Turtles in game were designed to reflect turtles in the real world, to some degree.

In-game, the player must protect turtle eggs and baby turtles from predators who want to destroy them, so that they can make it out into the ocean, similar to how people protect the endangered speices from their natural predators in the real world so they can survive the trip to sea.

There's just one problem: ADULT TURTLES DON'T DESPAWN.

As this is the case, the player--after breeding turtles for scutes--will be forced to go out and kill turtles to avoid overpopulation, and lagging their game with an overabundance of entities.

The fix for this should be simple; make unnamed adult turtles despawn during the night when far enough away from the player. Just be sure to make turtles spawn on beaches in the daytime without issues, so that they still appear in-game, unlike how rarely peaceful mobs spawn due to not despawning like they did back in beta.

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    yes, because we already dont murder thousands of bred cows, pigs, sheep, and chicken every minecraft day.

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    How about making adult turtles despawn if they haven't bred, similar to hoglins, so that baby turtles grow up before despawning. Of course turtles that spawn with world generation won't despawn. This would be nice because killing turtles is tedious and only drops seagrass.

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    @SwissGrater -Those mobs were designed to be killed for resources. Turtles were designed to be protected, and there's no benefit to killing them--only letting them grow into adults.

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    This needs more attention. I gotta kill baby turtles so I don't lag out the game due to too many entities.

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    i just wish they dropped more scutes and turtle meat, maybe turtle shell knee pads/shoulder pads or somthing. dropping seaweed is fair but id like more with the scutes and shells. seems their only purpose is growing up. i love the life they add to the oceans, i got 80 turtles but the scutes despawn too fast or somthing cause i only got about half that right now.

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    A better solution would be to limit turtle breeding if too many of them are in one chunk... Maybe 10 per chunk is a good limit

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    I would agree that turtles seem more like a plague than a rare and interesting game mechanic. It seems like beach quickly becomes busy with constant turtle activity. In the fight to control lag it would be nice to tweak turtle spawning to be more rare.

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    No i love killing them but i dont like pacifism