
Turtacle Terra
#37BAn extraordinarily tough shell developed to cover its fragile body. Its senses sit almost entirely in the shell and limbs, so a quiet touch to its core registers as nothing at all.
Type Effectiveness
Base Stats
Work Suitabilities
Turtacle Terra Food & Hunger
Higher food need means Turtacle Terra eats more often while working at your base.
Turtacle Terra Movement Speed
Behavior & Traits
Trust Bonuses (Partner Level)
How strongly Turtacle Terra's stats scale as its Trust level rises.
Turtacle Terra Stats by Level
What Turtacle Terra actually reads at each level, from a worst-case individual (IV 0) to a perfect one (IV 100). Condensing, souls and Trust all add on top of the figures shown.
| Level | HP | Attack | Defense |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lv 1 | 547–560 | 107–109 | 59–62 |
| Lv 10 | 975–1102 | 175–197 | 143–171 |
| Lv 20 | 1450–1705 | 250–295 | 237–293 |
| Lv 30 | 1925–2307 | 325–392 | 331–415 |
| Lv 40 | 2400–2910 | 400–490 | 425–537 |
| Lv 50 | 2875–3512 | 475–587 | 518–659 |
| Lv 60 | 3350–4115 | 550–685 | 612–781 |
How to Get Turtacle Terra
Turtacle Terra can be fished up rather than fought — 19 wild spots of the small kind hold it, at level 28–69. The alpha turns up on the bigger spots, so a rod can hand you one without a fight. Once you have a Fishing Pond at base it shows up there too — 10.1% per catch in the large pool, which is the hands-off way to farm one.
Turtacle Terra is Water / Ground, so an Electric or Grass attacker takes it down fastest — and a Pal it resists will drag the fight long enough for it to heal or flee.
Wild Turtacle Terra spawn between level 40 and 48. Higher-level ones are markedly harder to hold — take a low one first and come back for the rest when you are stacking a condenser.
Its capture rate is 1.0, which makes it middle of the road: take the health bar down first and aim for its back.
Playing Turtacle Terra Well
Fight it with Grass. Both of its elements take extra damage from Grass, and with 125 Defense against 85 HP it is the shell, not the health bar, that makes the fight long — a neutral weapon will chew through ammo where a Grass Pal ends it in a fraction of the time. Its own kit is almost entirely Shot-category with punishing cooldowns: Rock Lance is a 20-second reload and Rocky Impact and Geyser Gush are 30, so the safe rhythm is to break line of sight through the big attack, then close and unload during the gap.
Its partner skill, Shiny Hauler, is a mining-run tool: held in the party it cuts the carry weight of Sulfur and Coal by 80% at one star and 100% at five, and it raises the Ground-element damage that you and your party Pals deal to weak points by 25% up to 40%. That second half pairs with its own Ground moveset, so the same Pal you carry for the ore run also boosts the Rock Lance and Rocky Impact it throws. In a base it is a Mining 3 body that can also cover Watering 2, which makes it a reasonable single hire for an ore camp that needs a furnace kept fed and a farm plot kept wet.
There is a fixed pairing for this one that bypasses the usual breeding arithmetic, and it runs on Alphas: an Alpha Turtacle with an Alpha Digtoise produces Turtacle Terra directly. Two Alpha Turtacle Terra also breed back to Turtacle Terra. The ordinary field-caught versions of those two parents do not trigger it — they fall back to the normal chart, which is why hundreds of unrelated pairs also happen to land here and none of them are the route worth building for.
Turtacle Terra Tier List Rankings
| Ranking | Tier |
|---|---|
| Best Overall | C |
| Combat | C |
| Base Workers | C |
Wild Turtacle Terra Level Range
Wild Turtacle Terra roam at level 40–48 out in the world — plan your spheres and party level around that before hunting one on the interactive map.
Where to Find Turtacle Terra
Turtacle Terra spawn locations in the wild — every marked spot is a known spawn area.
Most of them are around Thirst's End (8.2% of known spots), with smaller pockets near Desiccated Coast and Windwatch Outlook. They come in groups of up to 2, so plan sphere stock for more than one.

Turtacle Terra in Base Raids
Turtacle Terra shows up in 4 raid groups that attack your base, at level 13–16 around the Desert. Worth knowing before you settle there — build your defences around what actually turns up.
Best Turtacle Terra Build
Turtacle Terra shines as a frontline attacker. Stack the passives below to lean into it; they come from catches, breeding lines or implants.
Partner skill: Shiny Hauler.
Best Turtacle Terra Moveset — Highest DPS
Ranked by sustained damage per second. STAB moves share Turtacle Terra's element for extra damage.
Active Skills (8)
| Lv | Move | Element | Power | Cooldown | DPS | Type | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bog Blast | 40 | 2s | 20 | Shot | 5000 | |
| 7 | Bubble Blast | 80 | 4s | 20 | Shot | 3500 | |
| 15 | Hydro Spin | 160 | 8s | 20 | Shot | 2000 | |
| 22 | Aqua Burst | 200 | 12s | 16.7 | Shot | 5000 | |
| 30 | Rockburst | 300 | 16s | 18.8 | Shot | 1200 | |
| 40 | Rock Lance | 400 | 20s | 20 | Shot | 5000 | |
| 50 | Rocky Impact | 600 | 30s | 20 | Melee | 5000 | |
| 70 | Geyser Gush | 600 | 30s | 20 | Melee | 5000 |
Drops
| Item | Qty | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1-2 | 100% | |
| 1-1 | 100% |
Alpha & Boss Turtacle Terra Drops
Boss encounters with Turtacle Terra drop these instead — including Ancient Civilization Parts.
Egg Moves (42)
| Move | Element | Power | DPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Blade | 160 | 20 | |
| Apocalypse | 400 | 20 | |
| Aqua Burst | 200 | 16.7 | |
| Aqua Surge | 500 | 20.8 | |
| Beam Slicer | 350 | 21.9 | |
| Charge Cannon | 400 | 20 | |
| Circle Vine | 300 | 18.8 | |
| Comet Strike | 180 | 22.5 | |
| Crosswind | 500 | 20.8 | |
| Curtain Splash | 300 | 18.8 | |
| Dark Laser | 450 | 22.5 | |
| Diamond Rain | 600 | 20 | |
| Dragon Breath | 160 | 20 | |
| Dragon Cannon | 40 | 20 | |
| Dragon Meteor | 600 | 20 | |
| Flame Funnel | 300 | 18.8 | |
| Flame Wall | 250 | 20.8 | |
| Freeze Wall | 200 | 16.7 | |
| Holy Burst | 700 | 23.3 | |
| Hydro Laser | 450 | 22.5 | |
| Hydro Slicer | 350 | 21.9 | |
| Iceberg | 120 | 15 | |
| Ignis Breath | 160 | 20 | |
| Ignis Rage | 500 | 20.8 | |
| Lightning Bolt | 450 | 22.5 | |
| Lock-on Laser | 140 | 17.5 | |
| Nightmare Ball | 300 | 18.8 | |
| Pal Blast | 450 | 22.5 | |
| Power Bomb | 120 | 15 | |
| Reflect Leaf | 400 | 20 | |
| Rockburst | 300 | 18.8 | |
| Rocky Impact | 600 | 20 | |
| Sand Twister | 500 | 20.8 | |
| Solar Blast | 450 | 22.5 | |
| Spark Blast | 50 | 25 | |
| Splash | 160 | 20 | |
| Thunder Rain | 400 | 20 | |
| Thunderstorm | 600 | 20 | |
| Torrential Blast | 250 | 20.8 | |
| Tri-Lightning | 200 | 16.7 | |
| TriSpark | 250 | 20.8 | |
| Volcanic Rain | 450 | 22.5 |
What Turtacle Terra Can Breed Into (131)
Put Turtacle Terra in a Breeding Farm with the right partner and these are the 131 Pals that can come out. The pairings needing the fewest specific partners are listed first — those are the ones worth planning a chain around.
+91 more — work out any pairing in the breeding calculator →
Unique Turtacle Terra Combos (1)
Unique offspring Turtacle Terra helps produce as a parent.
How to Breed Turtacle Terra (338 parent combos)
Full guide: How to breed Turtacle Terra →