Placing turtle eggs on sand ,in any biome other than Beach, make them unable to hatch.
I tested it on a new world, with a RandomTickSpeed of 5000, on a few different biome, containing naturally generated sand or not, near water or not, facing the ocean or not. Only in the beach Biome turtles eggs are hatching.
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Is there any other conditions? I just tried in a desert too, and it hatch (at night), but in the plains biome nearby, on a manually placed patch of sand, still at night, nothing happens.
There are no references to biomes anywhere in this code. I really do not know why it'd relate to biomes.
fyi, there is another ticket about turtle eggs not hatching, reason unknown: MC-189686
Just tested this in 1.14.4 and 1.16-pre5, in a forest and a beach biome, with randomTickSpeed set to 3000. In the older version, turtles hatch fine under the right conditions (eggs placed on sand, during nighttime) in both biomes, in 1.16-pre5 they only hatch in the beach biome, eggs located in the forest remain inactive. This would confirm Jojopanis's observations.
Cannot reproduce, I just hatched a turtlle in a desert. Remember that turtle eggs only hatch at night.