[MC-273941] Scute drop from turtles appears to be hardcoded

The bug

The dropping of scutes from growing turtles appears to be a hardcoded item drop, rather than referring to a loot table as with just about all other item drops from mobs.

How to fix

Introduce a loot table for turtles dropping scutes.

Linked issues

relates to 18

MC-273944 Items removed from flower pots may be hardcoded Resolved

MC-94610 Missing loot table entries for mob heads from charged creepers Resolved

MC-109377 Non-mob entities have no loot tables Resolved

MC-149589 The wither boss will always drops a nether star regardless of its DeathLootTable data Open

MC-173732 Fire and soul fire do not have loot tables Resolved

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Comments 3

Viradex 2024-06-28T09:44:09Z

Can confirm by code analyzation of Minecraft 1.21 inside TurtleEntity.class. I can also not find any loot table relating to this.

protected void onGrowUp() {
    super.onGrowUp();
    if (!this.isBaby() && this.getWorld().getGameRules().getBoolean(GameRules.DO_MOB_LOOT)) {
      this.dropItem(Items.TURTLE_SCUTE, 1);
    }
}

[Mojang] Triage Team 2024-07-03T07:12:30Z

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muzikbike 2025-07-22T11:09:41Z

See reasoning provided for MC-109377, MC-273942 and MC-273943. In 24w37a, a loot table was introduced for armadillo scutes (MC-273942), and just an hour ago, the tickets MC-94610, MC-269838, MC-269839, MC-276529 and MC-276759 were all fixed. The continued nonexistence of a turtle scute loot table is not only a glaring inconsistency in the game itself, but this ticket's resolution is inconsistent with the four aforementioned tickets, alongside other previously fixed missing loot table reports. This should be reopened.