Turtle Taming

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Turtle Tamers have the ability to find and tame various turtles, which in turn provide items, equipment, and familiars.

Turtle Tamers make progress in encountering a Turtle Taming adventure for a specific zone every time they win a combat. Each zone has its own counter for the amount of turns required until a Turtle Taming adventure occurs. Therefore, spending turns in another zone will not make progress in encountering a Turtle Taming adventure for other zones.

When defeating a copied monster, you will make progress in the last zone you've adventured in. This allows you to encounter Turtle Taming adventures even in zones that contain no monsters.

The delay for the first Turtle Taming adventures is significantly shorter than subsequent Turtle Taming adventures. Either delay can be decreased with items with the effect "Helps You Tame Turtles". The following have the "Helps You Tame Turtles" effect:

• Eau de Tortue, from turtle pheromones (30 Adventures)
• turtling rod/Flail of the Seven Aspects (Does not stack with each other)
• Garter of the Turtle Poacher

Number of effects	1st Encounter delay	Subsequent delay
0	7	70?
1	5	39-41
2	3	22-23
3	2	19-21

Turtles

Turtle	Location	Adventure	Use
ancient turtle shell	The Limerick Dungeon (Requires using wandering monsters)	Nantucket Snapper	ancient turtle shell helmet ancient turtle shell powder
ballast turtle	All underwater zones (The Sea, The Sunken Party Yacht) (Limit of 3 per day)	Silent Strolling	Oxygenated Blood (20 Adv)
blue shell	The Inexplicable Door (a.k.a. 8-Bit Realm)	Blue Monday	blue pixel (1-3) white pixel (1-3)
bottlecap turtle	A Battlefield	Capital!	bubblewrap bottlecap turtleban
box turtle	The "Fun" House	Boxed In	cardboard box turtle
boxcar turtle	All Hobopolis zones (The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground, Burnbarrel Blvd., Exposure Esplanade, The Heap, Hobopolis Town Square, A Maze of Sewer Tunnels, The Purple Light District)	Training Day	several other tamed turtles or 10 of a random item
dueling turtle	Whitey's Grove	Duel Nature	dueling banjo
frozen turtle shell	The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky (Ground Floor)	Slow Food	Back Item
furry green turtle	The Degrassi Knoll (Hostile) (Restroom, Bakery, Gym, and Garage)	A Rolling Turtle Gathers No Moss	furry green earmuffs
grinning turtle	Orcish Frat House	The Horror...	Familiar
gummi turtle	Dreadsylvanian Village, Dreadsylvanian Castle, The Hallowed Halls, Art Class, The Ruined Wizard Tower, The Weird Swamp Village, The Haunted Kitchen, The Haunted Library, An Illicit Bohemian Party, The Haunted Billiards Room, The Thinknerd Warehouse, Domed City of Ronaldus, Domed City of Grimacia, Hamburglaris Shield Generator, The Fun-Guy Mansion, Sloppy Seconds Diner, The Hidden Temple, The Stately Pleasure Dome, The Mouldering Mansion, The Rogue Windmill	Even Tamer Than Usual	Gummi-Grin (+1 Muscle Stats per Fight)
hedgeturtle	Great Trip, The Oasis, The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert, Neckback Crick, A Mob of Zeppelin Protesters, Inside the Palindome, The Poop Deck, The Hidden Park, The Junkyard (Post-War), McMillicancuddy's Farm, McMillicancuddy's Back 40, McMillicancuddy's Barn, McMillicancuddy's Other Back 40, Sonofa Beach, The Themthar Hills, The Battlefield (Hippy Uniform)	Don't Be Alarmed, Now	spiky turtle helmet spiky turtle shield spiky turtle shoulderpads
ingot turtle	The Haunted Boiler Room	Slow Road to Hell	Combat Item
knobby helmet turtle	Outskirts of Cobb's Knob	C'mere, Little Fella	knobby kneepads
mocking turtle	The Slime Tube, The Defiled Nook, The Defiled Cranny, The Defiled Niche, The Defiled Alcove, The Enormous Greater-Than Sign, The Dungeons of Doom, Cobb's Knob Barracks, Cobb's Knob Laboratory, The Knob Shaft, Itznotyerzitz Mine, Menagerie Level 1, Menagerie Level 2, Menagerie Level 3	More Like... Hurtle	Tortious (+10 Monster Level)
musk turtle	The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky (Basement), The Upper Chamber, The Middle Chamber, The Nemesis' Lair	Musk! Musk! Musk!	High Colognic (+5% Combat Frequency)
oil shell	Oil Peak	The Real Victims	Back Item
padded tortoise	Barrrney's Barrr	Like That Time in Tortuga	Shield
painted turtle	The Haunted Gallery	Cleansing your Palette	painted shield
pillow shell	Cobb's Knob Harem	Harem Scarum	Back Item
samurai turtle	The Haiku Dungeon	Turtle in peril	samurai turtle helmet
sewer turtle	The Sleazy Back Alley	No Man, No Hole	sebaceous shield
shellacked shell	A Barroom Brawl	Slow and Steady Wins the Brawl	Back Item
shocked shell	The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky (Top Floor)	Stormy Weather	Back Item
skeletortoise	The Haunted Conservatory	Turtles of the Universe	reinforced furry underpants
sleeping wereturtle	The Spooky Forest	O Turtle Were Art Thou	Familiar
snailmail bits (2-4)	The Outer Compound	Allow 6-8 Weeks For Delivery	snailmail coif snailmail breeches snailmail hauberk
soup turtle	The Haunted Pantry	Kick the Can	soup-chucks
syncopated turtle	The Hippy Camp	Turtles All The Way Around	Familiar
tortoboggan	The eXtreme Slope	More eXtreme Than Usual	tortoboggan shield
turtlemail bits (3-5)	The Haunted Bathroom, The Haunted Bedroom, The Haunted Ballroom, The Haunted Laboratory, The Haunted Nursery, The Haunted Storage Room, Lair of the Ninja Snowmen, The Laugh Floor, Infernal Rackets Backstage	Never Break the Chain	turtlemail coif turtlemail breeches turtlemail hauberk
torquoise	South of The Border	Jewel in the Rough	torquoise ring
turtle-shaped rock	Bad Trip, Dreadsylvanian Woods, Tower Ruins, The Edge of the Swamp, The Dark and Spooky Swamp, The Corpse Bog, The Wildlife Sanctuarrrrrgh, Swamp Beaver Territory, Outskirts of Camp Logging Camp, The Red Queen's Garden, The Black Forest, The Glacier of Jerks, The Old Landfill, Anger Man's Level, Fear Man's Level, Doubt Man's Level, Regret Man's Level, A Deserted Stretch of I-911	This Turtle Rocks!	Combat Item
turtle wax	The Bat Hole Entrance, The Batrat and Ratbat Burrow, The Beanbat Chamber, The Boss Bat's Lair, The Daily Dungeon, Cobb's Knob Kitchens, Cobb's Knob Treasury, Noob Cave, The Dire Warren, A Large Chamber	Puttin' it on Wax	turtle wax shield turtle wax helmet turtle wax greaves
whatsit-covered turtle shell	Guano Junction	The worst kind of drowning	Back Item

Some zones contain two possible Turtle Taming adventures:

Turtle	Location	Adventure	Use
giraffe-necked turtle	The Dark Neck of the Woods, The Dark Heart of the Woods, The Dark Elbow of the Woods, Pandamonium Slums, The Road to White Citadel, The Smut Orc Logging Camp, A-boo Peak, Twin Peak, The Valley of Rof L'm Fao, The Goatlet, The Icy Peak, The Misspelled Cemetary (Post-Cyrpt), The Penultimate Fantasy Airship, The Hole in the Sky, The Orcish Frat House (Bombed Back to the Stone Age), The Hippy Camp (Bombed Back to the Stone Age), The Obligatory Pirate's Cove, The F'c'le, Camp Logging Camp, Mediocre Trip, The Landscaper's Lair, The Electric Lemonade Acid Parade, The Clumsiness Grove, The Maelstrom of Lovers	Really Sticking Her Neck Out	Adorable Lookout (+30% Combat Initiative)
irradiated turtle		It Came from Beneath the Sewer? Great!	Turtle Power (Regenerate 4-5 MP per Adventure)
cigar box turtle	Belowdecks, The Copperhead Club, The Red Zeppelin, The Haunted Laundry Room, The Haunted Wine Cellar, The Hidden Apartment Building, The Hidden Hospital, The Hidden Office Building, The Hidden Bowling Alley, Seaside Megalopolis, McMillicancuddy's Barn, The Tower of Procedurally-Generated Skeletons	Close, but Yes Cigar	Colorful Gratitude (+5 Prismatic Damage)
programmable turtle		Armchair Quarterback	Spiro Gyro (+2 All Resistance

Notes

• Finding a turtle does not consume an adventure.
• Clover Adventures do not override taming, but some Wandering monsters may.

History

• Turtle Taming was revamped on July 15, 2014. Previously, Eau de Tortue was required to encounter the Turtle Taming adventures, which gave a Turtle Taming adventure at a random time. Some turtles also required a turtling rod to tame, and some also required a Grinning Turtle or Syncopated Turtle as their active familiar as well. New turtles were also added in the revamp. See Turtle Taming/Old for more information.