Turtacle

Turtacle #37

WaterOtherAlpha available
Best Work
Watering 2
Rarity
3
Size
Medium
Methodology
Data Methodology

To protect its fragile body, it developed an incredibly tough shell. Unfortunately, it's utterly defenseless underneath. Even a little tickle could knock it out cold.

Turtacle Stats

  • HP7520th percentile
  • Melee Attack10055th percentile
  • Ranged Attack7516th percentile
  • Defense11584th percentile
  • Support10050th percentile
  • Work Speed10050th percentile
  • Stamina10034th percentile
  • Food Consumption331th percentile

Turtacle has an even base stat spread in Palworld: 75 HP, 100 attack and 115 defense all sit close to the middle of the Paldex, with no stat far enough from average to build around. Its damage is melee-weighted — 100 melee attack against 75 ranged — so Turtacle does its best work up close and loses value the further away the fight happens. Defense is its best stat at 115, in the 84th percentile of all Pals — a real strength rather than a rounding difference. The obvious hole is Ranged Attack at 75, in the bottom 16% of the Paldex, so pair Turtacle with a partner or a passive skill that covers it before taking it into a tower boss fight.

Elementally, Turtacle is Water: it takes extra damage from Electric attacks and deals extra damage to Fire Pals — the matchup that decides most of its Alpha and tower fights.

Turtacle Work Suitability

Turtacle covers 3 of the game's 12 work suitabilities — Watering, Mining and Transporting — and Watering at level 2 is the one worth assigning it to. That ranks Turtacle #19 of the 46 Pals with Watering, so it will do the job, but it is not the Pal you keep the station for.

Every one of those levels sits at 2 or below, so Turtacle pays for itself in the field, as a mount or a combat partner, rather than at a base station.

Turtacle Movement Speeds

  • Walk Speed150
  • Run Speed320
  • Ride Sprint500
  • Transport Speed190
  • Swim Speed320

Turtacle Moves & Learnset

LvMoveElementPowerCooldown
1Hydro JetWater402s
7Bubble BlastWater804s
15Hydro SpinWater1608s
22Aqua BurstWater20012s
30Torrential BlastWater25012s
40Hydro SlicerWater35016s
50Hydro LaserWater45020s
70Geyser GushWater60030s

Breeding Turtacle

  • Combinations148
  • Combi rank2410

Any of the 148 parent pairs below hatches into Turtacle. These are the cheapest of them — they use the lowest-rarity parents, so they are the quickest to gather.

Turtacle Drops

MetaBot Desktop

Breed Turtacle in the fewest steps

The Breeding Lab in MetaBot Desktop pairs any two Pals, reverse-looks-up every way to breed a target, and plans the full path from the Pals you already own.

  • Pair parents or reverse lookup
  • Path planner from Pals you own
  • Skips Pals you already have
The Palworld Breeding Lab in MetaBot Desktop

Where to Find Turtacle

Turtacle is found on the Palpagos Islands map, where the game data places 148 separate spawn points for it. Most of them — 91% — sit in the Grasslands, and the rest turn up in the Volcanic Region. They are scattered rather than clustered, though the east of the map around X -316k, Y 189k is still the busiest patch.

Wild Turtacle spawn between level 5 and level 39, so the ones you meet late in a run hit noticeably harder than the first you catch. Beyond open-world spawns, Turtacle also turns up in dungeon boss rooms and dungeons.

Palpagos Islands
Turtacle spawn locations plotted on the Palworld Palpagos Islands map
Spawn densityX -316k, Y 189k
  • Grasslands91%
  • Volcanic Region3%
  • Spawn points148
  • Level rangeLv 5–39
  • ActiveDay & night
  • MapPalpagos Islands
  • Main regionGrasslands
  • Dungeon boss spawns60 points · Lv 22–25
  • Wild spawns58 points · Lv 10–39
  • Dungeon spawns30 points · Lv 5–10

Turtacle Variants

  • Alpha — HP 90

Turtacle is a Water Pal of the Other genus and Medium size. Its standout stat is Defense at 115, putting it in the 84th percentile of all Pals. Turtacle works best at Watering level 2, ranking #19 of 46 Pals with that job. It can be bred from 148 different parent pairs. Defeating or capturing it yields Aquatic Pal Fluids, Bone. It appears at 148 spawn locations between levels 5 and 39, most of them in the Grasslands.

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Turtacle FAQ

Is Turtacle good in Palworld?

Turtacle's strongest stat is Defense, in the 84th percentile of all Pals, and its best job is Watering.

What is Turtacle's best work suitability?

Turtacle has Watering at level 2, which ranks #19 of 46 Pals that can do that job.

How do you breed Turtacle?

Turtacle can be bred from 148 parent combinations. The cheapest is Smokie + Lamball.

Where does Turtacle spawn?

Turtacle appears at 148 spawn locations on Palpagos Islands, at levels 5 to 39. The densest concentration is in the Grasslands — the habitat map above plots every one of them.

What does Turtacle drop?

Turtacle drops Aquatic Pal Fluids, Bone.

Is Turtacle a good mount?

Turtacle has a ride sprint speed of 500, in the 13th percentile of all Pals.