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[Micro102]

I bought some turtles, some of them were eaten, have my only refuse stockpile indoors, yet no shells are showing up. I also cannot find them on the stocks menu.

[rodya_mirov]

Shells only appear when you

(a) process raw, unprocessed turtles, or
(b) eat raw, unprocessed turtles

If you buy turtles, you are buying them preprocessed, so their shells have already been removed.  Frustratingly, the only way to get shells is to catch turtles yourself or modify the raws.

[pushy]

Shells only appear when you

(a) process raw, unprocessed turtles, or
(b) eat raw, unprocessed turtles

If you buy turtles, you are buying them preprocessed, so their shells have already been removed.  Frustratingly, the only way to get shells is to catch turtles yourself or modify the raws.

Wasn't this changed recently so that (b) no longer happened?
As far as I was aware, for the past few versions (31.04 and up) you must clean a raw turtle to acquire a shell - a dwarf eating a raw turtle will no longer produce a shell, and all turtles purchased from caravans or brought on embark have already been prepared and will also not provide you with a shell.

[Micro102]

Wait, I recall in captduck's videos that now you cannot catch turtles either. Does that mean that shells can now only be gotten form the underground?

[cdrcjsn]

You can catch turtles.  It's just that some regions don't have any.

But my fisherdwarf has been catching nothing but turtles from murky pools.

[Micro102]

Ok and where can I find these shells in the stocks menu?

[opsneakie]

Most regions have turtles or mussels (which I've been finding plenty of in brooks and pools). If you have any kind of water on your map you should have little or no difficulty acquiring shells.

[grufti]

Most regions have turtles or mussels (which I've been finding plenty of in brooks and pools). If you have any kind of water on your map you should have little or no difficulty acquiring shells.

Not in every region.

Do you generate island worlds or region worlds?

[MC Hammerbeard]

I imagine you can edit the raws to make turtles [COMMON_DOMESTIC] and [PET], and thus embark with a few turtles for breeding stock.

If not directly, then there are a couple of mods you could cherry pick tortoises from, Genesis comes to mind.

[Psieye]

Turtles are vermin-sized, so you can't do that. What you want is something like the pet crabs in CivForge mod - a domestic animal that happens to give shells.

[SenorPiquante]

I modded cats to give shells, there's instructions in the Shells page on the wiki. It may have had unforeseen consequences, as now I've got a few "cat brain totems" in my craft stockpile. Armok only knows what the neighbours thought of THAT one...

[buzz killington]

I modded cats to give shells, there's instructions in the Shells page on the wiki. It may have had unforeseen consequences, as now I've got a few "cat brain totems" in my craft stockpile. Armok only knows what the neighbours thought of THAT one...

I would consider it a superior class of dwarven civilization.

[opsneakie]

Most regions have turtles or mussels (which I've been finding plenty of in brooks and pools). If you have any kind of water on your map you should have little or no difficulty acquiring shells.

Not in every region.

Do you generate island worlds or region worlds?

I always generate regions instead of islands, as in my experience they have fewer of the dreaded aquifers. Since upgrading to 31.06 I've had trouble with too many shells, rather than not enough.

[Daetrin]

...I still have yet to generate a world with turtles.  I really have no idea why.  Even using complete stock worldgen parameters I get no turtles.

Edit: On a whim I switched away from Phoebus' prepackaged tileset and suddenly things started working.  I'm not sure if it's coincidence or I somehow screwed up that particular version of DF.