Overview
Having trouble keeping certain slimes? Want to know how to bring out the full potential of your ranch? This guide will explain every slime so far, and give my personal tips on how to keep them.
Introduction
Welcome to the Slimedex! It’s a guide that will explain every type of slime. That includes: the slime’s diet, where it can be found, and the best ways to keep it. Before we begin, however, it’s important that you know about the most useful tool in keeping slimes: a corral. These can be purchased in the small plots of land around the ranch, and basically serve as a cage to hold slimes. So with that business out of the way, let’s begin the guide!
Pink slimes
Pink slimes are the most basic of all. They’re the first slimes you’ll see in the game, and by far the easiest to keep. Their diet consists of anything they can fit inside their mouths, whether that’s a fruit, vegetable, or delicious chicken. They can be found literally everywhere possible, and appear in abundance, so there’s never a shortage of them. Now, in terms of how to keep them, all you need is a corral and you’re ready to go! Of course, you’ll need to compensate for how many you have in the corral; if you have lots in there, you should upgrade your corral with high walls or an air net so they don’t escape. I feed mine carrots or pogofruit, as those are the easiest types of food to get in the game, and pink slimes will eat anything (just behind me in the picture, I have a carrot farm for pink slimes only). The plorts pink slimes produce are very cheap, so pink slimes should only be farmed for starting money, or in large numbers.
Rock slimes
The slime you’re likely to find straight after pink slimes is the rock slime. They have a distinctive appearance, with rocks poking out of their head, and with a dark blue colour (they’re my favourite looking slimes!). They can be found in two places: the first is the area with a large pogofruit tree in the middle, and the second is the area just before the bridges over the slime sea. While they are slightly less common than the pink slime, they are still somewhat easy to come across. They only eat vegetables, but this is easy to deal with, as carrots can be found in abundance throughout the game. I, however, feed mine heart beets, which are their favourite food (when a slime eats its favourite food, it produces two plorts rather than one, so double the money!). Keeping them is pretty much the same as keeping pink slimes; put them in a corral with upgrades to suit the amount. It is important to note that rock slimes deal damage on contact, so it’s extra-important to prevent escape. You can use an auto-feeder to make sure you don’t have to get inside the corral to give them food, but I don’t, and still live to this day. A rock slime’s plorts are more valuable than a pink slime’s, but are still fairly cheap. However, they are still a useful asset to any ranch.
Tabby slimes
Tabby slimes definitely have the most unque look of any slime, with triangle ears, a wiggly tail, and grey stripes across their body. They’re quite common, too, and can be found in the same places as rock slimes as well as all over the Moss Blanket, jumping out of bushes anywhere. They have a diet of only meat, which can make them quite difficult to farm at the start of a game, when chickens are harder to get. However, chickens can be easily acquired by buying the “Overgrowth” ranch expansion, as chickens regularly spawn there. Their favourite food is the stony hen, which is a more uncommon kind of chicken. When it comes to keeping them, even with just one slime, I recommend having high walls for your corral, as tabby slimes are particularly bouncy, and can quite easily clear a low wall. They can be quite a nuisance outside of a corral, as they like to pick up items that they don’t eat and run off with them, so it’s important to keep them in their corral. Their plorts are actually quite valuable, especially at the beginning of the game, so I would advise keeping a few at all times (and also because they’re really cute).
Phosphor slimes
Phophor slimes are another kind that I love the appearance of. They have jiggly antennae on the forehead, a pair of transparent wings, and a body with a soft, warming glow. They can only be found at night, which makes them slightly more difficult to find compared to other slimes, although when sun sets, they can be found almost everywhere on the Range. They’re easy to spot, too, with they’re glowing bodies, and the fact that they can fly. They have a diet of fruit, so they can be easily fed with the common pogofruit. Their favourite food, however, is the cuberry, which is less common but just as easy to grow at home. As they can fly, a corral containing them must have high walls and an air net to stop them going over the roof. Phosphor slimes cannot survive in daylight, and, without proper protection, you could lose an entire corral’s worth of them in minutes. To prevent this, you should upgrade your corral to have solar shielding, or you can keep them in the Grotto, which is naturally dark. In fact, I keep some hybrid phosphor slimes free-range inside the Grotto, although we’ll get onto hybrids later in the guide. Their plorts are about as valuable as tabby plorts, so they’re worth keeping around, even if it is slightly expensive to contain them.
Boom slimes
Boom slimes are difficult to keep, and I only recommend you do so if you have lots of money and experience. They have a simple appearance, as they glow red with yellow cracks over their body. They can be found almost anywhere in the Moss Blanket, and they spawn quite commonly, so capturing them isn’t hard. Their diet consists of meat (refer to the tabby slime section for info on how to get chickens), and their favourite type of food is the briar hen, also found quite easily in the Moss Blanket. Keeping them is actually quite difficult, however. You see, the boom slime’s main trait is that it can and will explode, blasting anything near it far, far away. As you can probably tell, this can make containing them very annoying. For your corral, high walls and an air net are a must, as they will otherwise blast each other outside of the corral. Also, as the air net has to recharge after too many hits, you should only keep a small amount of boom slimes in a corral at once (about 15-20). I also highly recommend upgrading their corral to have a plort collector and auto-feeder, as going inside a boom slime corral is pretty much a death sentence. However, I still recommend keeping them on your ranch, as their plorts are very valuable, making keeping them worth the risk.
Puddle slimes
Puddle slimes are a very valuable asset to a ranch, but only if you know how to keep them. They can only be found in the Moss Blanket, and live in the ponds and streams there, but never on land. They are quite rare, and, going through the entire Moss Blanket once, you will probably only find two or three. They have a unique diet to any other slime, as they feed on water. The only way you can keep them is by putting them inside a pond on your ranch. If they or their plorts leave water, they will quickly evaporate, never to be seen again. Also, their plorts will burst on contact with anything, so you can’t make any puddle slime hybrids. However, that’s all you need; a pond to keep them in. As they drink water to produce plorts, you don’t even have to go and feed them to get their plorts; they produce them themselves. Of course, when they drink water, the amount of water in the pond will decrease (but only by an extremely insignificant amount). The unforunate thing about puddle slimes is that they are very shy. As of version 0.3.0, puddle slimes won’t produce plorts if there are more than three slimes near them, even if they’re in water. However, puddle plorts are very valuable, and as puddle slimes are so easy to keep, I highly recommend keeping them on your ranch.
Honey slimes
Honey slimes are easy to pick out of a crowd, with a beautiful golden colour and three honeycomb shapes on their forehead. Like boom and tabby slimes, they can be found pretty much anywhere in the Moss Blanket, and spawn quite commonly. They have a diet of fruit, but their favourite is the mint mango, an uncommon fruit also found in the Moss Blanket. There’s not much to say about keeping them, as you do so the exact same way as you’d keep pink slimes. I, however, keep mine free-range in the Overgrowth, with two pogofruit trees to keep them satisfied. But this is not required; keeping them in a corral will yield just as many plorts as keeping them outdoors. The only real danger they pose is in their plorts; other slimes find them delicious, and will try extra hard to get to them, so it’s important to make sure you contain their plorts somewhere, or keep the slimes on their own, as I do. Their plorts are very valuable, and as honey slimes are extremely easy to keep, I suggest you keep a large amount of them on your ranch.
Rad Slimes
Rad slimes don’t get their name from being radical. It comes from the awesome fact that they’re radioactive. You can see a rad slime from any distance, since they have a large, glowing green aura around them that sets them apart from other slimes. They can be found in the Indigo Quarry, but only in what I would call the second half of it. Their favourite food is the Oca Oca, a potato-like vegetable that’s also exclusive to the Indigo Quarry. Now, the rad slimes’ aura may look cool, but it poses quite a large threat to ranchers. If you stand inside the aura, you’ll see a radiation meter (similar to your health bar) slowly fill up, until it reaches 100. Once it gets there, you’ll start taking damage. This effect stacks, too, so the more auras you’re inside, the quicker the meter fills. When it comes to keeping them, the size of the corral still depends on how many slimes are in there, as they have the same behaviour as pink slimes. The corral will, however, need a plort collector, as going in the corral to collect them yourself will almost certainly result in pain. Rad slimes are worth keeping around though, as their plorts are very valuable (and rad hybrids look great!). Just remember to keep a good distance from them and you should be fine.
Crystal Slimes
The crystal slime is a species that looks very similar to the rock slime, although it is much shinier and brighter, and in my opinion, looks better than the classic rock slime. It can be found in a very specific place in the Indigo Quarry that I’ll now attempt to describe the location of. Basically, when you enter the Indigo Quarry, look for the section where you can find some puddle slimes in a shallow pool. Then, use your jetpack to rise to the cliffs to the right of this pool. If you look around there should be a cave entrance nearby, and if you enter it, you’ll arrive at the volcano, in which crystal slimes can be found. Now, back to the slimes! The crystal slime is fairly similar to the rock slime, it can roll up into a ball and deals damage if you touch it. However, it also has another feature that makes it extra dangerous. The crystal slime is able to make sharp, pointy crystals rise out of the ground around it, which will deal damage if you step on them. For this reason, a corral with high walls and an automatic plort collector are recommended, simply to ensure you don’t have to enter the corral. A crystal slimes’ favourite food is the odd onion, which is different to other vegetables. The odd onion, instead of having its own patches, can be found in other various patches of vegetables, but only in the Indigo Quarry. Even if you try to farm it, you’ll only harvest a few onions along with many carrots. This makes it quite difficult to always give them their favourite food, so making a crystal slime hybrid could be a good idea. However, I would definitely recommend keeping crystal slimes on your farm, as they have quite valuable plorts and are relatively easy to keep.
Hunter Slimes
The hunter slime is a pretty cool-looking one in my opinion. They’re brown in colour with a black stripe that goes down their body, with large, yellow eyes, and a brisly tail. They can be found in the Moss Blanket, and will spawn anywhere, but much more rarely than other slimes (except golden and lucky slimes, of course). You can expect to see one or two lucky slimes if you run through the entire Moss Blanket if you’re lucky, but I’ve personally had many times where I go the entire route and find none. What makes it even more difficult to find hunter slimes is their special ability to camoflauge themselves. The camoflauge makes them invisible but slightly blurry, and you can still see their large eyes while they’re invisible (you can see a camoflauged hunter in the bottom right of my picture). This means that if you’re going very fast or simply not paying enough attention, you could easily walk right pass a hunter slime without noticing it. If you do manage to catch one, though, then you’ll find keeping them very similar to keeping tabby slimes. As with tabbys, you’ll probably want high walls and maybe an air net to ensure they can’t escape their enclosure. Hunter slimes also have a unique and potentially dangerous feature. Upon creating a hunter slime hybrid with any other species, the hybrid will become feral and attack you. To counter this, simply always have food with you when you create hunter hybrids, and avoid letting hunter slimes roam free with other species. A hunter slimes favourite food is a roostro, meaning that it can be difficult to feed them their favourite all the time. You might want to create hunter hybrids to counterract this. In terms of plorts, hunter plorts are very valuable, so I would certainly recommend keeping them (as long as you can find them), since they’re quite cheap and valuable.
Quantum Slimes
Quantum slimes are a strange-looking species that can be found commonly in the Ancient Ruins area. They’re yellow with swirls in their bodies, and they’ll occasionally seem to distort like a TV screen. And as well as their strange appearance, they certainly have some strange behaviour which makes them one of the hardest slimes to ranch in the game! In the picture, you can see a distorted slime-looking thing floating through the air. This is a projected image that the quantum slime has created and sent off. These images can be very confusing as it may seem like there is a slime when there really isn’t. Quantum slimes have the annoying ability to also teleport to their images, meaning they can escape any corral with complete ease. For this reason, I like to keep my quantum slimes free-range on my ranch, with farms that they can eat from. Luckily, quantum slimes will never teleport into another corral, but they’re still a nuisance! The quantum slime has a diet of fruit, and their favourite fruit is the Phase lemon, which is also difficult to get. This is because to get a Phase lemon, you must shoot another fruit at a tree that a lemon is hanging from. This means you have to trade fruit to get one lemon, as the other fruit you fire will disappear. I personally recommend making your quantum slimes into largos so you can feed them a different food as their favourite. Their plorts are quite expensive, but you should only keep them if you know how to deal with them as they can be a real pain to ranch!
Dervish Slimes
The dervish slime is a species that can be found in the Glass Desert, an area which can only be accessed via a portal at the end of the Ancient Ruins. It is purple in colour, with a ring that constantly spins around it, and this ring goes on any largo you make with dervish slimes, which can end up looking pretty cool! The dervish slime can be a nuisance if you don’t know what they can do, but aren’t too difficult to keep. Dervish slimes have the ability to create a tornado underneath themselves, which will make them travel very fast. This isn’t a problem if you have them in a corral with high walls, as they won’t be able to get over them. The real problem comes if you have hungry dervish slimes. As you can see in the picture, the dervish slime has created a huge tornado which will go all over the place, picking up and dropping anything it comes over. This can cause absolute havoc on your ranch, so I highly recommend using an auto-feeder to ensure your dervish slimes never get agitated. Having a music box in their corral will also reduce their agitation. Dervish slimes live on a diet of fruit, and their favourite food is the Prickle Pear, which can be found on trees in the Glass Desert and grown on your ranch. Dervish plorts are worth quite a bit, and considering that they’re somewhat easy to keep, I definitely recommend having them.
Fire Slimes
Fire slimes are like the confident cousins of puddle slimes. They have a similar shape and similar requirements, but look pretty hot if you know what I mean. Fire slimes can be found in the Glass Desert. They can uncommonly spawn out in the wild, or, more commonly, they’ll appear during the firestorms that occasionally take place in the desert. Like puddle slimes, fire slimes will disappear if left out in the open for too long, so vac them up quickly before they go! To ranch fire slimes, you’ll need to keep them sitting in ash. Buying an incinerator and getting the ash trough upgrade will get you a pool of ash to let your fire slimes sit in. Like puddle slimes, they’ll produce plorts simply from sitting in ash, as that’s their favourite food. Unlike puddle slimes, though, they use up the ash eventually. To refill the ash trough, simply throw food at the incinerator and it will fill up. It doesn’t take too much food to fill it, so they aren’t too hard to feed. The only real danger with fire slimes is the fact that touching them will damage you and other slimes that touch them, but this isn’t much of a problem, and splashing them with water will remove their fire for a period of time. Fire plorts sell for a decent amount of money, but aren’t that valuable. However, I would still recommend having them as they are easy to keep.
Tangle Slimes
The tangle slime is green in colour with a beautiful yellow flower above its head. They can be found in various oases in the Glass Desert, although I won’t spoil how to open the oases here if you haven’t already! Tangle slimes, while they don’t pose a direct threat to the rancher, have an ability that can make them rather annoying. Basically, tangle slimes, as you can see in the picture, can use vines to pick up food and bring it straight to themselves. They can do this from quite a distance which can make them a pain – if you put them to close to a chicken coop or another slime corral, they’ll be able to snatch chickens from inside their corral, or even worse, they can steal plorts and create unintended largos or tarr! The pollen from their flowers will also make other slimes go into a sneezing fit and get very agitated, which can lead to a whole bunch of other annoying effects. For this reason, it’s important to place your tangle slimes in a corral far away from other slimes or chicken coops. I personally keep my tangle slimes free-range in the Overgrowth section of the ranch, so they have free access to chickens. So as you probably know by now, the tangle slime eats meat. Its favourite food is the painted hen, a type of chicken only found in the Glass Desert. Their plorts are pretty valuable, so despite the hassle that they can be, I would recommend having these slimes in your ranch as the reward is worth it.
Mosaic Slimes
Mosaic slimes have been one of my favourite looking slimes in the game since they were introduced. They have a beautiful metallic-looking shell on their outside, which glimmers in many colours. Like tangle slimes, mosaic slimes can be found in oases in the Glass Desert in various places. Mosaic slimes can be somewhat dangerous, but when contained in a corral they aren’t too hard to keep. Mosaic slimes have two different abilities that can make them potentially difficult to keep. Firstly, as you can see in the picture, they make multicoloured glimmers in the air. The only problem with these is that other slimes are very attracted to them, but as long as your mosaics are protected in a corral this is not a problem. The second, more dangerous ability is that mosaic slimes can create a purple glimmer in the air which will slowly float to the ground. When it hits the floor, it will burst into flames which can damage a rancher. Shooting them with water will get rid of them, but the best way to protect yourself is to simply stay away from them. Mosaic slimes have a diet of vegetables, with their favourite being the Silver Parsnip. This can be found growing in the Glass Desert, but is somewhat hard to find. Mosaic plorts are some of the most valuable in the game, so I definitely recommend keeping them, especially since they are not too hard to ranch.
Lucky Slimes
It’s not hard to walk right past a lucky slime, as they blend in very well with the tabby slime. In fact, they look exactly like a tabby slime, except for the fact that they’re a bit brighter, and have a coin on their forehead. The best way to notice them, however, is that they make a loud jingling sound which can help you locate them. Similar to gold slimes, they appear very rarely but can be found anywhere on the Range. They also can’t be captured, so there’s no replicating them. The way to profit off them is similar to any other slime, as you just have to feed them. Like tabby slimes, they will only eat meat, and like gold slimes, they dissapear quickly, so you should always have a chicken around in case you find one. When you feed them, they don’t produce plorts, like other slimes. Instead, they explode in a wondrous shower of coins, getting you a good profit. Unfortunately, they’ll blast into the air with that, never to be seen again. Overall, just make sure you always have a chicken handy, and try to be quick-thinking to get money from a lucky slime.
Gold slimes
(I couldn’t get any of my own pictures of a gold slime, so enjoy this lovely artwork of one.)
Gold slimes are the rarest kind in the game. They are rumored to have a 1/10000 chance of spawning, although they can spawn anywhere in the game. They eat almost nothing, so getting plorts off of them is done in a very unique way. To get their plorts, you simply fire things out of your vacpack and into it’s shiny face, and it will leave behind a shiny, golden plort. However, this is easier said than done, as a golden slime will disappear in seconds of spawning, so you have to be quick on your feet to profit from them. The only thing I can tell you as advice is not to panic, and always keep your vacpack full of items to chuck at it if you see one. You can’t catch them or put them on your ranch, as they simply won’t get sucked into your vacpack. Also, their plorts cannot be fed to any other slime, so you can’t replicate them through hybrids. Their plorts are by far the most valuable in the game, with a price that often exceeds 300. As of update 1.0.1, gold slimes now have a favourite (and only) food that they will eat – the gilded ginger. This shiny looking vegetable grows in the Glass Desert, however only a single gilded ginger will grow each day, and there are many places in which they grow, making them very difficult to get. Should you feed one to a gold slime, it will drop extra plorts. You can also put gilded ginger on a gordo trap to have a chance of finding a golden gordo!
Hybrid slimes
For an experienced rancher who knows what they’re doing, keeping hybrid slimes is a great way to make even more money out of ranching. A hybrid slime is created when you feed any slime a plort unlike the ones it creates. What the hybrid looks like is determined by what plort you fed to which slime, for example (as in the picture), feeding a pink plort to a phosphor slime creates a phosphor slime that is pink in colour. It also gains the feeding habits of the slime who’s plort it ate; a pink phosphor slime will eat anything, as that is a trait of the pink slime. A hybrid slime is also larger than a normal slime, meaning you can fit less of them into a corral. Hybrid slimes produce the plorts of both the original slime and the slime who’s plort was eaten, meaning you can get much more money by ranching them. However, they increase the threat of finding the final, most dangerous species…
The Tarr
The Tarr is certainly a unique-looking “slime”. It has a black body with various other colours swirling around inside, and a crooked, sadistic smile that just screams out “FEED ME”. The reason I call it a “slime” is because it technically isn’t one, but it is something that needs to be explained for the safety of one’s ranch. The Tarr comes about when a hybrid slime is fed a plort different to the ones it produces, which is why only an experienced rancher should farm hybrids. The Tarr has a diet of slimes, chickens, and you. As such, it is not only a danger to your ranch, but to you, too. When the Tarr eats another slime, it replicates, and so you have another Tarr on your hands. Then another. And another. And so on. Once they’re finished devouring all the slimes on your ranch, they’ll come for you, dealing 20 damage per hit. They are also very jumpy, and can easily break out of a corral even if it has an air net. To stop the Tarr in it’s sticky tracks, you can either use water or an incinerator. Blasting water at it will stop it from replicating, and eventually destroy it completely, whereas using an incinerator is an insta-kill. The Tarr is the biggest threat to any rancher, and can destroy hours of progress in seconds, so always keep slimes to themselves, and avoid crossing species too much.
Summary
Overall, the best slimes to ranch come from the endgame, in the Glass Desert. They’re difficult to keep but provide a lot of money for someone who knows how to ranch them. Remember to only farm hybrids if you have experience with the game, and always take extra precaution to avoid a Tarr outbreak. Also, always keep a stocked inventory when exploring in case you see a gold slime, and remember, DON’T PANIC. Most importantly, have lots of fun exploring the Far, Far Range and discovering new slimes! So, to end the Slimedex, I wish you all happy ranching!