Slime Rancher: Catching Slimes and Selling Their Poop

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Slimes. When I hear them, it reminds me of the monster in RPGs. Those gooey, gelatinous creatures that can attack your character when you encounter one. Slimes come in different colors depending on the elemental attributes. They can look scary or ugly and quite hostile. But not all slimes are bad. You can actually keep them in a ranch and adore their cuteness.

Credits to the website of Slime Rancher

Slime Rancher is a single-player PC game that lets you collect slimes, take care of them like feeding them, and then take their poop and sell it. Yes, you need their poop to make a living. The slimes' poop are called plorts. You need plorts to gain money and use the money to have upgrades.

I knew about Slime Rancher from a YouTuber, MattShea. When I first saw it, I automatically thought of the monster from Ragnarok Online, a Poring. I wanted to play it so I asked my boyfriend to download it for me. When he has it in his laptop he went to me and let me play it.

I love the graphics of this game. Quite vivid, even though the setting was on its lowest(because the laptop can't handle high graphics settings, it causes too much lag). The sceneries of the game are so pretty whenever I go to a different area. Though it is said that the game takes place in a different planet, it feels like it's in Earth, except that it has slimes and the chickens, fruits, and veggies are of different species.

You use a contraption called a vacpack to collect slimes, chickens, fruits, veggies and any other items by sucking them all up and store them in the tank. Its quite handy, but you can only hold up to four items and hold up to 20 units per item (unless you upgrade it). So if you encounter an important item but your tank is already full in all slots, you have to sacrifice a least important item to have that important item. It's an opportunity cost, as my professor from Economics would say. Vacpacks can be used to hold objects that are too big like boxes and largo slimes (I'll talk about largo slimes a bit later.)

When you go out of your ranch, the first thing you see are the Pink Slimes. These are the slimes that reminded me of Porings and I was rather cutified by their roundness and bounciness. These are like the starter slimes. I took about five slimes because their corral is still small. These little things can eat anything so you can just throw in any food you have. Once they have eaten, they poop out Pink plorts. Since it's from a starter slime, the value of the Pink plorts is rather small.

The cute Pink Slime

I used the vacpack to collect the plorts and sell them to the Plort Market. It's like a stock market because the value of each type of plort can increase or decrease everyday.

 Selling my plorts to the Plort Market

After I sold all of my plorts, I went out to explore further. Then, I discovered the Tabby slime, a gray cat slime with cat ears and a tail. The moment that I saw it, I sucked it up and went out to find more. I collected five and went back to the ranch. I used the money that I got from selling plorts to buy another corral for the Tabby slimes. These slimes can only eat meat so I collected chickens from the outside and fed it to them. They pooped out gray plorts or Tabby plorts. It turns out that they cost more than the Pink ones so I immediately sold them. The Tabby slimes are probably my favorite slimes, cause you know, cats.

A couple of Tabby slimes

There are other more types of slimes to discover, like the rock slime, phosphor slimes (slimes that spawn at night), honey slimes, boom slimes and more. Though some of them can only be seen in a different area that needs to be unlocked. Their plorts have different values, some are more valuable than others.

From what I learned from MattShea, you can have two types of slimes in one by having them eat plorts. I tried combining my Pink slimes and Tabby slimes by feeding my Pink slimes with Tabby plorts. Then, they turned into Pink Tabby Largo slimes. Largo slimes are the combination of two slimes by one slime eating a different slime's plort. They are bigger than normal slimes and you can't put them in the tank of vacpack. Their diet depends on what the two slimes like to eat. For example, one slime likes to eat veggies and the other likes meat, but when they turn to Largo slimes, they like to eat both veggies and meats. When you feed them, they poop out two types of plorts which also depends on which slime ate which slime's plort.

 My jumpy Pink Tabby largo slimes

So, I have five slimes poop out two types of plorts. I am probably making lots of money. With the money, I can buy upgrades for the corral and vacpack, and buy more facilities. These upgrades improve the corrals and makes my slimes happy. I can also upgrade my character like increase stamina and HP. I have bought high walls for the corral so that they won't jump out to escape, a plort collector to collect plorts in corrals, and bought a chicken coop to raise chickens and a garden to harvest veggies and fruits. It's kinda like Harvest Moon except you don't need to feed the chickens and water the plants. You can also use the money to expand your ranch to put in more facilities.

Though you need to be careful with largo slimes. If they eat something that they shouldn't be eating, they turn to Tarr. Tarr are black scary slimes that eat other slimes. They can't be kept in ranches because they are bad slimes, and you can only hold them with the vacpack. They also appear at night and normal slimes can turn to Tarr if they are too hungry. You can fight these Tarr by shooting them with water or use the vacpack to shoot them to the ocean.

Tarr

Well, to wrap it all up, Slime Rancher became my current favorite game to play. It's fun and addictive and I could play for hours. I probably left out a lot of info but I recommend you play Slime Rancher to really know the whole gameplay. Though it's still in the beta phase so watch out for any updates.

I hope you enjoyed reading, and I'll write again soon.