Beginner’s Guide To Slime Rancher: Your First Few Days On The Ranch

If you’ve just opened Slime Rancher, where do you start? This guide will give you the basics.

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Slime Rancher is a farm simulation game with a very relaxed pace. You will explore the local area and collect different slimes, which you’ll then raise, feed, and care for on your ranch. Once fed, the slimes produce plorts, which can be sold for Newbucks, the game’s currency.

Over time you’ll expand and upgrade your ranch, allowing you to locate, capture and care for more unique slimes. These will in turn reward you with higher value plorts, speeding up your ranch upgrades. Before we get to that stage it’s a good idea to make sure you understand the basics of owning your very own Slime Ranch.

Finding Your First Slime: Capturing And Relocating Slimes

When you begin, you’ll have one corral in which to place slimes. The easiest ones to collect are pink slimes, which you’ll see around your ranch. The game’s tutorial will guide you through collecting the slimes and placing them in your corral by using your Vacpack. It will also show you how to collect and sell their plorts. This process is the foundation of the game.

Each slime has a different diet, which you can check in the slimepedia, but pink slimes will eat anything. This means that they are one of the easiest slimes to care for. Begin to explore the area around your ranch and you’ll find pogofruit, carrots, and chickens. Any of these can be fed to your pink slimes, by firing them into the corral.

Once you’ve got the hang of finding and relocating both slimes and food it’s time to take a look at how to care for your slimes.

Creating A Farm: Different Plot Buildings In Slime Rancher

You must keep your slimes fed regularly, so you’ll need a steady supply of food. You can continue to forage from the surrounding area but it does take time for food to grow which limits supplies. Once you start capturing more exotic slimes you’ll also soon discover that many of their favorite foods aren’t available within easy reach of the ranch.

The easiest way to produce a reliable supply of any type of food is to purchase a farm and coop.

At this point you will have noticed that the corral is on one of several square plots marked out on your ranch. When you click the small post which activates a plot on the ranch, you’ll notice that you can choose the type of area you want it to be. The options are as follows:

• Corral – Used to house slimes on the ranch
• Garden – Used to grow fruit and vegetables
• Coop – Used to house and breed hens
• Pond – Used to house water-based slimes
• Silo – Used to store resources
• Incinerator – Used to destroy unwanted items

We suggest adding a coop and farm to the two plots beside your house. This means you have a small regular supply of meat and either fruit or vegetables

The farm is simple to use. All you need to do is collect a vegetable or fruit and fire it into the post on the corner of the plot. Once this is done the plot will begin to grow the selected item. Carrots or cuberries are the easiest to find as both of these are close to the ranch. Fruit or vegetables will begin to grow again once the field has been emptied.

The coop just requires some hens and a rooster to breed. Again, you can collect these, but this time fire them directly into the coop. If you can’t find a rooster, don’t worry. There are baby chickens around the area, simply put them in with a couple of hens and some of them will grow into roosters. Extra chickens can be sucked up and fired into a corral, but remember to leave at least one rooster and a few hens to breed.

Tip: It’s quicker and easier to collect fruit or veg rather than hens so if your slimes will eat either then feeding them a vegetarian diet will save you some time.

Extra Slimes And Largos: Combining Slimes For Greater Profits

Pink slimes have very low-value plorts, so it’s a good idea to collect different slimes from the surrounding area. You’ll find rock slimes, which are blue and spiky, and tabby slimes, which look like kittens, close by. Both of these will give you reasonably high-value plorts. However, both slimes are trickier to manage.

Rock slimes can hurt you and tabby slimes only eat meat. While you can just feed tabbys with hens from your coop if you can’t keep up with demand there is another option, creating largo slimes.

How To Create Largo Slimes

If a pure slime (such as the pink slime) eats the plort of another slime (like the tabby and rock slimes) it will become a Largo, or large slime, taking on some of the characteristics of the slime whose plort it ate. This can include the diet of the other slime, meaning combining pink slimes with others can make them easier to feed. Largos will then give you two plorts, one of each type of slime they are made up of.

Having two or three corrals of either different slimes or Largos gives you a good starting supply of plorts, but you need to ensure you can keep them separate.

IMPORTANT: Do not put different Largos togetherIf a Largo eats a third type of plort, they will turn into a Tarr, which is a hostile slime that will consume other slimes and replicate. If you do get a Tarr in your ranch, you’ll need to find some water to dispatch it, quickly.

Safety First: Your First Farm Upgrades

Once you have the basics down you’ll need to start looking at upgrades to ensure the happiness and safety of your slimes. The higher wall corral upgrade is a must early in the game, especially once you have more than one type of slime on your ranch. This is because escaped slimes can cause huge issues including creating tarrs and eating your crops or chickens. Likewise, slimes going into different corrals can also create tarrs.

The auto-feeder is another helpful upgrade. Just keep it well-stocked with supplies from your farm and coop, and it will send a plentiful supply of food to your slimes. This means that not only do they stay happy but they’ll also produce a steady supply of plorts for you.

The final early upgrade we recommend is the plort collector. This saves you from having to venture inside the corrals to collect plorts. It’s especially helpful if you have rock slimes, as their spikes reduce your health if they bump into you.

Once you’ve got these basics down, you’re ready to explore further afield and see what else the Far Far Range has to offer.

Enjoy your new life as a Slime Rancher.

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