any helpful tips for dealing with King Slime?

[✨Hot Soup✨]

im fairly early in, killed the first slime glurch with the slingshot.
my gear is nothing special: slime sword, wood bow + slingshot.

I found the summoning idol and figured out where it goes to activate...
but king slime seems to be way stronger, my ranged shots just don't even dent him.

should i just come back later when leveled + better gear or is there a better technique?
ps i cant even beat a caveling ogre.

[Chef Blazeardee]

yeah hes pretty tough if your not post the first three bosses try challenging him after having armor in the biomes further out and try and get the bubble gun from crabs in the sunken sea biome.

[✨Hot Soup✨]

im barely past the giant bug race track XD

[Koumori]

The trick to trivializing all the slime bosses (except Igneous) is to get the hang of moving just enough, and at just the right time, to avoid being jumped on rather than running around constantly — something which is quite a lot easier to do if you got the swift feather from Glurch.

If you didn't get the swift feather, then I agree with the above comment: just come back later when you have better equipment. In particular, obtaining the grub egg necklace and larva ring would negate the danger of accidentally stepping in a slime puddle when you're trying to dodge King Slime's jumps.

[✨Hot Soup✨]

I've considered cheesing by digging out the ground and slowly confining king slime to an island to contain his movement, but my equipment just isnt strong enough to dent him right now.

[Neirgara]

The King Slime works mostly like Glurch, but with more Armor, HP and Damage, so any tactic that works on Glurch should also work on the Slime King.

Digging out the ground will not work, since the slime bosses can jump on empty ground or water and will create new ground at that place. Same with building them in, they will just destroy everything in their path. You will have to face that one directly.

If you haven't yet deafeated Ghorm (the racing big bug) and the third mini boss, then you definitely want to wait until you have better equipment and level up your skills some more. Also cook food and craft potions. That stuff can make a huge difference.

[MapleQB]

Slingshot is a good weapon for dealing with him, and eating movement speed food will basically negate the speed loss from the slime on the ground. Don't pull him too far or he'll heal and reset.

[Felgrand07]

You will want at the minimum Iron-level armor and the iron bow with at least an archery skill of around lvl 35 before you fight king slime. The key is to keep attacking at a distance but don't go so far that the king looses arggo and returns back to the start.

[DarkinWolff]

In case anyone peeps this later. This is very easily possible with the following. If you have the minimum gear it will be much more difficult but still possible.
Area prep:

• Open up room/fill in holes/extend room
  
• Kill all slimes in room
  
• Remove slime from room floor with hoe

Note: You can easily destroy the surroundings by using the king slime and towing him around and resetting
Battle Prep:
Gear

• Full bronze armor
  
• Slingshot x2 or more (due to durability vs length of fight)
  
• Owlux pet preferred due to subterrier having issues hitting
  
• Any rings/necks/offhands that help with armor/crit/range/mov spd

Food

• Gooey Pepper wrap(larva + pepper) x 10
  
• Mushy Berry Pudding ( mush + heartberry) x 5

Battle:
At this point you are prepped to literally run around in circles after/while you pop food for a long time shooting slings and thats about it. This will work but takes foreeeeever and the longer you fight the more chances there are to mess up.
You can kinda cheese it by bring it to reset range and hitting it as you chase it back but DO NOT let it rest. Make sure to stay next to it for aggro and keep hitting it or it will heal.
For an easier time:
The above is meant for if you want to do it NOW and not later but if you spend some time in the larva area or killing the caveling shamans to get some decent items to make this fight considerably easier.
Grub neck/ring - set bonus unaffected by slime slow
dropped by monsters in larva area at a low % or the hive mother boss
skirmisher cap - range attk speed%
dropped by cave skirmisher (larva caveling)
Sticky Stick - Long range good early damage
dropped by glurch or found in the breakable slime objects on the ground in slime infested areas
Fireball staff/Shaman skull - This staff alone will carry you and pair it with skull for even better damage
dropped by caveling shaman but at a VERY low rate