Hi New to the Game slime farm question.

[ricky.d.keim]

Ive crafted a slime area by getting slime floor and surrounding it with a fence and some spikes but I haven't seen any Slimes yet. How long does it Take for them to start spawning?

[Doctor Darling]

This is just orange slime, right? It's the fastest spawning slime of the bunch. You can't be near it for them to spawn, I think you need to be like 6 blocks or more away from them.

[ricky.d.keim]

oh I see. Maybe that's why

[ricky.d.keim]

They're appearing now. Thank You for the Info.

[Patches]

Originally posted by Doctor Darling:

This is just orange slime, right? It's the fastest spawning slime of the bunch. You can't be near it for them to spawn, I think you need to be like 6 blocks or more away from them.

This is incorrect. You have to be within a certain radius of your mob farm (slime or otherwise) when the game checks the respawn command (this happens roughly every 20-30mins).

I don't remember the radius but it's pretty large. A few hundred tiles, if I remember rightly (200-300 tiles is about what I'm thinking).

If you have traps down in the slime farm area, you'll likely come back to lots of items floating and rarely see the actual slimes. That's what happens for me most of the time. I occasionally go into my mob farms to manually pick everything up and something will spawn in a farm next to me, though. XD