Slime Hutch?

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

I've been trying to figure out what the point of the slime hutch is. Is it to build up a lot of purple slimes and hope to get iridium for slaughtering them all? It just seems like a big investment of time and resources for not a lot of actual value.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Some people just really like slime.

[BCD]

Never really saw the point in it either. I feel like it's a thing you build for the sake of building it, as it were. It goes without saying that you should only even consider getting a slime hutch when your farm is really advanced, so it just looks like an extra building project to me.

I do seem to remember someone suggest that it was to produce slime eggs. In fairness, they do sell for a lot (ranging from 1k to 5k depending on color), though that still looks like too much investment for not a lot of profit to me. I'd be very curious to see someone make a game plan where the slime hutch plays a central role.

[76561198946334795]

I only got it because it was there and I had the stuff and money to make it with. It does generate some unique dialogue with Sebastian, if you're married to him and what's his name from the Guild, my memory sucks so his name escapes me now. Though I accidentily slayed some of my uniquely coloured slimes, I had a yellow one, don't know how that happened but I killed it *sad face*

[BCD]

Originally posted by animeangel1983:

what's his name from the Guild, my memory sucks so his name escapes me now.

Marlon, by the way.

I was actually wondering how one handles selectively killing slime. If you're using the galaxy sword or galaxy hammer, you'll hit a lot of them at once and hit them hard, hard enough even to one-shot the weaker ones. You could easily kill some rare slime accidentally if you hit them a couple of times. On that note, I wonder if their health regenerates, but I doubt that anyone here knows this.

[I Kinda Fail]

Slime breeding is pointless due to how difficult it is. The only way it would really work would be to completely rework it so, while wearing the slime charmer ring, you can examine the slimes like you do with cows, and add a way to check their genetics and lead them into separate pens. As it is, there's no real way to easily section them off.

The hutch itself is worth building on most playthroughs, though. If nothing else, it adds slime eggs as an extra drop in the mines, adding extra passive income while killing slimes. You can demolish the building after building it, if you want, but it must be built once to unlock slime eggs as monster drops.

Aside from that, it's... okay. Not great, except for some niche playstyles. The free daily slime will be very beneficial to someone doing a fishing-based playthrough, as wild bait needs a lot of slime to craft. Otherwise, extra slime can be used for one of the decent/good fishing tackles, or crafted into eggs to be sold. If you want to raise them for iridium or diamonds, you should do so outdoors; the hutch can only hold 20, but an outdoor pen will see their numbers grow exponentially. You can get, say, 50 purple slimes cooped up, kill 30 of them in like 10 seconds, and then let the remaining 20 get back to breeding more. It's free passive iridium and diamonds, without having to enter the skull caverns.

[deargrays]

i think the point is to get lots of slime from them, put it in a slime egg-press, and sell the eggs, because they're worth quite a bit of money.