is hatching slimes worth it?

[failsafe]

So far I try to mix my profits mostly from crops - strawberries + coffee - and some animals + artisan stuff (truffle oil, wine, dried mushrooms). I thought that maybe creating slime ranch could be a nice addition. But, to be honest, I dont know how to earn money on this - how does it work. And is it worth it in terms of time investment? Im slowly reaching point where I spend too much time just walking around my farm ;-P

[di eshor ribly]

It can be, but sort of not really. After building a slime hutch you can randomly find slime eggs as monster drops. You can also turn 100 slime into a random egg with a slime press. You take these slime eggs and throw them into a slime incubator in your hutch. With any luck you get a male and female slime, who then reproduce (up to 20 slimes per hutch).

Once you have a slime population they will spawn "slime sacs" on the floor of the hutch, which you can pick up for some slime. Use these sacs to stockpile more eggs to replenish your slimestock. After you've got another selection of eggs, murder your slimes for drops and toss some more eggs into the incubator to start the process over.

Green slime eggs are the cheapest, with Tigerslime (from ginger island) being the most expensive. Slimes you spawn have their normal item drop list, so you can farm say... purple slimes as a source of iridium ore.

Finally, some advice for slime maintenace: before you even hatch a slime you have to prepare your hutch. Slimes will not drop slime sacs on top of tiled flooring, and you also don't want to be dodging slimes every time you go in. So use some floor and fences/gates to make an inner slime pen. Toss some sprinklers next to the water spots to keep them topped off, or just fence the slimes off from the water tub. The tub has to be full of water to get sacs, but the slimes don't actually have to drink the water. Finally, toss in a Wicked Statue so the witch doesn't randomly curse your slimes.

[Antidote#77]

A slime ranch is usually not worth it cause the only way to profit is by killing them and use the Slime Press to make Eggs, not to mention you need the Slime Charmer Ring too.

You ought better build a Slime Hutch and make a enclosure for them with fences, Pathing (Slimeballs can't spawn on Pathings) and sprinklers to auto-refill the water, then place the Incubator pointing toward the enclosure. This way if you have more than 2 Slimes, you can just check back in a weak to collect and profit.

Note that the Hutch can only hold 20 Slimes at a time while there are no limit to how many Slimes you can hold on your farm.

[Aerogems]

If you're playing SVE there's a golden slime egg you can get, which may make the hutch worth the while (you can just ignore it after getting one if you want) but otherwise, unless you're planning to make like a ton of oil presses or something that requires a lot of slime, it's kind of a useless building I've never understood the point of.

[Wolfox]

Originally posted by Aerogems:

If you're playing SVE there's a golden slime egg you can get, which may make the hutch worth the while (you can just ignore it after getting one if you want) but otherwise, unless you're planning to make like a ton of oil presses or something that requires a lot of slime, it's kind of a useless building I've never understood the point of.

well with the new update you could place a bed in there and basically live in this epic purple castle, at least that is what I consider doing for my new farm

[failsafe]

Hmm... I guess I will skip this element then ;-P. Dont feel like investing lots of time and resources only to get medicore results. I wish my wife could do some serious job on the farm, so that I could kill more monsters in caves ;-P

[Aluvard]

Originally posted by failsafe:

Hmm... I guess I will skip this element then ;-P. Dont feel like investing lots of time and resources only to get medicore results. I wish my wife could do some serious job on the farm, so that I could kill more monsters in caves ;-P

It's kinda like passive money generator but introduced too late to be something more than curiosity.

[NBOX21]

It's worth noting that you don't have to hatch slime eggs in the Slime Hutch. You can craft your own slime incubator or, as of 1.6, remove the incubator that comes with the Slime Hutch and move it somewhere else.

You can raise slimes pretty much anywhere, and it's much more worthwhile to setup a slime farm outdoors as while the Slime Hutch has a population limit of 20 slimes, there is no limit when raising slimes outdoors. The only downsides are that you won't get slime sacs outdoors like you would in the Slime Hutch, and slimes have a chance of escaping overnight if they're on your farm which you can prevent by raising slimes outside the farm entirely.

Purple slime eggs are my personal favourite as they're a reliable way of obtaining iridium ore, especially once you get lot of purple slimes that start breeding in very high numbers.

[di eshor ribly]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3364260720

Just popped back in here to give you a screenshot of a basic set up for safety and profit. Slime sacs won't spawn on the gray stone floor, only on the brown wooden section.

[Aerogems]

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3364260720

Just popped back in here to give you a screenshot of a basic set up for safety and profit. Slime sacs won't spawn on the gray stone floor, only on the brown wooden section.

The slime charmer ring means that they can jump around all they want, they won't be able to touch you.

Honestly, I just put a slime hutch on my farm because I have like 15m G in the bank and literally nothing left to spend it on. A light day for me is about 120K, so even if it's the first of the month and I'm buying all new seeds, I make it back and then some in a single day.

But on a side note, since we're talking about slimes. Anyone else find it kind of disturbing the way they reproduce in the game? I'm sure Ape intended it to be funny when first developing the game, but it has maybe not aged quite as well as the rest of the game.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Aerogems:

But on a side note, since we're talking about slimes. Anyone else find it kind of disturbing the way they reproduce in the game? I'm sure Ape intended it to be funny when first developing the game, but it has maybe not aged quite as well as the rest of the game.

Not so much disturbing as it is strange.
You hatch them from eggs which takes 2-3 days, yet when they breed, they don't lay eggs but instead produce live offspring themselves near instantly which can mature in a few minutes after which they produce even more live young and the cycle repeats.

[Drinkcup]

they are worth it if you want to make tons of bank

but it gets old harvesting them, fast

[nandoplay.dev]

They are really good fun, but not a money making option. So that's more end game and even a way to extend time playing the game when you've done it all.

I turned my whole quarry into a slime open farm and with a specific trinket you are safe to play around them. There are colorful funny pets that grow by the hundred very quickly.

A joyful waste of time!

[Aerogems]

Originally posted by NBOX21:

Originally posted by Aerogems:

But on a side note, since we're talking about slimes. Anyone else find it kind of disturbing the way they reproduce in the game? I'm sure Ape intended it to be funny when first developing the game, but it has maybe not aged quite as well as the rest of the game.

Not so much disturbing as it is strange. :greenslime:
You hatch them from eggs which takes 2-3 days, yet when they breed, they don't lay eggs but instead produce live offspring themselves near instantly which can mature in a few minutes after which they produce even more live young and the cycle repeats.

No no no... I mean in the wild.

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Slimes#Mating

[Dekar_Serverbot]

TBH I used to get one of each hut: purple, green and blue.
But they were more like pets color coded to organize wine batches and have a constant flux of earnings. When the basement was available, i no longer built slime hutches

[iaregamertom]

No

Other than being a completionist and wanting to unlock slime eggs and getting different slimes, In 2000 hours I only ever build one just so I have one, its useful ish if you want to kill 1000 slimes for the adventures guild but ive always done this before getting the hutch.
Its relatively useless, no good for income and no good for anything, its just one of those "why not, i`m rich" buildings.

It looks ugly, it doesnt fit with anything visually, and once you build it, I guarantee you, you will almost never go into it