Slime anatomy

[Helldiver Joe]

I always wondered whats inside those cute little slimes? Where is stomach ? What happens to the live chicken when its ate, does it just go poof? I know I am just over analyzing such a cute simple game but it would be cool to see if someone made a drawing of the anatomy of the slimes. Id love to see what people think on this thanks.

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ:

I always wondered whats inside those cute little slimes? Where is stomach ? What happens to the live chicken when its ate, does it just go poof? I know I am just over analyzing such a cute simple game but it would be cool to see if someone made a drawing of the anatomy of the slimes. Id love to see what people think on this thanks.

It is interesting :D I'll give it a shot :D

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ:

I always wondered whats inside those cute little slimes? Where is stomach ? What happens to the live chicken when its ate, does it just go poof? I know I am just over analyzing such a cute simple game but it would be cool to see if someone made a drawing of the anatomy of the slimes. Id love to see what people think on this thanks.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=970149029&fileuploadsuccess=1

It's not much, sorry for that, but I drew this :D I hope it's interesting.

[Psyringe]

Very cute looking drawing. The slime looks a bit hungry with the big empty stomach though, I want to feed it some carrots now. ;)

Regarding anatomy - personally, I don't think that the slimes have dedicated organs as we know them, apart from the facial features. I believe that their innards are rather an amorphous mass of unspecified cells, which they can quickly adapt if needed:

If the slime gets fed, some of the cells produce acids to digest the food. Since these acids will _also_ dissolve some of the slime's own cells (just as our own stomach would dissolve itself if it didn't keep producing protective layers), they need to be excreted quickly. So once the food is digested, other slime cells produce enzymes that crystallize the acids, and compress them together with any undigestable food residues to a plort, which then gets excreted.

This theory of highly adaptive unspecified cells in the slime also explains the very sudden metamorphosis into a largo. When a slime digests a plort, it unlocks residues of the DNA of the slime that produced that plot - and since the slime cells can adjust quickly, they incorporate that DNA into their own, which does not cause a system shock because there _is_ no complex metabolism to be shocked, just unspecified cells.

A question that still remains, though, is how slimes survive without food. They definitely need energy for these inner reconfiguration (or even just for moving around). Yet, even without getting food, they can still do all this indefinitely, in fact the only effect of food deprivations is that the slimes get more agitated, which should require even more energy. So they seem to have an as of yet undiscovered energy source apart from food.

That said, there is also a ... minuscule ... chance that I may be overthinking this. ;)

[Milluku]

Originally posted by Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ:

I always wondered whats inside those cute little slimes? Where is stomach ? What happens to the live chicken when its ate, does it just go poof? I know I am just over analyzing such a cute simple game but it would be cool to see if someone made a drawing of the anatomy of the slimes. Id love to see what people think on this thanks.

The chicken quickly melts into the slime's stomach after it's eaten since the slime's metabolism is very VERY fast, notice how fast it poops? The chicken dies, is digested and the extra nutrients are pooped out in under 5 seconds.

As for their anatomy, i'd say that their outer slime layer (skin) is more rigid than what's in the inside since the slime has to use his mouth to eat its food. There's no apparent organs so i assume they use their slime insides to digest their food.

[bweg]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Very cute looking drawing. The slime looks a bit hungry with the big empty stomach though, I want to feed it some carrots now. ;)

Regarding anatomy - personally, I don't think that the slimes have dedicated organs as we know them, apart from the facial features. I believe that their innards are rather an amorphous mass of unspecified cells, which they can quickly adapt if needed:

If the slime gets fed, some of the cells produce acids to digest the food. Since these acids will _also_ dissolve some of the slime's own cells (just as our own stomach would dissolve itself if it didn't keep producing protective layers), they need to be excreted quickly. So once the food is digested, other slime cells produce enzymes that crystallize the acids, and compress them together with any undigestable food residues to a plort, which then gets excreted.

This theory of highly adaptive unspecified cells in the slime also explains the very sudden metamorphosis into a largo. When a slime digests a plort, it unlocks residues of the DNA of the slime that produced that plot - and since the slime cells can adjust quickly, they incorporate that DNA into their own, which does not cause a system shock because there _is_ no complex metabolism to be shocked, just unspecified cells.

A question that still remains, though, is how slimes survive without food. They definitely need energy for these inner reconfiguration (or even just for moving around). Yet, even without getting food, they can still do all this indefinitely, in fact the only effect of food deprivations is that the slimes get more agitated, which should require even more energy. So they seem to have an as of yet undiscovered energy source apart from food.

That said, there is also a ... minuscule ... chance that I may be overthinking this. ;)

As this is far, far into the future, the slimes may be absorbing a very large amount of solar power during the day, and the ones that live in caves and glow could be the first perpetual energy machines.

The volcanic and crystal slimes can probably also do this, with arguably less energy because the glass skin of the crystal slime makes it easier to get solar energy, I'm assuming from the volcanic slimes glow.

I haven't played enough of the game to get to see most of the slimes, and I know that a few might use different sources of energy, but I think that this theory generally accounts for most slimes.

That said, there is also a ... minuscule ... chance that I may be overthinking this. ;)

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Bwgee / VDC:

As this is far, far into the future, the slimes may be absorbing a very large amount of solar power during the day, and the ones that live in caves and glow could be the first perpetual energy machines.

Solar Energy was my first idea as well, but the phosphor slimes do indeed pose a problem there. We can declare them to be an exception, but I wonder if there's a theory that can explain the observable data without a need for exceptions.

I actually think I may just have found one: airborne micro-slime plankton. ;)

Consider this: The landmass that we play on, is surrounded by the Slime Sea. We know from the in-game Slimepedia that it is not a regular ocean but rather a mixture of water and slime, and it is believed to be the "primordial pool" from which the slimes of today (or their ancestors) emerged.

Let's assume that there is (or was) a food chain in the slime sea similar to the one we find in Earth's oceans: large amounts of very small organisms (plankton) that functioned as food for bigger organisms.

Now, what happens when the sun shines on the Slime Sea? Since part of it is water, it will evaporate, rise up, and form clouds. If "slime plankton" particles are small enough, they might rise up as well. Once it rains (we know that it rains on this planet, the game just never shows it), not only is water coming down, but the air will also be enriched with these small micro slime plankton particles that worked as food for the bigger organisms in the Slime Sea.

Since today's slimes descended from those organism, it is very likely that they can still use these particles as food. This would also explain why they have mouths despite not really requiring food items to function: they use their mouths to take in micro slime plankton from the air. And the nice thing is, this explanation works even for the slimes that can't process sunlight. ;)

That said, I think the chance of me overthinking this has now risen from "minuscule" to ... "tiny"? ;)

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Mikgau:

As for their anatomy, i'd say that their outer slime layer (skin) is more rigid than what's in the inside since the slime has to use his mouth to eat its food. There's no apparent organs so i assume they use their slime insides to digest their food.

Yes. Also note by how much the slimes deform when they fall to the ground and then jump up again. This degree of deformation suggests that their inner structure is not solid, but rather fluid or viscous, held together by a non-permeable, elastic outer hull.

The slimes might be preserving the environment they originally descended from (the Slime Sea) in their inner bodies, or at least parts of it.

[bweg]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Originally posted by Mikgau:

As for their anatomy, i'd say that their outer slime layer (skin) is more rigid than what's in the inside since the slime has to use his mouth to eat its food. There's no apparent organs so i assume they use their slime insides to digest their food.

Yes. Also note by how much the slimes deform when they fall to the ground and then jump up again. This degree of deformation suggests that their inner structure is not solid, but rather fluid or viscous, held together by a non-permeable, elastic outer hull.

The slimes might be preserving the environment they originally descended from (the Slime Sea) in their inner bodies, or at least parts of it.

So imagine this, in the beginning of the Slime Planets history, there were only three things on the planet, the ocean slime, plankton, and a lot of chicken-filled islands.

From your plankton theory we can determine that the ocean slime was converting all of the plankton and such growing inside of itself into energy, which it then used to make plorts. However, it converted a whole lot of energy, and therefore made a whole lot of plorts.

And where else to put all of its poop but on the chicken filled islands, where over many, many years the plorts evolved into slimes, possibly by gathering together to become a larger slime, which is supported by the existence of largos.

Possibly meaning, that all plorts are actually conscious to some degree, and may hold a very small amount of brain power, so to say that when they gather together, they could become a smarter, and larger being.

Which could lead us to the conclusion that the ocean slime is actually incredibly intelligent, and that largos are also slighty more intelligent.

There's also a possibility that certain types of plorts are more dense then others, which is what causes the variation in color, and very possibly means that some slimes are smarter than others. We can figure this out by seeing what slimes plorts are worth the most, which explains why the slimes with the better plorts are harder to get, because they're smarter and better at hiding.

Sorry if that's a lot of information, but its a very solid theory.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Bwgee / VDC:

Sorry if that's a lot of information, but its a very solid theory.

Intelligent ocean slimes are definitely an interesting prospect! And all joking aside, I think an underwater area would actually be an excellent idea for a DLC. Lots of opportunities to create an interesting environment, and sufficiently different from the main game to warrant the extra cost. Meet gargantuan slimes at the bottom of the deep sea ... search flooded ruins for treasure pods ... explore tunnel systems of a coral reef (now it's the human that's being cor(r)alled! Hah!), and so on. ;)

Regarding the intelligent plorts: _If_ plorts have intelligence, have you considered what that means in the end? Judging from the descriptions in the Slimepedia, the human economy pretty much _depends_ on plorts. They have become an integral part of construction, science, medicine, cosmetics, and even the food industry. Humans are in contact with plort-based products each day, from the things they touch to the things they apply to their bodies and even to things they ingest.

So ... could this all be _planned_? Maybe we humans aren't really exploiting a foreign planet for plorts, perhaps it's the _plorts_ that want to get to Earth! Are we witnessing a large-scale invasion, perhaps controlled by a deep-sea slime mastermind, that is just camouflaged as a transfer of resources?

Questions, questions ... ;)

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Very cute looking drawing. The slime looks a bit hungry with the big empty stomach though, I want to feed it some carrots now. ;)

Regarding anatomy - personally, I don't think that the slimes have dedicated organs as we know them, apart from the facial features. I believe that their innards are rather an amorphous mass of unspecified cells, which they can quickly adapt if needed:

If the slime gets fed, some of the cells produce acids to digest the food. Since these acids will _also_ dissolve some of the slime's own cells (just as our own stomach would dissolve itself if it didn't keep producing protective layers), they need to be excreted quickly. So once the food is digested, other slime cells produce enzymes that crystallize the acids, and compress them together with any undigestable food residues to a plort, which then gets excreted.

This theory of highly adaptive unspecified cells in the slime also explains the very sudden metamorphosis into a largo. When a slime digests a plort, it unlocks residues of the DNA of the slime that produced that plot - and since the slime cells can adjust quickly, they incorporate that DNA into their own, which does not cause a system shock because there _is_ no complex metabolism to be shocked, just unspecified cells.

A question that still remains, though, is how slimes survive without food. They definitely need energy for these inner reconfiguration (or even just for moving around). Yet, even without getting food, they can still do all this indefinitely, in fact the only effect of food deprivations is that the slimes get more agitated, which should require even more energy. So they seem to have an as of yet undiscovered energy source apart from food.

That said, there is also a ... minuscule ... chance that I may be overthinking this. ;)

Thanks for liking my drawing, I drew it for Bear, since they were the one asking for drawings of slime anatomy. To be honest, I'm not positive there's organs either :3 Your theory makes sense, cause we'd probably be able to see the belly or organs from the light within a Phosphor slime then huh? To try to answer your question how a slime can live without food, it's possible they have "fat" thing like we do. That some of the food they eat doesn't immediately turn into a plort, some might get stored somewhere in their blob mass. So they can live off of stored energy while they wait for an opportunity to get food or to wait for their rancher to feed them. It's also possible, since slimes can survive travelling through the Slime Sea that there's food sources in there that they snack on if they can't find any food. And ranchers can't survive in that sea yet because the technology isn't advanced enough to allow safe travel down there. Hehe, it's okay if you thought too much into it :D It happens when you're into a game, hehe, you wonder about the unknown parts like the anatomy and you start guessing about it :3 It's fun to do with other fans! :D the community is so welcoming :D

[HoneyButtSmacks]

its unknown.. though people like to use examples of creatures on earth that may share similarities then say thats how these slime must be... but i doubt it...

i dont know of a single living creature that can essentially break apart its body and flow thru solid rocks as its suggested in the slimepedia about how slimes traverse through the slime sea and almost instanly reappear on land by moving through solid ground extremely fast after being tossed into the sea by humans to begin with... xb

if anything. one thing thats almost certain is they are basically a state between liquid and solid, basically more liquid when passing through the ground and in the sea but take a more solid form when on land and not passing through stuff!!! example fire and the puddle slimes are more liquid then the rest but still solid enough to not sink thru the dirt and soil like water does.. which i assume they do only to pass thru the soil to only become more solid to stay on it..
if you explode a tar.. you'll notice its splatter pieces look like they're draining back down into the ground... possibly back into the slime sea... that makes me wonder that maybe after killing a tar it goes to the sea and gets reverted back into its origional hence why after you kill a tar(s) infestion.. normal slimes reappear... i had a tar eat 10 slimes and made 10 tars aka 11 tars.. after they "died" 11 normal slimes popped out of the rocks and grass... <:O

as far as plorts go... dont know... butt to me it seems that whatever they eat, its makeup and chemicals are 100% converted into what the slimes are made of... and the slimes only make plorts cause they are just regulating their size, aka they dont want to become bigger i guess... unless its a plort from another slime that has different properties, cause they really have no choice cause if they want to gain a new abiity they have to take the mass of that plort!!!

plus we know gordos are a combination of 10 slimes that just merge together, aka like mixing water with more water, or vanilla pudding with vanilla putting... i dont thing living things on earth even do stuff like this... xb

plus if we look at one of the slime in the lave lamp... they basically distort like wax being heated and cooled! again no such animal on earth behaves this way as far as i know.. not even

they are completely alien when it comes to life on earth despite people trying to use similirties to explain their anotmoy.. even the slimpedia says that the scientist dont really understand how the slimes work.. xb so how could we know... lol

[Helldiver Joe]

wow so many peps commenting thanks :D

[Helldiver Joe]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Originally posted by Bwgee / VDC:

Sorry if that's a lot of information, but its a very solid theory.

Intelligent ocean slimes are definitely an interesting prospect! And all joking aside, I think an underwater area would actually be an excellent idea for a DLC. Lots of opportunities to create an interesting environment, and sufficiently different from the main game to warrant the extra cost. Meet gargantuan slimes at the bottom of the deep sea ... search flooded ruins for treasure pods ... explore tunnel systems of a coral reef (now it's the human that's being cor(r)alled! Hah!), and so on. ;)

Regarding the intelligent plorts: _If_ plorts have intelligence, have you considered what that means in the end? Judging from the descriptions in the Slimepedia, the human economy pretty much _depends_ on plorts. They have become an integral part of construction, science, medicine, cosmetics, and even the food industry. Humans are in contact with plort-based products each day, from the things they touch to the things they apply to their bodies and even to things they ingest.

So ... could this all be _planned_? Maybe we humans aren't really exploiting a foreign planet for plorts, perhaps it's the _plorts_ that want to get to Earth! Are we witnessing a large-scale invasion, perhaps controlled by a deep-sea slime mastermind, that is just camouflaged as a transfer of resources?

Questions, questions ... ;)

I dont think they would need to add DLC they could just add that into the game somehow. (not trying to be a jerk D:)

[bweg]

I was really hoping that people wouldn't pick up on the joke aspects...

But yeah, all joking aside, some of the other aspects are possibly true