How do you manage your ranch??

[Akamushi]

I am interested in knowing how people work in their Ranchs, for an example, my way of working is this.

I always work with Largo slimes due to efficiency, farming fruit and vegetables is easier than chickens, which take a crazy amount of time from my point of view, even so, i raise chickens with my free time.
I never count the amount of largos i have trapped in a pen (I will start to, having a limit of 15 from now on, i might increase this limit, i have never had problems with having less than 30 largos in a pen)
I tend to cross slimes to get a certain amount of beauty, my favorite crossbreed right now is Honey x Tabby slime and Hunter x Rock slime.
When i "woke up" in game the first thing i do is collect the produced food, feed slimes and collect plorts.
I have 2 from each fruit and vegetable i need to feed, for example, 2 Mint Mango trees (Due to my exaggerated amount of Largo slimes)
I have 2 Roostro and 3 of the Hens i will breed (Stony, Briar, etc) in one Corral, each day i collect them all to count them, then return the numbers to 2 and 3.
I have silos where i store food (Each tree produces 15, i feed 10 and store 5) i don't really have a reason to do this (Since my farm works just fine), i like to have food stored just in case.
Before i make largos i fully upgrade a pen for security.
When i explore, i take my time, but i always return home at night or the morning after i left to feed my slimes (I have Auto-feeders, but i don't trust them)
In case i don't have largos in a pen, i tend to have more than 30 slimes, which i don't tend to pay a lot of attention to, when i find a slime to make a Largo, i free the excessive amount of slimes at the ocean.
I don't raise Pink slimes (Useless from my point of view) or Boom slimes (I don't really like them nor find them useful enough) in case i need their plorts, i make a Pink x Boom Largo and raise it just for when i need them.
I am more of a Collector than an Explorer, when i explore, i do so to collect stuff (Or get new slimes to make more Largos) instead of finding new interesting things, but when i find something new, i'll obviously take it with me, aside from that, i would rather stay time around my farm doing upgrades and taking care of my slimes, looking at what i need and checking everything under my care.
I keep Puddle slimes in The Grotto, i don't know, i feel they are more comfortable there.
I tend to explore the same area only 2 or 3 times, take everything new with me, and never return there.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I always work with Largo slimes due to efficiency, farming fruit and vegetables is easier than chickens, which take a crazy amount of time from my point of view, even so, i raise chickens with my free time.

Yeah, thats the general approach that most people take (minus the chicken handling, see below).

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I never count the amount of largos i have trapped in a pen (I will start to, having a limit of 15 from now on, i might increase this limit, i have never had problems with having less than 30 largos in a pen)

30 is way too much. Even with the autofeeder set to its highest speed, you'll only feed less than half of those, and the rest will be unhappy, won't produce plorts, and are dead weight at best (and a security hazard at worst).

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I tend to cross slimes to get a certain amount of beauty, my favorite crossbreed right now is Honey x Tabby slime and Hunter x Rock slime.

All slimes are beautiful to me. :) I cross slimes increase plort production and simplify their diet, while also considering safety.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

When i "woke up" in game the first thing i do is collect the produced food, feed slimes and collect plorts.

I practically never go to sleep, so I never wake up either. I just tend to my farm whenever I return from a trip. In the past I made only short trips because my farm was built to maximize profit, which required a lot of maintenance. Nowadays I have all the money and plorts I could possibly need, so I rebuilt my ranch into a puddle plort paradise. Minimal maintenance, I can explore for as long as I like without having to think about farm duties, and I can still make profit whenever I get back home.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I have 2 from each fruit and vegetable i need to feed, for example, 2 Mint Mango trees (Due to my exaggerated amount of Largo slimes)

Makes sense if you try to rack up the number of plorts in your refinery. Not so much if you're selling the plorts. For selling, it's important to store them while the price is low, and sell them when the price peaks. For storing you need silos. The farm does not have enough space to hold largos producing all types of plorts, plus two gardens per corral, plus all the silos you'd need. Hence one garden per corral is usually enough, though two gardens are a good way of maximizing plort output when you need many of them quickly, e.g. for building gadgets.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I have 2 Roostro and 3 of the Hens i will breed (Stony, Briar, etc) in one Corral, each day i collect them all to count them, then return the numbers to 2 and 3.

Imho keeping chickens in a coop or corral is a waste of a building plot. They breed like mad if you just let them roam freely - without requiring any maintenance - so why waste a building plot for a setup that requires _more_ work for a _smaller_ number of chickens? I also used largo combinations that eliminated the need for meat as food, so I kept the chickens just for the occasional gordo.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I have silos where i store food (Each tree produces 15, i feed 10 and store 5) i don't really have a reason to do this (Since my farm works just fine), i like to have food stored just in case.

Waste of silo space. The feeder already hold 100 items. If you ever need a fruit or veggie (for example to re-seed a garden), just pull it out of the feeder. You'll never run out, and even if you did, you could just collect another batch of food from outside. I'd use the silo for storing plorts so that you can bridge spells of low market prices.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

Before i make largos i fully upgrade a pen for security.

Yeah, no reason not to unless you're planning to demolish the corral soon after.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

When i explore, i take my time, but i always return home at night or the morning after i left to feed my slimes (I have Auto-feeders, but i don't trust them)

The autofeeders are reliable (though, in the way you set up your farm, you'll never be able to feed all your slimes with them). When I had my farm in "high profit, high maintenance" mode, I made sure that I returned to it often, since the harvests come every 5 in-game hours and the food spoils if you don't collect it. Nowadays I have a maintenance-free farm and go exploring for days without thinking about it.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

In case i don't have largos in a pen, i tend to have more than 30 slimes, which i don't tend to pay a lot of attention to, when i find a slime to make a Largo, i free the excessive amount of slimes at the ocean.

Not sure what that means, are you talking about keeping slimes outside of a pen (in free roam) or about keeping non-largo slimes?

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I don't raise Pink slimes (Useless from my point of view) or Boom slimes (I don't really like them nor find them useful enough) in case i need their plorts, i make a Pink x Boom Largo and raise it just for when i need them.

Pink slimes are probably the most important type of slime, they are the only slime that I'd consider assigning two corrals to. The amount of pink plorts required for most gadgets is immense.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I am more of a Collector than an Explorer, when i explore, i do so to collect stuff (Or get new slimes to make more Largos) instead of finding new interesting things, but when i find something new, i'll obviously take it with me, aside from that, i would rather stay time around my farm doing upgrades and taking care of my slimes, looking at what i need and checking everything under my care.

At first, the main reason for exploring is to find all the slimes and food types. Once you got that, treasure pods still provide a strong incentive to explore the maps thoroughly. The nice thing is that everyone can set their pace in the way they want.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I keep Puddle slimes in The Grotto, i don't know, i feel they are more comfortable there.

I'd see that as a waste of a building plot. The grotto is a great area for keeping large numbers of slimes on free roam (e.g. put 50-80 pink mosaic slimes there and collect hundreds of plorts a day, an easy way to satisfy the huge requirements of pink plorts for slime science while also getting large amounts of valuable mosaic plorts - but for that to work, the building plots in the grotto should be gardens with the free-roaming largos' favorite food). Puddle slimes I'd keep in the pool in the docks, which cannot be used for anything else. No need to have additional pools unless your're like me and go for a minimum maintenance farm after getting all the money and plorts you want.

Originally posted by Akamushi:

I tend to explore the same area only 2 or 3 times, take everything new with me, and never return there.

You kind of have to revisit map areas several times if you want to open all the treasure pods. But other than that, there is indeed little need for revisiting map areas, as long as you _do_ search them thoroughly, and find (and pop) the gordos that give you the slime keys which you need to progress to other areas.

[Sara_lenasmom]

I manage my ranch by managing the type and number of slimes ranched at any one time. I use the refinery to be my guide. I periodically change all of the simes in my ranch depending on what kind of slimes I need. I was able to get the rewards rather quickly without too much stress because I waas patient and consistent. I did vary my routine as to not get bored. I always keep my corral numbers small so that if I was away exploring, all heck did not break loose.