Spawning gold slimes

[Sara_lenasmom]

I am really loving the fact that gold slimes will spawn anywhere and everywhere since the upgrade. If you need money, that is very helpful. You just have to make sure you have food on you. Water won't work. When you hit it with food, it will give you three plorts. That is a gold mine. Weird things can happen though.

A few days ago a gold slime spawned right in front of me. Before I could hit it with food, it kep going up and disappeared in the sky. Sometimes you look down and see 3 gold plorts with no gold slime in sight. One day I saw 3 gold slimes in one day in the Moss Blanket. I saw 2 in the Glass Desert.

I am curious about what others have experienced with gold slimes?

[Baarko]

so many gold slimes i used the vacpac push ability thingy to shove one off a cliff

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by purple8080:

I am curious about what others have experienced with gold slimes?

I haven't played Slime Rancher in a long time but I remember gold slimes. They are rare slimes. They can spawn anywhere, but if you approach any gold slime they will flee whether they had eaten or not. They flee because they are scared & shy of humans, so they aren't too fond of ranchers. So DON'T run at one! Just feed it from a far, it'll eat and plort and leave. Then you can move in and get the gold plorts. Luckily for ranchers, other slimes aren't interested in gold plorts at all. I remember times I found gold plorts with no sign of a gold slime in the area. So gold plorts won't get eaten before you can find them. Plus they can be anywhere, so I advise if you're hunting for plorts, you could possibly find gold plorts around any area in the world, so search the places well for the gold plorts. You can't catch gold slimes, they are impossible to vac up, cause they are so valuable, it would be cheating if people could ranch Gold Slimes. As far as I explored, gold slimes are pretty close to being pink slimes, since they'll eat any food you shoot near them. And they show up randomly, so I can't be sure to say if you had startled one in the morning that rest of the day you could find the slime again or even find plorts. But it's best if you locate them, shoot them food from a distance, not scarying them, then moving in to get the plorts :)

[Sara_lenasmom]

They changed how the gold slimes act. Not only is it easierr to hit them, sometimes you don't have to hit them at all. I found 3 plorts on the ground one time and the gold slime was nowhere to be seen.

[Rustoration]

that's just a case of them spawning before you see them and running into food on their own.

[aupra]

Originally posted by purple8080:

I am really loving the fact that gold slimes will spawn anywhere and everywhere since the upgrade. If you need money, that is very helpful. You just have to make sure you have food on you. Water won't work. When you hit it with food, it will give you three plorts. That is a gold mine. Weird things can happen thought.

This the achievement Hat Trick

[m.v.j]

Originally posted by Wotek:

Originally posted by purple8080:

I am really loving the fact that gold slimes will spawn anywhere and everywhere since the upgrade. If you need money, that is very helpful. You just have to make sure you have food on you. Water won't work. When you hit it with food, it will give you three plorts. That is a gold mine. Weird things can happen thought.

This the achievement Hat Trick

one usual food = 3 goldplorts = achievement "Hat Trick"?
Not true, at lieast actual version 6.0d

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by m.v.j:

Originally posted by Wotek:

This the achievement Hat Trick

one usual food = 3 goldplorts = achievement "Hat Trick"?
Not true, at lieast actual version 6.0d

It did work for me, but I think I was playing 0.6c at that time. The update may have changed that.

[Sara_lenasmom]

I already had the Hat Trick achievement. I really wanted to hear other ranchers' experience after the gold sureshot upgrade. I have found the weirdest stuff happens, and I love the extra gold plorts I am getting. I hope that there will be a use for them after launch.

[d.]

Oohh, sounds like I should come back. At the time it was the last achievement I had left, and I spent nearly a day running around, restarting, but couldn't find a gold slime.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Pretty cool at first, but now I ignore them. A few $300 plorts generally isn't worth the 50 of any other kind I can find laying around even just outside the ranch, so with only 4 Vac slots the gold plorts are usually the first thing I get rid of to make room for something else.

I have a full Ranch too though, with Largos of every slime making so many plorts that I can barely get an in-game day or two out in the field before I have to come back and harvest/replace my crops for them (I also have like 3 chicken coops, one for each type of hen). So yeah lol, kind of hard to dedicate time to hopefully run across Goldies. That'll hopefully change with some of the warp tech when I get those around the Ranch, and some portals in the field, because right now it takes nearly an in-game day just to run around, feed, collect and replace everything around the Ranch and its extensions.

Maybe if they were much more rare, and the plorts were worth more like $3000 each. And/or there was an extra Vac slot upgrade. And the in-game days, as well as hunger and crop growth rate, were slowed down just a lil (not to make the game easier, just to make full Ranches feel slightly less rushed for time).