quantum slime keeping advice?

[braincell supreme]

my quantum slimes keep escaping the corral. i have the music box, high walls, AND air net, i keep them consistently stocked with food, yet they keep escaping. i ended up getting stuck because one had gotten itself stuck and i went to grab it and /I/ got stuck, for some reason i died, and then lost most of my quantum slimes (they were in my inventory as i had them in my vacpac when they escaped so i could put them back) and have to go get more. its not per say an issue, but its more or less annoying. especially when they get out and eat my hunter plorts and i have a ♥♥♥♥ ton of feral largos everywhere without me realizing until i go to where they are and theyre all causing chaos. what do i do to stop them from getting out all the time? its super frustrating.

[Zemecon]

Cross-posted from another thread on the front page right now:

Originally posted by Maomag:

A few tricks I use with Quantum slimes: 1) get a toy so that you divert their attention; 2) do not keep any fruit trees in the vicinity, preferably not even in that entire area; 3) keep their feeder well-stocked; 5) keep a pile of lemons on the floor of their corral whenever you can afford it.

The reason for that last trick is that it actually does lower the Quantums' incentive to project their qubit ghosts and those that do teleport outside will hang around the corral wanting to go back in where the lemons on the ground inside are. You are bound to lose a few Quantums here and there but the next best idea should be to keep the slimes in the vicinity of the corral if they do escape. And plan to put down a teleporter somewhere in the ruins in case some do escape so that you can get more.

SOURCE: https://steamcommunity.com/app/433340/discussions/0/3300476731142342205/?ctp=2

[t.tv/Chiminime]

personally i have just moved all of quantum slimes to Mochi's Manor and leave them free. i've put crops without scarecrowns there so i don't need to feed them manually, and it works fine. works too much actually, it lagged when i'd go there, so i had to downgrade my crops a little and get rid of a few slimes one time...

[Milk]

Honestly I just made them quantum tabbies with a toy, music, and lots of stony hens and they never leave.

[ArgentumRattus]

i free range about 30 quantum phosphors in the grotto with two lemon trees to feed them and two drones to pick up and sell the plorts to a remote sell station. never had one get out. In my experience its pointless to try and cage them because it seems no matter what you do or toys you have its never enough to keep them happy

[SF22]

Originally posted by Tminime:

personally i have just moved all of quantum slimes to Mochi's Manor and leave them free. i've put crops without scarecrowns there so i don't need to feed them manually, and it works fine. works too much actually, it lagged when i'd go there, so i had to downgrade my crops a little and get rid of a few slimes one time...

I did this. Though a couple of the more rebellious buggers jumped off the edge

[Zemecon]

None of my slimes are free-range and I have 10 of each of the 15 catch-able types in the game, excepting the Puddle slime which I have 5 of and which sort of could be considered free-range because they are living in the pool in the Docks expansion, but that was only because I ran out of lots for everything else. Really, it isn't that impossible. You will always lose some Quantum slimes no matter what you do so I find that putting them in a corral at least helps me keep better track of them, as it does for all of my other slimes.

At one time I had a bunch of free-range Tabby slimes in the Overgrowth expansion but they ended up eating most of my chickens, uprooting a lot of my veggies and displacing them, and I could never tell how many I had of them. Eventually I did a head count by catching all of them. Turns out I had 25 when I originally thought I only had 20 - the extra 5 most likely came when I thought I had lost one or two and replaced them with more.

With slimes in a corral atleast you can do a quick check by vaccing them all up and then you know how many you have. The only thing free-range does is fool you into thinking you no longer need to keep track of them, which is kinda a false sense of relief. Not that free-range is bad, but it should be done to allow your slimes more roaming freedom rather than an answer-all to avoid keeping track of them.

[PSYCHIC HIVEMIND CYCLIST DEATH]

What is the problem with you people asking "where do I put my quantum slimes?"
The obvious solution is to put them in the grottto! They can't escape, even when they are super hungry.
Y'all people foolin around, ya don't know what you're doing.

[purplecharmanderz]

Originally posted by swaggmann {1-47}:

What is the problem with you people asking "where do I put my quantum slimes?"
The obvious solution is to put them in the grottto! They can't escape, even when they are super hungry.
Y'all people foolin around, ya don't know what you're doing.

unlikely to escape and can't escape are two very different things i should note.