How do you manage your slimes?

[Piare]

Hello. I started Slime Rancher 2 days ago and now proceeding in the Glass Dessert.
I'm having trouble with managing my slimes so wondering if I can get some advice.

I like to travel outer areas but it seems the slimes get hungry too fast.
Sometimes it takes a whole day to just harvest crops/plorts and feed slimes.
The game is fun, but it feels a bit tired... Maybe there's sth inefficient with my way.
How many times a day should I feed them?
Also, I'm curious if there's any good choice of crops or optimal number of slimes.
I would appreciate it if you share your thoughts.

P.S) There are 5 kinds of Largos in my ranch and about 10 slimes in each Corrals.
(Largo : Pink+Honey / Rock+Tabby / Rock+Boom / Tangle+Honey / Phosphor+Rad
Normal slimes : Pink / Crystal / Mosaic)
For fruits, there are Cuberries & Mint Mangoes and Heartbeet & Odd Onion for veggies.

[Plural Pellegrina]

According to a guide that I read, if you have the auto-feeder on the lowest setting it will be enough to feed 5 largos, medium will feed 7, and high will feed 10ish. At the lowest setting, you can keep the auto-feeder reasonably filled with just one garden and filling it once or twice a day. Medium and high settings will require a lot more management.

I find it is best to have 5 largos and auto-feeder on lowest setting with just one garden for that corral, which allows me to have enough corrals for largos to put out every type of plort, gardens for everything, and enough silos to have at least one slot for each thing. With this I can also leave my ranch safely for up to a full day, maybe even a little longer, without worrying about any problems with slimes.

When I started, I did 12 largos in each corral with medium setting auto-feeders and found it wasn't feeding enough; then dropped down to 7 largos in a corral, and after getting most of my corrals down, found it was too much management and thus dropped down to 5 largos per corral with low setting auto-feeders.

At 5 largos per corral, your plort output will be 40 plorts of each type per day.

Also, use the daytime to go out in the range; and nighttime to do all the crop harvesting, feeding, and collection of plorts from the corrals. Don't bother with sleeping, it often leads to various bugs such as disappearing slimes. Once you have your auto-feeders stocked well you will also be safe if you get knocked out.

[BLACK (Akuma)]

Originally posted by Hypsicratea:

According to a guide that I read, if you have the auto-feeder on the lowest setting it will be enough to feed 5 largos, medium will feed 7, and high will feed 10ish. At the lowest setting, you can keep the auto-feeder reasonably filled with just one garden and filling it once or twice a day. Medium and high settings will require a lot more management.

I find it is best to have 5 largos and auto-feeder on lowest setting with just one garden for that corral, which allows me to have enough corrals for largos to put out every type of plort, gardens for everything, and enough silos to have at least one slot for each thing. With this I can also leave my ranch safely for up to a full day, maybe even a little longer, without worrying about any problems with slimes.

When I started, I did 12 largos in each corral with medium setting auto-feeders and found it wasn't feeding enough; then dropped down to 7 largos in a corral, and after getting most of my corrals down, found it was too much management and thus dropped down to 5 largos per corral with low setting auto-feeders.

At 5 largos per corral, your plort output will be 40 plorts of each type per day.

Also, use the daytime to go out in the range; and nighttime to do all the crop harvesting, feeding, and collection of plorts from the corrals. Don't bother with sleeping, it often leads to various bugs such as disappearing slimes.

Wow that sums it up

[ed]

I started out with four Largos per pen, but even on low setting the auto feeder was still wasting a ton of food - like, I would find stuff just rotted on the floor of the pen. I raised it to five, still some waste. Six seems to be the sweet spot. (It's also probably the upper limit in terms of a visually appealing Largo pen where you can actually see your slimes and their expressions.)

I give every pen two toys and most of my largos are half honey though, which are supposedly extra docile. I've seen other people say that half-tabbies are particularly prone to breaking their roof if you have 5+ but my honeycats are well behaved.

My Lab area has two pens with six each of pink+boom and crystal+rad, gave them two toys each too and so far no problems - but I installed a couple of automated water cannons just in case.

(My orchard and grotto are free range fields for honey and phosphor, respectively, so they don't need any care, and the puddles take care of themselves too. My only single slime pen is some pinks in the Lab, but I'm still looking for the sweet spot with corral population vs. how much food the feeder throws out.)

I have one silo just to store excess mangos, I probably have too many tree plots but it's nice to know I can just stop by and pick up an extra 50 if I need to stock another pen of pink slimes or something in the future. Or if I'm gone a while and my slimes have burned through their feeders and need to get back up to full.

NOTE: The next update is supposed to introduce craftable drones to help out with some things around the ranch, so this will probably also help with being able to travel.

[beaver201]

I keep about 7-9 largos per pen on the lowest auto-feeder setting and it seems to work fine if I fill it to the brim with food. Based on the experience of others, that seems odd but I find it works, and there's still some food waste. I will still get one or two slimes that need to be fed manually as I walk by to collect other stuff or toady about, but no major problems unless I get myself knocked out.

[Plural Pellegrina]

It's also worth noting that the slimes will eat less often if there is overcrowding.
You can also put food that is just sitting in the pen back into the auto-feeding to "pause" it's decay, as food does not decay while in the auto-feeder.