Feeding schedules for mixed slimes Help

[Pilgor]

I have a very mixed ranch. I have rock tabbies, honey tabbies, pink rad, phosphor tabbies, boom tabbies, honey phosphors, and hunter tabbies. I don't know if there's a schedule really to feed all of them, But I hate to see their hungry faces or to overfed them, cause I don't wanna run low on supplies. So if anyone has a handy schedule of feeding time they feed their slimes to keep them happy can you please share it with me? My slimes are my little pets and I wanna be good to them. I know they are digital characters, but their smiles are so sweet. I just have to play with them to see their slimes :3 Cause their slimes make me smile :D So please, any helpful rancher would be kind enough to share their feeding schedule for their slimes with me, I'd appriecate it.

I have four of each slime I mentioned above. They are all in their own corrals with their own kind. So I shouldn't fear a tar outbreak, unless a hunter tabby gets mad & breaks out.

[Sammarald]

I usually do it decently enough so my slimes rarely get hungry and I can go travel outside for a bit long.

For my veggie and/or fruit eating slimes, I make a single garden with their favorite food that has both Mineral Soil and Sprinkler upgrades (You will get 15 every 16 in-game hours, max. 4 harvests per planting) and every 3 days (or when growing time ends) I replant all of them in a minute.
Only with meat eating slimes, I make a coop (one or two) with all upgrades so chickens breed and grow up quickly.

My feeding schedule goes like that - when a harvest happens after 16 hours, I quickly get food from gardens and go feed it to veggie or fruit eating slimes, and after that I go to my coops and feed chickens in it to slimes I "assigned" for each coop. If there's not enough chickens, I go to the Overgrowth and get a couple of chickens to not let them starve.

If you end up using my method, you'll more than likely accumulate in corrals of fruit/veggie eating slimes excess amounts of food, since on average every day a slime will require 4 snacks to be always happy (might require more if it's hungry), that means your slimes will require 16 snacks a day, and on average every day you should get from gardens 22 bits of food.

I'm happy with it and it does it's job good enough, so if you want to use this method, do it.

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by EmeraldPlay:

I usually do it decently enough so my slimes rarely get hungry and I can go travel outside for a bit long.

For my veggie and/or fruit eating slimes, I make a single garden with their favorite food that has both Mineral Soil and Sprinkler upgrades (You will get 15 every 16 in-game hours, max. 4 harvests per planting) and every 3 days (or when growing time ends) I replant all of them in a minute.
Only with meat eating slimes, I make a coop (one or two) with all upgrades so chickens breed and grow up quickly.

My feeding schedule goes like that - when a harvest happens after 16 hours, I quickly get food from gardens and go feed it to veggie or fruit eating slimes, and after that I go to my coops and feed chickens in it to slimes I "assigned" for each coop. If there's not enough chickens, I go to the Overgrowth and get a couple of chickens to not let them starve.

If you end up using my method, you'll more than likely accumulate in corrals of fruit/veggie eating slimes excess amounts of food, since on average every day a slime will require 4 snacks to be always happy (might require more if it's hungry), that means your slimes will require 16 snacks a day, and on average every day you should get from gardens 22 bits of food.

I'm happy with it and it does it's job good enough, so if you want to use this method, do it.

Thank you EmeraldPlay :D I didn't think that slimes averagely speaking usually take 4 times a day :D Thanks for letting me know that. I maxed out all my coops and gardens, & have some extra storaged food for my slimes. But I never noticed that I could get like 4 harvests out of one planting or that maxing out the coops would make the chickens gorw faster. Thank you for all this wonderful advice :D I'll definitely try to keep up with feeding my slimes 16 times a day :3 I love seeing my slimes so happy :) Good luck ranching to you! :D

[Rustoration]

the main problem with having more than one corral of a shared slime type is it takes so long to sell the plorts. i typically feed them every day before i go out exploring and no more just to keep up with plort production as all my largos are hunter atm. otherwise i'd simply feed them in the morning before i leave, and again when i get back from the field.

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by Rustoration:

the main problem with having more than one corral of a shared slime type is it takes so long to sell the plorts. i typically feed them every day before i go out exploring and no more just to keep up with plort production as all my largos are hunter atm. otherwise i'd simply feed them in the morning before i leave, and again when i get back from the field.

Yeah in the mornings & evenings are great feeding times :D And trust me, I feel your pain with how long it takes to sell the plorts. I have 8 corrals in total. I usually try to collect their plorts before they get over 50 & all at the same point in time. It usually takes a day or night to sell all the plorts, even later when the plort collectors have more than 50. But I love this game :3 The slimes are so cute X3 They make me smile :D

[Rustoration]

what we really need are plort markets in the other expansions. though atm i only actually have corrals in the main area. just hook the vacpack to a wireless port market thing to sell automatically and we'll be set. though i have to say, it's rather tough keeping the 2 meat-only largos fed when my chicken area is also a free range for hunter slimes lol. i just shot 50 roostros, 50 briars, and 50 stonies on the middle platform so hopefully they'll stay there long enough to breed. i think the rule of 12 only applies to being inside a coop so it might work out idk.

[SuperSi]

I make sure I have at least one vegetarian slime in each Largo Hybrid simply because you get much more fruit and vegetables out of one farm than you do from one coop. One farm per corral of 10 largos seems to work well for me. Also, the automatic feeding upgrades you can get seem to feed the slimes too often which wastes food so i just hand feed them

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by Rustoration:

what we really need are plort markets in the other expansions. though atm i only actually have corrals in the main area. just hook the vacpack to a wireless port market thing to sell automatically and we'll be set. though i have to say, it's rather tough keeping the 2 meat-only largos fed when my chicken area is also a free range for hunter slimes lol. i just shot 50 roostros, 50 briars, and 50 stonies on the middle platform so hopefully they'll stay there long enough to breed. i think the rule of 12 only applies to being inside a coop so it might work out idk.

Cool. :D Yeah its annoying to have to run back to the plort market machine every time. Someone else suggested gaving robots in the game, programmed to sell the plorts that they get from the corrals. That would be handy too. It can be lonely, on the ranch alone. Nice job with your chickens & roostros. I use the main area & the cave expansion for my slimes. They are in corrals for everyone's safety. I hate Tarrs. I have several mixed slimes, so it'd be a bad idea for them to free roam unfortinately. :( Yeah I heard of the rule of 12 for the coops. The problem is that the coops are making hen hens. I don't get roostros raised in the coops. :( It's annoying to go out and steal the roostros from their spawning points, but I've been doing that the whole time. I have two rock slimes in the Overgrowth, they eat the extra carrots. Thanks for commenting :D Good luck with your ranch.

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by SuperSi:

I make sure I have at least one vegetarian slime in each Largo Hybrid simply because you get much more fruit and vegetables out of one farm than you do from one coop. One farm per corral of 10 largos seems to work well for me. Also, the automatic feeding upgrades you can get seem to feed the slimes too often which wastes food so i just hand feed them

Yeah, I'm loaded on veggies and fruits right now :) For all my veggie and fruit tabbies or phosphors. I have 8 corrals, and 4 slimes in each corral. And I have 4 coops. Yeah, I never like the autofeeders. For me personally, I felt I bonded more with my slimes when I feed them from my gun rather than the feeders on the corrals. Their slimes are so cute X3 I love them all :3 They are so positive (most of the time). I love this game came into my life :D

[Rustoration]

i actually never figured out a good way to properly farm chickens for optimal production. i've been told roostros take 1/3rd the amount of chickadoos a hen hen takes before they turn into elders so i've been using that ratio. but actually, the 12 chicken limiter is onlt for grown ones. so maybe having 11 total would make a lot more and then just take out the extras when they grow up. sometimes with chicks though, i get nothing but roostros. i think there was a glitch before where wild chickadoos would sometimes always be roostros when shot back out. i never looked into it though. also, i find multiples of 3 are the magic number. 3 puddle slimes per pond, 6 largos per corral, or 12 normal slimes per corral. its as much as can comfortably fit in a space without there being so many that they cant get to their own food. and i dont really have to worry about a surplus of food.

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by Rustoration:

i actually never figured out a good way to properly farm chickens for optimal production. i've been told roostros take 1/3rd the amount of chickadoos a hen hen takes before they turn into elders so i've been using that ratio. but actually, the 12 chicken limiter is onlt for grown ones. so maybe having 11 total would make a lot more and then just take out the extras when they grow up. sometimes with chicks though, i get nothing but roostros. i think there was a glitch before where wild chickadoos would sometimes always be roostros when shot back out. i never looked into it though. also, i find multiples of 3 are the magic number. 3 puddle slimes per pond, 6 largos per corral, or 12 normal slimes per corral. its as much as can comfortably fit in a space without there being so many that they cant get to their own food. and i dont really have to worry about a surplus of food.

Thanks for the help :D I'm sure I'll figure how to trigger roostro production eventually :D I will try your way, tho I don't think I'll be patient enough to wait for my chickadoos to age into adults. I'm bad with math so I don't think I understand what you answered with, I'm sorry. Are you say to have 3 roostros per coop? Puddle slimes are shy even with each other. I'm not sure how you manage to keep 3 puddle slimes and have them produce plorts. I used to have puddle slimes but I could only have 2 in one pond. over 2 puddle slimes, and they wouldn't plort anymore. I keep 4 largos per corral. I used to keep 6 largos per corral, but the booms were added & the rads were too. So 6 per corral didn't seem safe to me anymore. And I'm bad with feeding all my slimes as food is made, so I store food. :( it's probably a stupid system to store extra food but I don't know any other way to do it.

[Rustoration]

oh slight mis-information, roostros take x3 the amount of chickadoos as hens before going elder. got it a bit backwards there. and storing food is good if you have extra. otherwise they'll expire and it'll just be a waste. i always keep a silo copmpletely full of every slime's favorite harvest for the times inbetween crop expiration when there's nothing left to actually feed my slimes with and of course to always have more to replant. puddle slimes say in the slimepedia that 3 is the limit and now actively show that they're too shy to preduce plorts by them blushing when too many other slimes are around. (i'm honestly tempted to overcrowd them though just cuz that's adorable <3) boom slimes don't seem to explode nearly as much anymore, at least when well fed, and the music boxes may work better now, though i have no official confirmation on that. as for rad slimes, don't forget you can null their auras briefly (i think for about 20 seconds?) by splashing water on them. but also it's good to keep them in a corral where you can have some good distance to suck out the plorts. take note of where the auto collectors are before putting any rads in and maybe keep rads and booms farther away from other corrals just so they dont hurt you while tending to your other slimes.

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by Rustoration:

oh slight mis-information, roostros take x3 the amount of chickadoos as hens before going elder. got it a bit backwards there. and storing food is good if you have extra. otherwise they'll expire and it'll just be a waste. i always keep a silo copmpletely full of every slime's favorite harvest for the times inbetween crop expiration when there's nothing left to actually feed my slimes with and of course to always have more to replant. puddle slimes say in the slimepedia that 3 is the limit and now actively show that they're too shy to preduce plorts by them blushing when too many other slimes are around. (i'm honestly tempted to overcrowd them though just cuz that's adorable <3) boom slimes don't seem to explode nearly as much anymore, at least when well fed, and the music boxes may work better now, though i have no official confirmation on that. as for rad slimes, don't forget you can null their auras briefly (i think for about 20 seconds?) by splashing water on them. but also it's good to keep them in a corral where you can have some good distance to suck out the plorts. take note of where the auto collectors are before putting any rads in and maybe keep rads and booms farther away from other corrals just so they dont hurt you while tending to your other slimes.

So 3 or 6 chickadoos before a roostro turns into an elder? Sorry, I'm so dumb with math. Thanks :D AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I didn't know the puddle slimes blush now! How cute X3 Tho I think it's weird that puddle slimes purr. It scared me the first time I heard my puddle slimes purr. Like, I got teleported back to the main ranch & heard a group of purring on my left. The closest plot was a pond that had puddle slimes in it. I jumped when I first heard it XDD I didn't know I could get my rad slimes wet & that'd would make their radioactive aura smaller for a little while that's cool :D Thanks for that! I don't like boom slimes :( They are so explody! To me, they are the most dangerous slimes so far. So they are in the back of the grotto in a corral to themselves. I even have to collect their plorts from the collector at a distance. I don't know if they have like self destruct group mentally. But from I've noticed if there's a boom slime that explodes near other boom slimes, soon they'll all be exploding. I'm lucky when they don't explode their plorts out of their corral. Yes, I'm scared of the boom slimes I have. But I'm alright with the rad slimes :D Their effect is easier to escape from lol. I haven't spotted any exploding patterns tho. :( Maybe I should try to watch out for exploding patterns. Would you wanna see my ranch? I could take some screen shots of my ranch. You could help explain making roostros better if I got visuals for you to see what I see. Did that make sense?

[Sammarald]

Oh, about the chicken aging process, it goes like this:
A hen can produce six eggs before becoming old.
A roostro can breed eighteen chickadoos before becoming old.
If your ratio of hens:roosters was 3:1, and took all chickadoos before they grow up, every chicken in the coop will become an elder.

[Rustoration]

yea as emerald said. (it's PrismSlime from the MP forums btw, hi lol) that's what i've been told at least. and i'm still trying to understand the mechanics on chickens a bit myself. but i'd be more than happy to see some screens!

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by EmeraldPlay:

Oh, about the chicken aging process, it goes like this:
A hen can produce six eggs before becoming old.
A roostro can breed eighteen chickadoos before becoming old.
If your ratio of hens:roosters was 3:1, and took all chickadoos before they grow up, every chicken in the coop will become an elder.

So to make more roostros, do I out number the hens in the coops with roostros or what?