Largo

[Limmin]

(No, not the villain from "Never Say Never Again")

Do Largos have any use? I created about 4 of them by newbie accident, and don't know what to do with them.

a. I hear from one source that if you feed them, they eventually create new smaller versions of the slime they originally were.

b. Another source says feed them enough, and they explode.

So if they're "parent" slimes they have a definite use. But if they're just food eaters / potential Tarrs unless they explode first, then your accidentally creating one constitutes a gameplay error, right?

[Dee Twenty]

Both sources are incorrect, gordos will explode into a bunch of normal sized slimes once fed 50 of whatever they eat, they also cannot be created and are only found in the wild, currently only three exist, two of which also will drop a slime key.

Largos, when fed, will create one of each plort that their component slimes would create, so a pink tabby would give both a pink and tabby plort, and if fed the favourite food of either slime will instead produce two of each plort, for a total of four, which means five largos can produce just as many plorts as ten purebred slimes.

They can also make it much easier to deal with carnivorous slimes, currently tabbies and boom slimes, by combining them with honey slimes or other slimes that eat fruits and vegetables, since a single garden plot can easily outproduce even multiple chicken coops.

[Limmin]

Ah, so there are both Gordos and Largos, they aren't just different names for the same thing. Thanks for this very helpful info!

My disorganization / newbieness led to an infestation of Tarr/ Rainbows just now, but that was OK as I wanted to rebuild the farm from ground up anyway. I picked them up by turn and just pitched them into the sea behind the farmhouse. I suppose this could be the easiest way to dispose of any unwanted slimes!

[Cpt_Waterbubble]

If you have Honey-Boom Largos you can get around 100 newbucks with only ONE food! (depend on the price, I also recommend a garden with mint mango, corral with high walls, air net and autocollector. Ideal is 6 Largos.)

[Xakorik]

I'm doing 12 largos of 3 hybrids, I'm getting ALOT of plorts, if I don't sell them each day my auto collector will fill up

[Hatze]

Thing is with Largos is that they're... well, large. They take up around 4x as much corral space as a regular slime, so you can't keep as many of them. However, these lower numbers also means less feeding. I recently got 16 Crystal slimes, and although they produce plorts much faster tham my other largos, they take a lot more food because of their numbers. So if you want to conserve food, make Largos, and if you want fast profit, keep regulars.

For instance, during a regular in-game day, my Crystals will have created around 50 to 60 plorts, but around a quarter of them are starving, and due to the auto-feeder being set on fast to compensate, it's often empty. Meanwhile, my 8 Boom-Rads only make around 20 of each, resulting in only two thirds of the Crystals' production. However, even setting the auto-feeder to low, there's always one or two uneaten Oca-Ocas, and they're always full.

[Sammarald]

Originally posted by Cardboard:

Thing is with Largos is that they're... well, large. They take up around 4x as much corral space as a regular slime, so you can't keep as many of them. However, these lower numbers also means less feeding. I recently got 16 Crystal slimes, and although they produce plorts much faster tham my other largos, they take a lot more food because of their numbers. So if you want to conserve food, make Largos, and if you want fast profit, keep regulars.

For instance, during a regular in-game day, my Crystals will have created around 50 to 60 plorts, but around a quarter of them are starving, and due to the auto-feeder being set on fast to compensate, it's often empty. Meanwhile, my 8 Boom-Rads only make around 20 of each, resulting in only two thirds of the Crystals' production. However, even setting the auto-feeder to low, there's always one or two uneaten Oca-Ocas, and they're always full.

Why did you have to necro a post that's a year and a half old? Couldn't you invest some effort into looking at the date this was posted in before replying?