Pink Slimes are a Rancher's Best Friend

How to run a successful ranch without fuss with the cheapest labor available. You are also free to leave the ranch, and explore without worry. Nice, organized, and easy.

Introduction

This guide is intended to show you how to run an efficient ranch with the added bonus of being able to leave your ranch to explore without worrying about coming back to disaster. You can easily feed your slimes with minimum fuss. You don't have to worry about food selection and mind dumbing maintenance. You will also make enough money to buy what you need and keep your laboratory well stocked. There is no number crunching or figuring out details.

It's all simple bliss.

The concept is simple. Use cheap labor, use cheap food, and produce your product that doesn't drive the market down.

Setup

First, use the eight spots on your starting ranch area. Collect pink slimes, and feed them plorts from the other slimes. Create six largos in each corral. Also, set each auto feeder to the slowest setting. I cannot stress that enough.







In the expanded cave area, create 5 more corrals here. In total, this is enough space for 13 varieties of slimes.







Go to the expansion in the garden area, and create 4 carrot farms. Then go to the docks expansion area, and make 3 more carrot gardens with a pond so you have a place to put some puddle slimes.







Finally, go to the lab. place an incinerator, 3 storage bays, and a farm. You can grow multiple varieties of additional plants here and save the produce in storage at your leisure. You can also change the plot to farm chickens if you wish to store some. Don't forget to store extra roosters if you so desire.

Carrots O' Plenty

So why carrots? Well, 20 are produced at once and are the easiest to vacuum up. And besides, pink largos will eat anything. If you time it right, you can even vacuum up 40 carrots per garden plot. Its very easy to feed your pink largos this way. After several carrot runs, all you corrals will be stocked with 100 carrots with minimum effort. Keeping 6 largos per pen will cut down on waste, and none will go hungry. Yes, you will not produce double plorts, but after some adventuring, your auto plort gatherers will be well stocked.






This will also have the benefit of keeping the market price from dropping like a brick since you won't be overproducing plorts. If you want double plorts, go back to your storage and grab some specialty food. Shoot them into the correct cages when you feel like it.

The Income

The proof is in the slime pudding.





As you can see here, after a worry free adventure exploring the world, I came back and made a nice chunk of cash. My laboratory is also well stocked.

It took less than 10 minutes to collect and sell plorts, and to restock the corrals with sort of juicy carrots.

The laboratory gets stocked over time. Obviously, the totals I have here are not from one run. I usually alternate from stocking plorts and selling them. The cash I made was from one run, which is plenty when I want to buy stuff.

Mix and match however you want. It's your ranch anyway.

Conclusion

Yes, you can argue that there are more complicated ways to eek out every bit of profit, but that would require more planning and maintenance. The thing is, I am never broke and my time is better spent exploring than worrying about details.

This guide is not intended for the 5 day challenge or anything like that. That's a whole different ball game.

To reiterate, here's a list.

1. Carrots are easy to manage and you can stock up quickly and easily.
2. Pink largos eat anything, so no fuss. They usually behave themselves, too.
3. Keeping 6 largos to a corral is easy on the eyes, and prevents starvation and wasted food.
4. You can feed specialty food on a whim if feeling somewhat ambitious.
5. The market prices don't drop like crazy from overproducing plorts.
6. You free from babysitting your ranch, and are free to explore or goof around.
7. It's simple to reproduce largos in case something wierd happens. Just grab more pink slimes.
8. It's easy

[DK]

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[Cheesehead]

It's 2022. This still works fine.

[polarity]

Clustering carrot production into one area, corrals in another, and silos in a 3rd, makes it impossible to use drones to move food to corrals, and plorts to storage, as they can't cross the boundaries between ranch expansions, and won't interact with warp depots.

I think the developers expect players to create self contained areas in the ranch and its expansions, instead of having them rely so much on things produced elsewhere, otherwise drones would be able to move between them.

[An_animagi]

Rn, Im planning on doing a save using this method, and when I get to it, using the drones so I dont even have to touch my ranch!

[Cheesehead]

I wanted to pop in here quick, and say thank you to everyone that commented and supported this simple guide. It's satisfying to see people enjoy it.

[Xenos]

This is definitely a good guide for more relaxed or newer players, but it might become partially nullified in future updates. The devs are planning to add Drones to the Slime Science lab to help automate part of the process. As a person who has EVERY TYPE of Slime in the form of diverse Largos, along with their corresponding favorite foods, that's gonna be a massive help. But that also means that easier strategies like this are going to become less viable compared to other, more profitable strategies.

Although, not tanking the market is a pretty good thing unless you have the sheer overproduction to keep powering through the lack of profit. It is rather amusing to see your largos literally swimming in plorts because you haven't emptied their Plort Collectors in days.

But yeah man good guide.

[neekomoding]

Pink slimes for the win!

[Cheesehead]

Thanks Zombihaus

[Zombihaus]

this guide is awesome

[Cheesehead]

I'll say again, though, that the guide is for running a pink largo ranch with minimum fuss. It's not for min/max playing. Still, the income and resources you get are plenty good enough to fund your adventures. I happen to like my pink largo ranch, and others can try it as well if they so choose. People can play however they want, since they bought the game, and there is no gaming police waiting outside their house.