40 Fun Facts About Slime Rancher

Which common slime in Slime Rancher is the only one that will eat fruit, veggies and meat alike?

Pink slimes pay for that easy diet with the lowest-priced plorts on the market, though it makes them the easiest species to ranch.

Which winged, glowing slime in Slime Rancher appears only at night and vanishes if left in sunlight?

Phosphor slimes can be kept safely in a corral fitted with a Solar Shield, or in the permanently dark cave expansion called The Grotto.

Which hostile black slime forms in Slime Rancher when a largo eats a plort it does not produce?

Tarr devour other slimes and multiply as they feed; one splash of water destroys them by day, but at night it takes two.

What does BOb, a Slime Rancher trader who looks like slimes stacked in a trench coat, always request?

Chickens are nearly all BOb can talk about, and the trader is badly disguised as a human rancher with the help of a fedora.

What is the name of the rancher the player controls in Slime Rancher and its sequel?

Beatrix LeBeau once ran a shop back on Earth, and letters she receives on her new planet mention a pet cactus adopted there.

Which rare slime in Slime Rancher produces the most valuable plorts and flees when it spots the player?

Gold slimes drop a plort when struck by a thrown piece of food, then flee and vanish moments later.

Which currency does the player earn by selling plorts at the Plort Market in Slime Rancher?

Newbucks pay for corrals, ranch expansions and Vacpack upgrades, and the prices that earn them shift from one in-game day to the next.

Which new location, reached by boat after a mysterious letter, is the setting of Slime Rancher 2?

Rainbow Island gives the rancher a new base in an abandoned conservatory, replacing the ranch of the first game.

What happens when a slime in Slime Rancher is fed its favorite food rather than an ordinary meal?

A slime given its favorite produces twice as much, which is why ranchers plant gardens to match the species they keep.

Which former owner of the ranch leaves notes around the world for the player to find in Slime Rancher?

Hobson Twillgers let the ranch fall into disrepair while he chased adventure, and his notes slowly reveal his love for fellow rancher Thora West.

Which San Mateo indie studio, founded in 2014, developed and published Slime Rancher?

Monomi Park was co-founded by a lead developer of the online game Spiral Knights after he left its studio, Three Rings.

Which game engine, later reused for the sequel, was Slime Rancher built in?

Unity also runs Slime Rancher 2, which adopted the engine's High Definition Render Pipeline and so needed a new approach to its graphics.

From which viewpoint does the player explore the open world of Slime Rancher, vacuum nozzle in hand?

First-person play keeps the Vacpack's nozzle on screen as the main way of touching the world, sucking items in and firing them back out.

Which console received Slime Rancher on the same day as its full PC release in August 2017?

Xbox One players got the game at its 1.0 launch, a year before PlayStation 4 owners and four years before the Switch version.

Who sends Starmail from Earth to the rancher throughout the Adventure Mode of Slime Rancher?

Casey is the special someone the rancher left behind, and the game deliberately never reveals their gender.

What are the giant, immobile slimes that burst into smaller ones when fed enough called in Slime Rancher?

Gordos found in the wild also leave behind a slime key or reveal a teleporter, opening new areas or shortcuts across the map.

Which Slime Rancher game mode stops largos from eating plorts, so its hostile black slimes never appear?

Casual Mode also makes feral slimes less aggressive, removing the stomp attack they use in the standard game.

Which Vacpack upgrade lets the rancher in Slime Rancher fly for short bursts at the cost of energy?

Jetpack flight is needed to reach The Moss Blanket by normal means, and a later thruster upgrade cuts its energy use by 20%.

How far from Earth is the planet of Slime Rancher, a distance echoed in its credits song?

1,000 light-years separate the Far, Far Range from Earth, and the song over the end credits takes its title from that gap.

Who directed Slime Rancher after seven years leading development of the online game Spiral Knights?

Nick Popovich was an artist and designer rather than a programmer, so he enlisted Mike Thomas to handle the code.

At what time of the in-game day do plort prices change at the Plort Market in Slime Rancher?

Midnight resets the market, and every plort the rancher sells pushes that type's price down, halving it in the worst case.

Which Earth company sends ranchers to the Far, Far Range and stamps its logo across the ranch in Slime Rancher?

7Zee Corporation also runs a rewards club that opens on Day 7, selling prestige upgrades for ever larger sums.

What is the only thing a Fire Slime will eat in Slime Rancher, made by putting food through an incinerator?

Ash collects in a trough at the incinerator's base, which doubles as the only habitat where fire slimes survive on a ranch.

What do Glitch Slimes turn into when the player leaves the virtual world of The Slimeulation in Slime Rancher?

Bug reports are traded to the scientist Viktor Humphries, and that trade is the only way to obtain Manifold Cubes.

What must the player fire at Quicksilver Slimes to feed them in Slime Rancher's racetrack minigame?

Electricity gathered from generator nodes overcharges the slimes, making them briefly harmful to touch as they race around the track.

Which area owned by Mochi Miles is the only known home of Quicksilver Slimes in Slime Rancher?

Nimble Valley is rigged with warp satellites that beam every plort straight into the rancher's tank, sparing her the vacuuming.

Which zone, home to the first slimes most players catch, lies directly outside the ranch in Slime Rancher?

The Dry Reef is a wind-swept land of dusty crags and rocky cliffs where carrots, pogofruit and hen hens are easy to find.

Which Slime Rancher zone can at first be reached only by a teleporter in the far north of the Ancient Ruins?

The Glass Desert starts out barren: its fountains and oases are empty and must be restored before water, food and new slimes appear.

Which foul-smelling fruit does Ogden Ortiz ask ranchers to gather from The Wilds in Slime Rancher?

Kookadoba cannot be grown in a garden, so three of them are swapped at Ogden's Retreat for one block of Spicy Tofu.

Which veggie, common in The Indigo Quarry, is the favorite food of Rock Slimes in Slime Rancher?

Heart Beet replaced the Prickle Pear, which had been the species' planned favorite in early versions of the game.

Which sweet fruit, found deep in The Moss Blanket, is the favorite food of Honey Slimes in Slime Rancher?

Mint Mango is described in the game as perhaps the sweetest fruit ever discovered, with a minty aftertaste that leaves its fans with fresh breath.

Which corral upgrade in Slime Rancher puts a force barrier over the top to stop slimes flying or jumping out?

Air Net barriers can take a few hits before needing to recharge, and they are a must for winged slimes that try to fly away.

Which slime in Slime Rancher leaves ghostly copies of itself and can swap places with one when agitated?

Quantum slimes' ghost copies are known internally as qubits, and a splash of water destroys them and briefly stops new ones forming.

Which slime in Slime Rancher turns invisible before it pounces and creates largos that are always born feral?

Hunter slimes are one of four feline species in the game, and their feral largos can be calmed with food or a Taming Bell.

Which slime in Slime Rancher blushes and stops making plorts when more than three other slimes are close by?

Puddle slimes live on water alone, and a Rubber Ducky toy lets them tolerate one more neighbor before shyness sets in.

Which ancient slime species survives only as feral largos in The Wilds in the first Slime Rancher?

Saber slimes were believed to be long extinct, and a pure one could not be found until Slime Rancher 2.

Which production company was reported in August 2023 to be developing a film adaptation of Slime Rancher?

Story Kitchen is run by Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg, and the deal was first reported by Deadline.

Which facility near the ranch entrance lets the player make daily trades with other ranchers in Slime Rancher?

Range Exchange trades begin at noon on Day 2, when veteran rancher Thora West first makes contact by Starmail.

What is the name of the in-game encyclopedia that logs each new discovery in Slime Rancher?

Slimepedia entries start out mostly locked, and each one opens with a pop-up the first time the rancher meets something new.

Slime Rancher's developer announced in January 2022 that the first game had sold more than how many copies?

5 million copies capped a steady climb: the game had already passed 800,000 sales by May 2017, months before it left early access.