Slimes
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FairyRing
Farmer
Have you got a slime egg? You need to get a slime egg, slimes occasionally drop them when killed. In the left hand, upper corner of your hutch you put your slime egg in the incubator there. And a slime will pop out in a few days. You have to get a slime incubator to have outdoor slimes as well.
You can also make slime eggs with enough dropped slime. You need a slime press and 100 slime.
Hope that helps! Happy slimeing.
You can also make slime eggs with enough dropped slime. You need a slime press and 100 slime.
Hope that helps! Happy slimeing.
Hill Myna
Farmer
Hello Uniqua! Welcome to the Forums!
Did Marlon give you a Green Slime Egg? You can put that in the Incubator in the top left part of the screen, as @FairyRing mentioned.
After a of couple days, a Slime will hatch, and... nothing will happen. That's because you need what @Cuusardo mentioned, male and female Slimes. Males have the... thing sticking out of their heads.
To get more Slimes, you'll need more Slime Eggs. There are two ways of obtaining these, one of them is getting them from killing Slimes (after building a Slime Hutch on your farm). Each Slime will have a 1% chance of dropping a Slime Egg of their respective colour.
The other way is to... kill Slimes. Except this time, you're hunting for the Slime item. This can be compacted into Slime Eggs via a Slime Egg Press (25 Coal, 1 Fire Quartz, 1 Battery, recipe @ Combat Level 6). They will come out as a random colour, but Green Slimes Eggs will be the most common.
Once you have a handful of Slimes, they will start breeding, and you can claim the rewards! However, what makes the Slime Hutch especially productive is filling the four trays of water on the right. This can be done with either Sprinklers or by hand.
Every day they have water, Slime Balls (not Slimes, not Slime, different) will start to appear in areas that don't have player-placed flooring. This lets you gather Slime and incidentally Petrified Slime, without killing any of your precious Slimes. Which is ideal!
Hope this helps, please update us!
Did Marlon give you a Green Slime Egg? You can put that in the Incubator in the top left part of the screen, as @FairyRing mentioned.
After a of couple days, a Slime will hatch, and... nothing will happen. That's because you need what @Cuusardo mentioned, male and female Slimes. Males have the... thing sticking out of their heads.
To get more Slimes, you'll need more Slime Eggs. There are two ways of obtaining these, one of them is getting them from killing Slimes (after building a Slime Hutch on your farm). Each Slime will have a 1% chance of dropping a Slime Egg of their respective colour.
The other way is to... kill Slimes. Except this time, you're hunting for the Slime item. This can be compacted into Slime Eggs via a Slime Egg Press (25 Coal, 1 Fire Quartz, 1 Battery, recipe @ Combat Level 6). They will come out as a random colour, but Green Slimes Eggs will be the most common.
Once you have a handful of Slimes, they will start breeding, and you can claim the rewards! However, what makes the Slime Hutch especially productive is filling the four trays of water on the right. This can be done with either Sprinklers or by hand.
Every day they have water, Slime Balls (not Slimes, not Slime, different) will start to appear in areas that don't have player-placed flooring. This lets you gather Slime and incidentally Petrified Slime, without killing any of your precious Slimes. Which is ideal!
Hope this helps, please update us!
nicodeux
Farmer
I have nothing to add regarding the fairly complete posts by Fairyring, Cuusardo and Hill Myna regarding how to fill and use the hutch.
However, if your goal is to get enough slimes to craft oil makers as I understand it, you may want to do your maths first, before using the Slime Hutch as a slime item provider.
You need 50 slimes to craft an oil maker. But to craft a slime egg with a slime press, you need 100 slimes. That's 2 oil makers for a single slime egg.
As you need at least 5 slime creatures in the slime hutch before they start dropping slime balls, this means that you have used the slime items equivalent of 10 oil makers before even starting to produce a single one.
So if you are planning to craft lots of oil makers, using the hutch as a slime provider can be a good idea in the long term (and if your lucky with slimes mating), but if you only want a dozen or so, then I suggest choosing another more efficient route.
With one of my farmers, I also needed lots of slimes in order to press them into slime eggs for my hutch. In order to achieve that, I built fish ponds that I filled with slimejacks. Slimejacks are easy to fish from the Mutant Bug Lair and a fish pond full of them provides 10 to 50 slimes on a fairly regular basis. This way I was able to reliably get slimes without having to (re-)invest part of it in their own production.
imnvs
Local Legend
You need 5 slimes before they produce slime balls. You only need at least 1 male and at least 1 female for breeding. If you're lucky they can start breeding at just 2 slimes.
nicodeux
Farmer
I was expecting this answer at some point. 
Yes, if we are lucky the first two slimes can be a male and a female and they can start breeding right away.
But because I have faced (and not only once) the unpleasant case where my many first slimes were all males and when I finally got a female, she took a looong time before mating with one of the others, I've neglected that option on purpose. Adding randomness on an already random situation when we are trying to plan on things did not look like the best option to me.
Yes, if we are lucky the first two slimes can be a male and a female and they can start breeding right away.
But because I have faced (and not only once) the unpleasant case where my many first slimes were all males and when I finally got a female, she took a looong time before mating with one of the others, I've neglected that option on purpose. Adding randomness on an already random situation when we are trying to plan on things did not look like the best option to me.