New to hutches please tell me everything and are you team fence or free roam

[Yogurt_The_Cow]

So I don't have the slime charmer ring but I was wondering if I could get it with an Item code.


And yeah also I'm new to slime houses. (Im calling it that because my autocorrect thinks it's hitches.)
Please post a photo of your layout and tips are welcome too. Don't forget to vote in the poll.

 

[Yogurt_The_Cow]

 

[Cuddlebug]

So I don't have the slime charmer ring but I was wondering if I could get it with an Item code.

You can, it's [520] .

I don't build Slime Hutches, so I don't have a layout for them. Just learned, breeding slimes seems to be a tricky thing. Good luck btw.

 

[Terdin]

The time I made a slime hutch, I fenced them in on about a third of the space. On top I had the slime incubators with a walkway so I could access them and hatch more eggs into their area. With the auto-attack on, I didn't want to risk killing any of my slimes without intending to.

 

[Yogurt_The_Cow]

The time I made a slime hutch, I fenced them in on about a third of the space. On top I had the slime incubators with a walkway so I could access them and hatch more eggs into their area. With the auto-attack on, I didn't want to risk killing any of my slimes without intending to.

Yea

 

[Jayamos]

Fence those slimes! They will swarm you otherwise and you don’t want a kill-or-be-killed situation in your hutch. Also, put flooring down inside the fence so the slime balls end up outside it. I have a chest and slime egg press in the hutch, outside the fence.

I have a couple of layouts, will post if I get the chance. The wiki has a good layout.

I’m curious about your layout, @Terdin, because I need to incubate a bunch of slimes soon.

 

[Terdin]

I’m curious about your layout,

I based it on https://stardewvalleywiki.com/File:Simplest_Slime_Hutch_design.png
Only difference is that I just put the fence straight down from the incubators, and without checking it I think I made it 4 tiles wide. Not sure if I used a piece of fence or a 4th incubator for that. I don't remember what fencing I used. Possibly iron fence, since I knew I needed to make that anyway if I wanted to reach perfection.

 

[Jayamos]

I based it on https://stardewvalleywiki.com/File:Simplest_Slime_Hutch_design.png
Only difference is that I just put the fence straight down from the incubators, and without checking it I think I made it 4 tiles wide. Not sure if I used a piece of fence or a 4th incubator for that. I don't remember what fencing I used. Possibly iron fence, since I knew I needed to make that anyway if I wanted to reach perfection.

Ah, thanks. So you can use an incubator as fencing. Good to know.

 

[Yvi]

I have gotten the hutch before the slime ring multiple times, and I have never fenced the slimes. I just run really fast lol. And if I get really cornered I just kill some. The ones I raise never seem to have many hit points. But honestly I've never come close to dying from slime hutch slimes. It's mostly just annoying if I get debuffed because then I can't run around destroying slime balls as fast.

 

[nicodeux]

So I don't have the slime charmer ring but I was wondering if I could get it with an Item code.

And yeah also I'm new to slime houses. (Im calling it that because my autocorrect thinks it's hitches.)
Please post a photo of your layout and tips are welcome too. Don't forget to vote in the poll.

Well, like many things in Stardew Valley, the answer will depend on what you intend to do with those slimes.

In all cases, I advice against letting slimes roam freely, unless this is precisely what you want. Couple of reasons while slimes should be fenced:
- Slime charmer ring or not, slimes will still try to attack you and 20 slimes in an area like the hutch will swarm you and greatly impair your movements in a most annoying way
- If you decorated the hutch or placed machines in it, attacking slimes will keep on removing items that are in their path to try to reach you (does not apply to fences though)
- Without Slime charmer ring, you will suffer damage and you health can drop quickly with red, purple or tiger slimes
- With auto-attack on, you may accidentaly kill slimes and even many of them

Regarding hutches layout, it depends on what you want to do with the slimes.

If your goal is only to get slimes eggs, a layout like the one on the wiki is a good option: you can incubate eggs safely, you never come in contact with slimes and they are contained in the smallest area required.

If like me, you want the slimes to live their happy slime lives in the hutch, you need to give them more space, while finding a way to limit the issues that I mentioned above

In this hutch (I have currently 4 of them in this save file), I use fences to delimit a free area for the slimes and all of it has flooring. This means that slime balls will always spawn out of the fenced area. I use two entrances to access the slimes area: I enter from one side (usually the right one), this attracts most of the slimes there, I do what I have to do (incubate egg, decorate, kill some slimes on purpose...) and I leave by the other exit, while most of the slimes are still occupied behind. The sas on the left side is usually in case one slime managed to follow me.

 

[Jayamos]

I have died from purple slimes in the slime hutch. And, yes, I felt really stupid.

That said a no-fence slime hutch would make it easier to run if you don’t mind killing a few on the way and would be pretty workable if you’re only raising green or maybe blue slimes.

 

[Hollyfox]

I'd say fence if you don't have the slime charmer ring just because it's a pain having to avoid all the slimes.