Android No hutch, but a slime escaped in the night

[espacesinfinis]

The issue: I haven't got a hutch. Haven't made an incubator or egg press. I do have the monster barrier down on my four corners farm, via the new game setup options rather than sorcery. Yet a slime just escaped into the night.

I have noticed that sometimes ones I run by instead of dispatching don't despawn overnight, but this message is a first. Haven't ever gotten it when I've had a hutch, either.

I'm running the unmodified, up to date Android version, in English. Can't actually find the eloping jelly yet.

 

[zack123]

That message usually shows up when you incubate slimes outside the hutch and some disappear overnight. Don't know if because the slimes are spawning naturally and don't despaw that it counts as the same as the slimes that are incubated outside.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Just to add on to what zack said, when they 'escape' it means they run away and just disappear forever, it's effectively the same as one of your animals getting eaten by wolves if you lock them outside