by Kataztrophie » Fri Apr 21, 2017 6:50 pm
So, one thing in the development roadmap is an improved skybox with weather effects. We have a slime that relies upon the night to make it's appearance, so having a slime that relies upon rain to come out would make about as much sense as phosphor slimes do. Also, logically, if it starts raining, that should kill all the tarr that are above ground and exposed to the rain. So, shouldn't there be a balance of danger for ranchers? Queue the thunder slime.
Slimepedia
Rain, rain, come today, bring a thunder slime my way
Slimeology:
Thunder slimes come out when it rains on the range, bouncing around on the wet ground. Thunder slimes have electricity flowing through their slime, and can be easily located by the thunder sound that comes from discharging this electricity.
Rancher Risks:
The thunder slime has the ability to be dangerous. It will occasionally discharge the perpetually building electricity in its body to the tallest object near it. Occasionally, this object is a rancher, who is mildly injured by the slime.
Furthermore, thunder slimes, like phosphor slimes, have special needs above that of a typical slime. A thunder slime and it's plorts, when not kept wet, will vanish. This could mean the loss of an entire corral of thunder slimes. Ranchers must add a sprinkler upgrade to corrals to keep these slimes from disappearing.
Plortonomics:
The stability of these plorts is debatable. It has successfully been used as an electricity source in a lab, but not before giving several researchers the worst hair day of their life. At research continues on how to have these plorts as a *safe* energy source, the demand for them is ever increasing.
Slimes gotta eat, right?
Cloudmelon
Type: Fruit
Favored by: thunder slime
Deposit a cloudmelon into a garden's depositor and you'll grow some cloudmelon vines of your own. This crop will last for several harvests.
When ranchers first experienced the hot, hot summers in the Far, Far Range, they immediately longed for the crisp watermelon of home. Luckily, an early rancher found a plant much like it, but with bands of white and light grey, reminding her of a cloudy day. Prized for the cool flavor on a hot summer day, the cloud melon has spread and grows near all watery places in the far, far range.
With the release of this slime, there would of course be some slime science objects to go with it.
Lightning rod (slime science utility)
Function: Serves to attract the lightning from thunder slimes (rather than having ranchers get struck) It has roughly the range of a hydro turret.
Recipe: 20 pink plorts, 10 thunder plorts, 5 hexacomb, 5 spiral steam, and 5 indigonium.
Decoration: Colored plasma balls
These would function the same way slime lamps would, only with those electric balls that have electricity that follows you when you touch it. Each would have it's own color. The recipe would be the same as with slime lamps, but with thunder plorts in the place of phosphor plorts. The designs for these would be found in new treasure pods across the far, far range.
It's toy would be something like a cloud pushlie or one of those sticks that sounds like rain when you turn it, only maybe in ball form.
One thing I mentioned earlier in this is that you would need a sprinkler for them to stay wet. This is on par with the phosphor slime needing a solar shield and air net to keep them from escaping.
Thoughts? Questions? Comments?