Petro Slime

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Dark suspicious type

Eats: Rocks, Ore, Rotten things
Plort Value: 150

Description: A rather shy, hard to find slime. Lurks in dark places so it is easy to not notice one. It's plort is a very useful and is used everywhere as a source of concentrated fuel. May be used in upgraded equipment to reach previously unreachable areas.

Care: Very suspicious and eats slowly. Only eats 1 time every 2 days and will not eat if it notices you around. If it touches any explosion or fire type elements (including prolonged exposure to the sun) it will ignite, exploding into 5 PetroPlorts but dying in the process.

If you do not feed it for a while, it will tunnel away. You will notice it slowly sinking into the ground as it grows hungrier (they tend to stay in one spot and don't move around much so it can sometimes be hard to tell if they are slowly sinking or not). Other slimes can use its tunnel to escape.

Plort uses: Can only carry up to 10 PetroPlorts at a time. Can be consumed to "overcharge" your jetpack for 5 seconds in which your pack lets out short upward propelling bursts every 1 second allowing you to reach higher locations. Additionally during this "overcharge" period, your jetpack does not consume power and causes you to move faster.

Other overcharge possibilities- Vacuum: Enables stronger suction forces extending vac range or enabling you to move heavier things.

Possible look, sketched picture that I reversed colors to look black.

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Sounds good, but I don't know about the overcharge mechanic. I'd say it would improve your Dash Boots instead of jet pack for a while, so there's still a use for jet pack upgrades. Unless the area where they were found in had spots that need to be overcharged to, possibly?

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Well this is basically a "quest item" that you need to get to more areas. Similar to a gordo slime key there are areas maybe unreachable by normal jetpacks that would require this boost

Basically rather than a gordo giving u a key you farm these or explode some to get fuel to jetpack to newer areas.

Idea was to make a plort that was valuable for a reason not just for monetary value