Good day, everyone! I'm Charm, a Puddle Slime obsessed slime rancher. Seeing as the game is so new and there isn't much known about the rare little puddle slime, I have been spending a lot of time experimenting with and studying these sweet little guys. Since Puddle Slimes have gotten increasingly more stable with the last version update (0.2.2), I began catching and studying them exclusively. I thought I would share some of my findings here for those who are curious to know more about them. If anyone else has any research data on Puddle Slimes, I would love to hear about your findings!
My main curiosities that I set out to uncover the mystery of were as follows: How many Puddle Slimes spawn in the wild during one day's cycle? Do they have a specific respawn time? How much water can a pond hold? Is there any type of "warning" for when the pond is getting dangerously low that could jeopardize Puddle Slime safety? How many Puddle Slimes can be put into one pond before they start despawning? How many Puddle Slimes can be safely and profitably put into one pond? Below you will find the answers to these questions with adorable pictures and more text. ;)
Question: How many Puddle Slimes spawn in the wild during one day's cycle?
Answer: From my experience, I have seen a maximum of four spawn in a one day cycle, with one spawning in the tiny pond and three spawning in the bigger pond near the end of the Moss Blanket.
Question: Do they have a specific respawn time?
Answer: As best as I can tell, they do not have a specific respawn time. I spent several in-game days standing by the different ponds doing nothing but clearing the area (to avoid The Tarr forming and eating my precious Puddle Slimes, as traumatically happened once before my very eyes T_T) and staring at the pond waiting for the Puddle Slime to spawn. As another note, it's interesting to see from my collected data that is appears Puddle Slimes "prefer" to spawn in the morning or day more so than at night.
Here's a little snippet of my research data about respawn times in the two different locations:
Small PondDay 26: Puddle Slime spawned and taken at 23:57 (right before roll over to day 27).
Day 27: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 12:20.
Day 28: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 10:10.
Day 29: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 17:20.
Day 30: On this day I did an experiment where I didn't remove the other Slimes and Plorts floating around in the Pond to see if it would effect respawn rate at all. To my surprise, with a lot of items floating in the pond the Puddle Slime did not spawn at all on this day.
Day 31: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 4:52.
Day 32: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 11:40.
Day 33: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 7:51.
Day 34: Redid the "lots of stuff in the water" experiment again, once again, the Puddle Slime did not respawn during this day.
Day 35: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 7:33.
Day 36: Puddle Slime respawned and taken at 8:13.
Bigger PondDay 31: Puddle Slime spawned and taken at 1:30, a 2nd Puddle Slime spawned and was taken at 4:17, a 3rd Puddle Slime spawned and was taken at 17:36.
Day 34: Two Puddle Slimes spawned and were taken at 9:45, a 3rd Puddle Slime spawned and was taken at 12:09.
Day 35: Two Puddle Slimes spawned and were taken at 13:14.
Day 36: Two Puddle Slimes spawned and were taken at 16:00.
Question: How much water can a pond hold? Is there any warning for dangerously low water levels?
Answer: From full to entirely empty, a pond can hold 33 shots of water. Once it is empty, it takes 33 shots before it becomes entirely full again. As the pond gets exceedingly close to empty (around 8 shots from being empty) you can begin to see the bottom of the pond, which is a valuable warning to refill it before your Puddle Slimes face grave consequences. Puddle Slimes can still easily survive in this level of low water without any issue, but a bit lower and they start despawning. For safety, I wouldn't recommend letting your ponds get any lower than this without refilling them.
Question: How many Puddle Slimes can be put into one pond before they start despawning?
Answer: It looks like 30 is a safe number for Puddle Slime storage in a single pond. When I put in one extra, making a total of 31, the extra one began climbing on top of the other Puddle Slimes which put it in danger of despawning from being out of water.
Question: How many Puddle Slimes can be safely and profitably put into one pond?
Answer: While a Pond can safely hold 30 Puddle Slimes, it is more profitable to keep a number closer to 10 Puddle Slimes per pond. This is because when the pond is too crowded, the Plorts they spit out tend to disappear as soon as they spawn from not enough space that they end up hitting the side of the pond and despawning. Also, when sucking up the Plorts spit out by 30+ Puddle Slimes in one Pond it's possible to lose some of the Plorts AND some of the Slimes from them colliding into each other in a big mass. Not good at all!
Other fun screenshots and random data from my Puddle Slime studies!
Seeing as I had one extra Puddle Slime in a pond by itself at my last logout, I decided to put a few random friends in with him so he wouldn't be lonely. ;) Puddle Slimes are happy to share their pond with other floating friends. The Pink Slime stayed in wonderfully without escaping (though it kept eating the Puddle Plorts as soon as they spawned),meanwhile the Tabby Slime eventually climbed out of the pond with it's super-high jump and went to go stir up some mischief.
I find it amusing that the Slimepedia states that Puddle Slimes are shy, yet whenever I encounter one in the wild they always swim right up to me. They are honestly quite outgoing and friendly! :P This screenshot was also part of an experiment to see if a Boom Slime (or any type of Boom Largos) could bounce a Puddle Slime out of the water with its explosions and/or damage it. I tried moving both around to various different locations to see if it made any difference if they were close up against the wall or anything. As far as I can tell from my research, Boom Slimes
cannot bounce Puddle Slimes out of the water or damage them. The Puddle Slimes were always safe and smily as ever right after a Boom Slime explosion.
During my research, I was often clearing the entire area of all Slimes/Plorts/Food to not interfere with my Puddle Slimes respawning and during that time I threw many Tabby Largos off the cliff behind the small pond area. Even so, they would occasionally swim back over to me and look up at me adoringly, imitating the happy smile of a Puddle Slime, as if begging me to love them. I refuse!
I also encountered many nightmarish moments during my Puddle Slime research that I feel all other Puddle Slime ranchers can relate to. This is a screenshot of the exact moment I sucked a Puddle Plort out of a Pond that flew past me and landed by the neighboring pond, a split second before it vanished. :( Still not as sad as my Puddle Slime that got eaten by a The Tarr before I could reach it, but close.
With that, I leave you with a picture of 20 Puddle Slimes being utterly adorable in a moonlit pond. Could there be anything more magical? I think not!