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The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 2:20 pm
by SpiralRancher
Whenever I feel I've gotten a grasp of how things work, the game just goes ahead to do whatever and impress the heck out of me.

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Everytime.

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Sometimes at my expense.

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Sometimes at its own expense.

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...I think.

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Sometimes I just don't know anymore.

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I just know that I appreciate every one of these moments.

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Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:45 pm
by Nummles
I have those moments a lot. I like playing early access games, because once the game is way along into development and near completion you don't get too many moments like these c:

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 8:10 pm
by SpiralRancher
IT KEEPS HAPPENING

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Then the moment I go picking up plorts to keep the reef tidy, in the distance...

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Where is it going like this? Wait a...UH OH.

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After a moment of containing my emotions, I let them all out while resuming my plort cleaning.

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But the day had only just begun.

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10/10.

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I can't think of a better way to escape Tarrs. Boom Slimes sure ain't stupid.

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...well, at least one of them anyway.

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IT. KEEPS. HAPPENING.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:18 pm
by SpiralRancher
I spent some long time watching the coop relentlessly to cleanly witness a Hen laying an egg. And while I succeeded in recording not one, but TWO eggs being laid out...

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...I'm still not sure if it was from the Hen at all. But I didn't get to ponder on that for long, because my batch of pink slimes that I moved next to the coop recently reacted to the matter less tactfully.

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You probably didn't notice, but the plort you see right there used to be a Roostro twenty seconds earlier.

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What I did NOT notice amidst the monstrosity of the slimes' hunger at the time is that one little slime that didn't even care to get out, he's just trying to give his buddies a helping hand.

I'm not sure if I should be terrified by that more than the creeping menace atop of it.

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Then I went ahead to apply what little slime science I gained up until now before the slimes applied themselves further.

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I think I've started to get a grip on how slimesplosions work now. It's a good light for pioneering some theoretical slime physics.

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And this is a good reminder that I have yet to be mad at this game. Good job, Nick.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:34 pm
by ArtsyTroll
I've never had this happen to me, oh my god. Have I not played long enough?

I honestly hope they keep some of this stuff at least, its silly and in a way, makes the slimes even better and kinda gives them a sort of 'silly/derpy' characteristic.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:44 pm
by SpiralRancher
ArtsyTroll wrote:I've never had this happen to me, oh my god. Have I not played long enough?

Playing a game and playtesting it aren't exactly the same thing. And I haven't even playtested nearly enough.

乁( ̄へ ̄)ㄏ

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:46 pm
by Wonda
The slimes tower over you

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Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:50 pm
by SpiralRancher
Wonda wrote:The slimes tower over you

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But they do not tower high enough above me and my job to ranch and apply slime science.

There's always one of them that looks at me very discriminately.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:32 pm
by CrazeePi
How do you get any of that to happen?

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:46 pm
by SpiralRancher
CrazeePi wrote:How do you get any of that to happen?

That's what I asked myself for most of these. But the explosions of slime mostly have to do with shooting them all outside your general proximity in the same general direction ideally in the sky, then approach the point where they vanished from your range of sight. The one in my third post should clue you in more.

The results should variably be stunning, to say the least.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:48 pm
by SilvieSkydancer
CrazeePi wrote:How do you get any of that to happen?


It just...happens, really. I got it to happen right in front of my face earlier today.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:13 pm
by SpiralRancher
Coming up next, something radically different...

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Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:24 am
by Cherriey
SpiralRancher wrote:I just know that I appreciate every one of these moments.

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Golf! A new Slime Rancher minigame! lol Can you imagine? It would be super easy to have a mini golf island somewhere. Mwhwhahah!

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:19 am
by Heather
I'm really enjoying this thread :)
Haven't seen the spinning Pogofruits stack before, intriguing.
LOL @ SR golf :)

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:47 am
by SpiralRancher
Alright, this might get very technical for some, but bear with me here. This started with the crazy idea of trying to put things behind the second slime gate and see what would happen. Then I remembered the ceiling hole covered by an invisible wall/floor/ceiling. Things got really juicy as a result.

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You can see a few Pink Boom Largos I clipped through the gate earlier down there. But more importantly you can see the density of the blockade here. It's impossibly impossible for a human-sized rancher to cross this cavity here.

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I only started this experiment with Pogofruits. It was only a matter of time until I tried other things along with it. And by things, I mean live experiment volunteers.

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The important thing to notice here is that the spinning stack also reflects the thickness of the floor/ceiling.

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It's also important to notice how dense it is. Adding more to the stack requires pushing it down the hole...

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...or else it will push things right back.

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Most ressources' size cleanly affect how much of the stack it will take up. Chickadoos here take the least amount, making it easier to squeeze them through.

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Here you can see a Roostro and a Hen Hen at the bottom. A new ecosystem is being made and developing as we speak.

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Not to mention that the stack of spinning birds is not exempt of this. It also evolves on its own.

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And with that, I'll leave the rest for everyone's enjoyment.

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And this is how I gave the "Under Construction" signpost in front of the Slime Gate a new meaning.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:44 am
by Nunn
This is madness!!!

Madness? This is SLIME RANCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:49 am
by TheGreciansHousehold
Oh. So I'm not the only one who stuffs chicks down holes.

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 3:01 pm
by LovelyDoxi
This is the thread you go to if you have had a bad day lmao

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:43 pm
by SpiralRancher
Bloody flying blue monkey heck, it's been close to three months since I've last touched this spot and these guys are STILL actively inhabiting this place.

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Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:59 pm
by asdfghjklinkin
Save them...

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:59 pm
by SpiralRancher
Starting off the day with a crude sight of a poorly maintained stack of food...

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...and an equally satisfying disposal of the former. Which means...

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...that it's time to resupply my stocks!

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This is the kind of horror a Barnacle from Half-Life would approve.

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I swear the tree trunks are hollow and are connected to a tunnel from the Slime Sea in order to pop these out.

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Said trees slightly distracted me from looking at the new landscapes in the horizon.

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But this strangely large formation of Pink Tabby largos down there prompted me to dramatically drop in for context-sensitive investigating.

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The aftermath of this spontaneous interruption also demanded further diagnosis. And apologies, because I obviously interrupted its fixation on the beet.

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Later that day, the lingering effects of the psychological trauma were filed as conclusive proof that the heart beet's high-pressure pulses were directly linked to the stress level of the slime in question.

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COME ON AND SLAM AND WELCOME TO THE JAM

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Further reminder that I love this game.

asdfghjklinkin wrote:Save them...

But they are safe from everything.

Just your average spammy post to remind people of this.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 7:55 pm
by SlimeCrafter
YAy a SPaMMINF BYUGNO OJNBFTUB HAHAHAHA

Re: The journey to understanding the world of Slime Rancher.

PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:32 pm
by WOLRUS
This is insanity!!! You are crazy!!! I cannot wait for the day when Monomi Park unlocks that gate and you can walk in and clean up your spinning chickens and the other messes you made down there.