My Ultimate Ranch Layout
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 2:35 pm
Every since I started playing this game I have spent a lot of time testing concepts and ideas on how to best set up my ranch for maximum plort creating, selling and newbucks making. I also wanted it to be easily accessible from one area to another for maximum speed.
This is the current result of my experimenting. My goal was to utilize every catchable slime in the game, every plot and gadget spot necessary in my ranch to accomplish it. Sadly, in my opinion, some of the gadget spots are either not convenient or not enough in some areas (the main area mainly) but I did what I could with what I had so the end result is not what I would call perfect but close enough.
I put teleporters in every expansion except for Monchi's Manor and Ogden's Retreat because their teleporters were convenient enough not to have to waste gadget spots. This way I can move around my ranch faster plus I put one on opposite ends of the ranch (The Docks and The Grotto) in case I needed to get from one side to the other faster. I have my reasons why it works. This allows me to setup all my drones to drop plorts into the market (links) while wasting little time between activations as soon as it hits midnight. Actually 30 game minutes before, enough time for the drones to grab plorts from the silos before the market changes and drop them just after.
I also placed teleporters towards the middle of each Wilderness area allowing me to spend less time reaching the back sides. Every teleporter (except the one that connects The Docks and The Grotto) has a Warp Depot near them in case I have an extra item I can't carry. It happens a lot more often than you can imagine, specially in the Glass Desert thanks to the Gilded Ginger. I wasn't able to set up every Warp Depot next to each other at the ranch but they are all in the main area and convenient enough to be useful.
My drone locations are set up so as to be able to get to them fast when entering the areas from any entrance. I'm also able to water most of them with a single shot of water in each area except for the ones in The Grotto (Not a big deal there).
My Market and Refinery Links are next to the silos in every area for easy access and now that the Drones can drop plorts into the Refinery Links it's even better.
As for my slimes I set them up as follows:
1) Each largo was created specifically to avoid having to maintain chickens. This made it easier to feed them and save money on Chicken Coops.
2) The Largos were placed together in each area based on what they ate. Veggie eaters with veggie eaters and fruit eaters with fruit eaters. This made it easier to program the drones to a single type of food and not have to manually feed them or have to reprogram the drones to feed different corrals. The only exception are the Fire slimes in the Overgrowth area. The feeding drone has to be reprogrammed from time to time because there are no gardens there in order to have 3 incinerators. Because this area has carrots and pogofruits that grow naturally plus the chickens I simply reprogram the drone to pick different ones up to feed the incinerators from time to time. Even then I am forced to collect the extra fruits and veggies from other areas from time to time and store them in the silo in this area to help the drones maintain the incinerators. It's the only thing I can't fix but its not entirely bad considering everything else works just fine.
3) I placed the Quantum/Crystal largos in The Grotto because the cave keeps them from running loose all over the range. I keeps them in a confined area.
4) The Dervish/Hunters are also in The Grotto because of the tornadoes. The cave keeps the mess they make to a minimum, confined. They are also on the opposite end of the cave to avoid the tornadoes dropping plorts in the Quantum/Crystal corral to avoid Tarrs. It's not always perfect, if the Quatum/Crystals get out at the same time the tornadoes are making a mess then Tarrs will likely happen but like I said rarely. But I have a Super Hydro Turret in the Grotto just in case.
5) The Tangled/Mosaic largos are in the main area far away from the other 2 corrals because of the Tangled tentacles that can reach things outside the corrals. This is just in case a plort from the other corrals somehow got out and the Tangled/Mosaic managed to grab it and turn into a Tarr. The Rock/Pink largos have been known to roll hard enough to knock one out of the corral from time to time. No need for Hydro Turrets here.
6) The Boom/Honey plorts are necessary for gadget building so its convenient to put them in The Lab area.
7) The Pubble in The Docks make sense, specially thanks to the extra free range pond there. Since they don't need to be fed I can use one drone to collect plorts from the ponds and the other from the free range pond.
8) And to get the most expensive plorts I used Monchi's Manor and Ogden's Retreat to keep more Tangled/Mosaic largos to maximize newbucks acquiring.
Oh, and I put a Gold Gordo at the entrence just because it looks cool there. Let me know what you think about my setup. And if you have any questions please ask. If you have suggestions they are welcome as well. I am always looking for ways to improve my setup.
This is the current result of my experimenting. My goal was to utilize every catchable slime in the game, every plot and gadget spot necessary in my ranch to accomplish it. Sadly, in my opinion, some of the gadget spots are either not convenient or not enough in some areas (the main area mainly) but I did what I could with what I had so the end result is not what I would call perfect but close enough.
I put teleporters in every expansion except for Monchi's Manor and Ogden's Retreat because their teleporters were convenient enough not to have to waste gadget spots. This way I can move around my ranch faster plus I put one on opposite ends of the ranch (The Docks and The Grotto) in case I needed to get from one side to the other faster. I have my reasons why it works. This allows me to setup all my drones to drop plorts into the market (links) while wasting little time between activations as soon as it hits midnight. Actually 30 game minutes before, enough time for the drones to grab plorts from the silos before the market changes and drop them just after.
I also placed teleporters towards the middle of each Wilderness area allowing me to spend less time reaching the back sides. Every teleporter (except the one that connects The Docks and The Grotto) has a Warp Depot near them in case I have an extra item I can't carry. It happens a lot more often than you can imagine, specially in the Glass Desert thanks to the Gilded Ginger. I wasn't able to set up every Warp Depot next to each other at the ranch but they are all in the main area and convenient enough to be useful.
My drone locations are set up so as to be able to get to them fast when entering the areas from any entrance. I'm also able to water most of them with a single shot of water in each area except for the ones in The Grotto (Not a big deal there).
My Market and Refinery Links are next to the silos in every area for easy access and now that the Drones can drop plorts into the Refinery Links it's even better.
As for my slimes I set them up as follows:
1) Each largo was created specifically to avoid having to maintain chickens. This made it easier to feed them and save money on Chicken Coops.
2) The Largos were placed together in each area based on what they ate. Veggie eaters with veggie eaters and fruit eaters with fruit eaters. This made it easier to program the drones to a single type of food and not have to manually feed them or have to reprogram the drones to feed different corrals. The only exception are the Fire slimes in the Overgrowth area. The feeding drone has to be reprogrammed from time to time because there are no gardens there in order to have 3 incinerators. Because this area has carrots and pogofruits that grow naturally plus the chickens I simply reprogram the drone to pick different ones up to feed the incinerators from time to time. Even then I am forced to collect the extra fruits and veggies from other areas from time to time and store them in the silo in this area to help the drones maintain the incinerators. It's the only thing I can't fix but its not entirely bad considering everything else works just fine.
3) I placed the Quantum/Crystal largos in The Grotto because the cave keeps them from running loose all over the range. I keeps them in a confined area.
4) The Dervish/Hunters are also in The Grotto because of the tornadoes. The cave keeps the mess they make to a minimum, confined. They are also on the opposite end of the cave to avoid the tornadoes dropping plorts in the Quantum/Crystal corral to avoid Tarrs. It's not always perfect, if the Quatum/Crystals get out at the same time the tornadoes are making a mess then Tarrs will likely happen but like I said rarely. But I have a Super Hydro Turret in the Grotto just in case.
5) The Tangled/Mosaic largos are in the main area far away from the other 2 corrals because of the Tangled tentacles that can reach things outside the corrals. This is just in case a plort from the other corrals somehow got out and the Tangled/Mosaic managed to grab it and turn into a Tarr. The Rock/Pink largos have been known to roll hard enough to knock one out of the corral from time to time. No need for Hydro Turrets here.
6) The Boom/Honey plorts are necessary for gadget building so its convenient to put them in The Lab area.
7) The Pubble in The Docks make sense, specially thanks to the extra free range pond there. Since they don't need to be fed I can use one drone to collect plorts from the ponds and the other from the free range pond.
8) And to get the most expensive plorts I used Monchi's Manor and Ogden's Retreat to keep more Tangled/Mosaic largos to maximize newbucks acquiring.
Oh, and I put a Gold Gordo at the entrence just because it looks cool there. Let me know what you think about my setup. And if you have any questions please ask. If you have suggestions they are welcome as well. I am always looking for ways to improve my setup.