Hello everyone, today i'm going to try and help you maximize the money you earn from your wonderful ranch!
Chapter 1 - Getting Familiar with the ranch.Before you get to the slimes, let's find out what tools we have at our disposal.
Around the ranch you'll see 'plots' you should already know what these do, if you don't, what are you even doing here.
Corral - The most important thing you can build on a plot, these will contain your feisty slimes, they can be upgraded to keep in certain types of slimes, or to aid containment of the slimes. You'll generally want to cram as much slimes in as possible, 30 is a number you should never exceed otherwise you may get an unwanted largo or Tarr on your hands, (More info in Chapter 1) 20 maximum for largo's.
The upgrades are as follows.
Higher walls - Higher walls, keeps in bouncier slimes.
Music Box - These calm down the more rowdy slimes on your ranch, useful for upset Tabby's or Largo's
Air Net - Has a durability, however these things are good for keeping in slimes that are not upset, as they will not acidently jump out, they also seem to heal over time if not destroyed, they will also come back eventually if broken.
Solar Shield - Dims the corral, nice for atmosphere and keeping in the Phosphor slimes.
Plort Collector - Every 30 seconds or so of there being plorts on the ground, they will be vacuumed into the collector, it can hold 2 types at the same time for Largo's.
Auto-Feeder - Fill this up with the slimes favorite food, and they'll be fed at regular intervals, you should use this along with the plort collector to gain plorts overnight. But beware, Hen Hen's in the machine may lag the game, as it dispense so fast the slimes are usually satisfied, and also, only use them if you have a large amount of food lying around.
Gardens - You're gonna need veg or fruit for your herbivore slimes, so get ready to farm! You'll generally want two at least. These also include upgrades to scare slimes off or improve production.
Upgrades for the Garden
Scare Slime - Scares away slimes who may want to gobble up your vegetables or fruit for themselves, it is shaped like a Tarr.
Sprinkler - It waters your crops and makes it produces crops twice as fast.
Nutrient Soil - This fertile soil is full of nutrients for your crops, so you'll want this to get maximum harvest for every harvest.
Coops - This place is where you keep the meat of the ranch, you'll keep Hen Hens and Roostro's here for later slime consumption, oh and the slimes eat them live by the way. Place a Roostro and a Hen Hen together in here to breed Chickadoo's to grow new Hen Hens for more slime consumption, you can upgrade this to help the birth of Chickadoo's, or higher walls to stop slimes from getting in and eating your entire coop.
Upgrades for the Coop
Higher Walls - Higher walls
Spring Grass - Plant some lovely grass to attract scatter bugs, which Hen Hen's love to eat, so they'll produce eggs twice as fast. Kind of like Slime favorites.
Vitamizer - Shoot the Chickadoo's with this light and you'll get a Roostro or Hen Hen twice as fast!
Silo - Use this amazing invention to store up to 4 different types of items! Handy to store excess food. You can upgrade this 3 times for up to 4 slots, as they start with one slot.
Incinerator - Use this and you're a heartless monster.
Pond - To contain Puddle Slimes and hold water for use against Tarr's. Cannot be upgraded.
There is also the Overgrowth and Grotto, these areas allow for Free-Range slimes or extra space and resources. The overgrowth hosts a lot of general resources for your slimes, and the Grotto is general "more space" expansion, where
Chapter 2 - Slime TypesBefore you start trying to maximize the ranch efficiency, you should get familiar with each slime, they all have their own unique ways of being a nuisance to you or being taken care of. So let's get started.
I sort these guy's in 'tiers.' Here are the tiers for reference
Pinks - Non-Valuable/Not worth the trouble.Blue's - Decent starting Slimes, replaceable later on, but help make useful Largo's.Bronze's - A bit more rare slimes, found in the Moss Blanket most of the time. They are a bit more interesting then your average slime.Silver's - Rare slimes, highly profitable and useful.
Gold's - Rarest of the rarePlatinum's - Only Golden SlimesPink TierPink Slimes - The basics, you'll find this just about anywhere, you can even find natural Largo's of pink that are hostile all the time when entering new areas. They produce pink plorts which are the least valuable in the game, at only 7 per piece starting value. They can eat just about anything.
Blue TierRock Slimes - The rarest slime of the Blue tier, they are usually already a Largo before you get to them, so if you want one, go to where there are usually Rock Pink Largo's and hurry, if you're fast enough, you'll catch a Rock Slime before it transforms. They prefer a hearty vegetable meal, with a nice side of Heart Beets. Also, these guy's hurt you if they gain momentum before they touch you, so make sure YOU hug THEM first! They produce rock plorts which are the second least valuable in the game, at 15 per piece starting value.
Tabby Slimes - The community favorite, the Tabby slimes, they jump high, grab food and plorts, even if they can't do anything with them, just to play with it. They also are the most friendly slime, they try to boop you 24/7 so make sure you get ready for boop-athon when you raise these guys. These guys prefer to eat meat, with a Stony Hen as their favorite. They spawn in the moss blanket and some areas of the Reef, but they are usually They produce tabby plorts which are the second least valuable in the game, at 15 per piece starting value.
Phosphor Slimes - My personal favorite non-largo slime, these guys fly around at night, and are absolutely adorable, however, they burn up in the sun! To avoid the cute critter's certain demise, house them in the grotto or a solar shielded corral. They are easiest to feed out of the blue tier, with a fruity diet! They prefer Cuberry's. They produce phosphor plorts which are the second least valuable in the game, at 15 per piece starting value.
Bronze TierBoom Slimes - Boom! These guy's will make your ranch cower in fear to contain them! Just TRY to contain 30 exploding slimes! Yeah, it isn't easy AT ALL. But they produce boom plorts, which are quite valuable and worth the trouble they give you, at a 30 starting price!
(If you can't get to the Moss Blanket on day one, they'll be around 50-60 later on!) They eat a meaty meal, with a lovely Briar Hen to top it all off!
Honey Slimes - A lovely little docile slime, they aren't all that threatening, but the plorts are! They taste DELICIOUS, and the slimes agree too! So if you have a largo with a big appetite, you'll have a Tarr on your hands if not watched! The honey plorts are worth 30 at the start, they are also quite useful for Tarr creation. They enjoy some nice fruit, mainly the Minty Mint Mangoes.
Silver TierPuddle Slimes - These guy's are very useful and profitable, stick 8 in a pond and you have alot of plorts on your hands.
Golden TierGolden Slimes - If you see a shiny slime off in the distance, you shouldn't attempt capture, as they will not yield any plorts if you get near, and will quickly vanish. To gain a golden plort (Which starts at 200 by the way! And go up all the way to 600 in some cases!), you'll need to shoot any food at it, and it will refuse to eat it, but will leave ONE plort behind, making them the hardest slime to profit off of.
Other TierThe Tarr - These guys, suck. These guys can rip apart a well made ranch in seconds, as they infect other slimes to form into more Tarr, they damage crops, eat Hen Hens and Roostro's, and eat slimes and you. The eaten slimes are not plorted out into plorts, rather, they are plorted out as another Tarr. The Tarr is born when a largo eats a plorts that is not its own kind. To kill or disable a Tarr's infectivity, simply shoot fresh water at it (Pools come in handy here if you are ranching Largo's.
Here is a terrible diagram.
Chapter 3 - Largo's.Largo's are the first step to creating a maximum efficiency ranch, but you first need to understand a Largo.
A largo is a slime that has eaten a plorts that is not of its own kind, and it fuses into a mix between the two slimes, and they now share factors i'll get into later, but they get bigger and more adorable in the case of Honey Phosphors, which are my favorite kind of Largo.
The Largos when mixed will have these Factor's shared
The Diet - The diets are added together, for example, if a slime eats veg, and another eats fruit, these diets are then changed into a Fruit/Veg diet when one of them becomes a largo of the two. Pink largos will be able to eat everything.
The Favorites - They will now have two favorites, one if one didn't have a favorite.
The Slimology - The appearance is obvious.
The Risks - These guys will share both risks of each slime within the largo, so if you had a Tabby Phosphor, they would be extremely jumped and active, and burn up in sunlight. You'll want to add this as a major condition to your list of a 'good largo' If a slime has 2 risks that help each other, then you don't want it, because it will simply be too hard to take care of. A Boom Tabby for example will jump very high and explode alot, if you want a bad time, don't do that combination.
The Plorts - They plort both plorts of the Largo. Value may be a concern on your list.
Here is what you should keep in mind, in order of priority, when creating a Largo.
Plorts
Risks
Diet/Favorites
Chapter 4 - Places
Hello there everyone, back again to learn about where your cold feet will stand upon? Well look no further!
The Ranch - Refer to Chapter 1
The Dry Reef - Presumably the Hub area of the far far range, in this area you can encounter Pink, Rocks, Tabby's and Phosphor slimes, however Rock and Tabby's spawn further in into the area, so you shouldn't look in the first section. In the area we have a Pink and Phosphor Gordo which yields slime keys, which can be used to access other areas for new and better slimes. There is also a Tabby Gordo, which is blocking a Teleporter, a quick way back to the ranch. You can also find Heart Beets, Cuberry's, and Stony Hens, all favorite foods of the Rock, Phosphor and Tabby, respectively.
You can find the Heart Beets to the left of the entrance from the Ranch, on top of a ledge, there is also an underpass under this area, which has more in case you're running low. There also some Cuberry trees. where the Pink Gordo is, nearby the Tabby Gordo, and one on the path to the Moss Blanket. Stony Hens are found by the Tabby Gordo, but some could also be found if you jump off the ledge to the left of the tunnel path, which is connected to the main valley. (You should know these places).
http://i.imgur.com/PdEwfzh.jpgThe Ledgehttp://imgur.com/yYspqhJ.jpgThe Heart Beats behind the ledge.http://imgur.com/Hfpncg4.jpgThe underpasshttp://imgur.com/MHnhfc5.jpgThe Tunnel Ledgehttp://imgur.com/aeKxWCo.jpgThe Tunnel ledge next of Stony Hens (To the right)The Pink Gordo is quite an easy find, you don't need my help for that. The Tabby Gordo is between the Moss Blanket and the Dry Reef (The bridge area). The Phosphor slime is a bit more complicated, but is still an easy find, if you jump down the ledge to the left of the tunnel path, instead of heading right like a normal person, head left, there is a small passage where you can find the big guy.
http://i.imgur.com/4VpQDi8.jpgWhere the Pink Slime Gordo would be.http://imgur.com/LQpaMvc.jpgThe Fatty Tabbyhttp://imgur.com/tdBzXnH.jpgThe Phosphor Gordo GrottoThe Moss Blanket - Coming Tomorrow
Chapter 5 - Conclusion
Soon.