Slime Rancher Cheats and Tips
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
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Slime Rancher is a first-person, sandbox game about a young rancher called Beatrix LeBeau who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the 'Far, Far Range' where she tries her hand at making a living as a 'slime rancher'. This involves constructing her ranch and exploring the world of the Far Far Range in order to collect, raise, feed, and breed slimes. Slimes are gelatinous living organisms of various sizes and characteristics. Slime Rancher is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Take a look at our tips to get help in the game.
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Stop Slimes from Escaping
If you have slimes continuously escaping you will need to invest in Ranch Plots to manage them. It is essential that you make sure they have high walls and air nets to prevent the slimes from escaping. If you keep your slimes well-fed they will happily stay in their corral. Having loose slimes on your ranch can cause all kinds of problems if they are left unattended.
Farm Food for Slimes
It is essential that you continuously feed your slimes to maintain their happiness and in order to do so you will need to produce a steady supply of food. The best way to solve this problem is to purchase a farm and coop. There are different types you can buy, farms will basically enable you to grow vegetables while the coops keep chickens safe so yo can breed them. The vegetables you grow and chickens you breed are then fired into the pen with the slimes.
Essential Early Upgrades
In Slime Rancher there are various upgrades you can puchase to make the game easier. During the early game when you have more than one type of slime on your ranch it is essential that you invest in the higher wall corral upgrade as this will help prevent them from escaping and making Tarrs. The other upgrade you should consider getting is the plort collector so you don't have to enter corrals to collect plorts. This particular upgrade is especially helpful if you have rock slimes as their spikes will reduce your health if they touch you.
Upgrade your Vacpack
When you begin Slime Rancher you will be equipped with a vacpack. This useful piece of gear is given to you free and will enable you to transport slimes and ports, manage crops, and defend yourself from the dangers out on the range. Try to save as much money as possible in order to invest in the upgrades that are available for the vacpack.
Always Be Prepared when Exploring
It is important that you always pay attention to your surroundings when you are exploring in Slime Rancher so you don't miss out on valuable resources. Whenever you encounter feral slimes make sure you first carefully observe their behaviour so you can best determine how to handle them. It is recommended that you keep one vac-tank stocked with food and purchase the water tank upgrade as soon as have the available funds.
Complete Range Exchange Requests
In Slime Rancher the Range Exchange is a place where you can meet, trade, and befriend other ranchers and by completing the Range Exchange Requests you will not only be able to earn some extra money and resources but it will also enable you to build useful relationships with other ranchers that will enable you to trade resources.
Do Not Put Different Largos Together
One of the most important things you must remember is to never put different Largos together. The reason for this is because if a Largo eats a third type of plort they will turn into a Tarr which is something you must avoid at all costs as a Tarr is a hostile slime that while eat other slimes and replicate. If you discover you have a Tarr in your ranch you will need to get rid of it as quickly as possible by using water.
Slime Rancher FAQ's
Our Latest Questions
| Can you grow Gilded Ginger? |
| No,you cannot grow Gilded Ginger in Slime Rancher. The Slimepedia entry says that a specific biological property of Gilded Ginger makes it impossible to farm in a garden replicator. |
| How do I get gilded ginger and can I grow it? |
| The gilded ginger grows in the glass dessert. Two spawn a day in two of the 71 spawn locations. You are unable to put them in a farm plot without mods. They are needed to get a gold Gordo and are the only thing you can feed it. It takes three gilded gingers to pop a gold Gordo and you also need one to put on the Gordo snare. |
| Is it worth getting the Lab expansion? |
| The Lab, though costing 10,000 newbucks, is very worthwhile. It is necessary for fabricating any slime science gadgets, which can range from teleporters to drones that help you on your ranch to decorations to slime ball hoops. If you want to unlock the Pro Style achievement for unlocking the entire Slimepedia, it is necessary to get the lab. This is because you have to use pumps, drills, and apiaries in different locations to get slime science resources. The Lab expansion also comes with more plots, meaning more profit! Some other gadgets that you can fabricate in the lab are gordo snares (which attract you your own personal gordo) apiaries, pumps, and drills (which give you slime science resources necessary for fabricating countless other gadgets) teleporters, warp depots (used for transporting objects from one location to another, echo nets (used in the ancient ruins to attract echoes) and many more! Overall, though the lab is expensive, it is likely to give you infinitely more profit once you purchase it. |
| Where do you breed chickens and grow food? |
| Use the grassey extention to the ranch for breeding chickens and growing food. |
| Why has my slime got a bloody nose? |
| When a slime has a bloody nose and a frown on its face it indicates they are starving and dying. To save the slime you need to feed it. |
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Achievements & Trophies
There are 31 trophies for Slime Rancher on PlayStation 4.
| Trophies | Award |
|---|---|
| Best of the Worst Place a tarr on the #1 Slime Stage | Bronze |
| Onward... to SCIENCE! Fabricate your first Slime Science gadget | Bronze |
| Carousel Incinerate an elder chicken | Bronze |
| One Person at a Time Join the 7Zee Rewards Club | Bronze |
| Catch! Shoot food into an airborne slime's mouth | Bronze |
| Boop! Let a tabby slime headbutt you right on the nose | Bronze |
| Salad Bar Have 3 different veggie gardens on the Ranch at the same time | Bronze |
| Up All Night Stay awake from 6 AM to 6 AM the next day | Bronze |
| Buck Buck Bagu- Feed 100 chickens to slimes on the Ranch | Bronze |
| Fruit Cocktail Have 3 different fruit trees on the Ranch at the same time | Bronze |
| Transplorter Sell 500 plorts at the Plort Market | Bronze |
| Color Me Impressed Use chroma packs to change the color of the ranch house, tech, and vacpack | Bronze |
| While You Were Away Return to the Ranch after more than 24 hours | Bronze |
| You... Monster! Send an adorable chick to a fiery end, the same place you're now destined to go | Bronze |
| Renewal Start bringing life back to the Glass Desert | Silver |
| Well-Off Rancher Earn over 25,000 newbucks | Silver |
| Hasty Exchange Fulfill a Range Exchange request between Noon and 2 PM | Silver |
| Fireworks Shoot a boom slime largo into the air that explodes before landing | Silver |
| Risky Business Have at least 3 different types of largos in the same corral | Silver |
| Jelly Belly Burst Burst a gordo slime | Silver |
| That Only Works in Comic Books Stand inside a rad aura for at least 15 seconds | Silver |
| Bea the Builder Fabricate 35 Slime Science gadgets | Silver |
| Controlling the Chaos Constrain more than 15 slimes in your vac stream at once while on the range | Silver |
| Ball Pit Jump into a corral containing at least 40 slimes | Silver |
| Rush Plortmaster Reach at least 75,000 newbucks in Rush Mode | Gold |
| She's on Fire! Score 50 points in a single game of slimeball | Gold |
| Diversification Have at least 10 types of largos on the Ranch | Gold |
| Hat Trick Obtain at least 3 gold plorts from a single gold slime | Gold |
| A Quick Newbuck Earn 5,000 newbucks in a single day | Gold |
| The Adventure Continues! Complete Adventure Mode and set out for what's next. | Gold |
| Platinum Platinum | Platinum |
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