Why Are Your Slimes Escaping in Slime Rancher?

Slime Rancher is a peaceful game of raising happy slimes in their corrals, providing for them so they can provide for you. Having all the slimes around can be a bit of a handful, however, which can be quickly apparent for players when they return to their ranch and they have slimes all over the place, with unwanted largos bumbling around and even the dreaded tarr gobbling up your precious slimes. Why are your slimes escaping in Slime Rancher, and how can you stop it?

Why and How Do Slimes Escape in Slime Rancher?

Slimes have only one need: food. Keep them fed, and they’ll be happy and content and won’t be problematic. When they start to go hungry, however, you’ll notice their little faces drop into starved and agitated expressions, telling you that you’d better feed them soon. Slimes, if not fed, won’t die or despawn, instead, they cause chaos.

You may see slimes stacking on top of eachother, and no manipulation by your vac pac will separate them. Slimes ar playful, and may do this randomly for fun. But when they’re agitated and hungry, they’ll gather into large piles to escape.

By stacking on top of eachother, the hungry slimes will build towers to jump out of their corral, splaying themselves into the ranch. Of course, if three of more slime types are in proximity to each other and there is food about, the devastating tarr could form and destroy your slimy friends, so preventing the slimes from escaping is essential.

Not only that, but slimes may have a certain behaviour that only surfaces when agitated, which could result in escaped slimes causing devastating consequences. For example, the Dervish Slimes will cause huge cyclones to ravish your ranch when agitated, upheaving all of your slimes, food and items. You can only imagine the chaos.

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How to Stop Your Slimy Houdinies

The biggest factor to stop escaping slimes is to feed them regularly, preferably their favourite food. Make sure every corral has a stocked-up food dispenser, allowing your slimes to be placated whilst you’re away.

But not only that, a smart rancher will make sure not to overcrowd your corrals, especially with largos, as slimes are happy creatures that do jump around by default, especially when they are excited, so the food dispenser may cause some slimes to leap into the air. To mitigate this, make sure every corral has high walls and air nets.

Some slimes get agitated more quickly that others, so a music box to keep them placated will do wonders. This is not essential, but very useful, and will help the slimes from escaping if you are low on food.

To mitigate the chaos from an escapee situation, keep your gardens and all food sources away from your corrals, preferably isolated in another biome of the ranch, and equip them with scare-slimes. This will prevent your slimes from eating, which means they won’t produce plorts that causes tarr formation when not supervised.

Difficult to control slimes, such the Quantum Slimes, would be best kept in isolation, such as in the grotto, to stop them from phasing through to other slime enclosures.

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