Slime Rancher is a game about making a successful ranch full of slimes so that you can harvest their plorts. There are 16 slimes to capture in the wild (six of which are dangerous), and even more to be encountered in general. In addition, almost every slime type can be combined by feeding a small slime a plort from a different slime species. Once combined, slimes will produce plorts of both types and take on interesting looks.
Keep in mind that slimes like Party Gordo, Lucky Slime, and Gold Slime can't be captured or raised on your ranch. Let's take a look at each slime and where to find them.
Updated On February 13, 2022 By William Quick: With Slime Rancher 2 scheduled for release later this year, there's still time to fully explore the first game. There are lots of Slimes to capture or simply find here are their locations.
Where To Find The Boom Slime
- Locations: Moss Blanket, Indigo Quarry, and Glass Desert
Boom Slimes are interesting because they repeatedly explode, sending themselves into the air. This can damage your character and will also send you flying.
Ensure that their pen has a top to prevent them from escaping.
Where To Find The Crystal Slime
- Locations: Crystal Volcano and Ash Isle
Crystal Slimes are found in specific locations in the Indigo Quarry. These slimes are also dangerous as they cause crystal spikes to explode out of the ground.
Have water on hand to wash away the crystals they produce.
Where To Find The Dervish Slime
- Location: Glass Desert
Dervish Slimes can be found flying around the Glass Desert, where they cause tornadoes to pop up.
Restoring the multiple Oasis located around the area will help Dervish Slimes to spawn more frequently.
Where To Find The Fire Slime
- Location: Glass Desert
As the name implies, these slimes are made of fire, and running into one is going to cost you some health. Fire Slimes can't be housed with other slimes as they will make them jump, but they can be cooled down with water.
Fire Slimes will need to be kept in the trough of an incinerator.
Where To Find The Honey Slime
- Location: Moss Blanket
Honey Slimes are rather friendly, but due to their honey bodies, other slimes around them will try to quickly eat their plorts, transforming them into half honey Largos or Tarr Slimes.
Honey Slimes can cause Tarr slimes very easily so keep them contained.
Where To Find The Hunter Slime
- Location: Moss Blanket and Glass Desert
Hunter Slimes are harmless but do possess the trait to turn invisible. The danger comes in when another slime eats their plort as all largo Hunters are feral and will attack you.
Largo hunters are difficult to keep track of so beware when creating any.
Where To Find The Mosaic Slime
- Location: Glass Desert
These slimes both attract other slimes and are able to produce glints that catch the surrounding floor on fire.
Be sure to have water nearby when trying to deal with Mosaic Slimes.
Where To Find The Phosphor Slime
- Location: All over the Far, Far, Range at Night
Phosphor Slimes are extremely common and appear all over the island at night. To keep these slimes alive, you will need to keep them in the dark or put a sun-blocking shield on their coral.
Putting these slimes in the cave saves you the upgrade cost of a sun-blocking shield.
Where To Find The Pink Slime
- Location: Everywhere
Pink Slimes are the first slimes you will see in the game and are literally everywhere. You can literally walk out of your ranch, and the first thing you will run into are Pink Slimes.
Beware of pink slimes sneaking into your ranch!
Where To Find The Puddle Slime
- Location: Ring Island, Moss Blanket, Ancient Ruins, and Indigo Quarry
Puddle Slimes are a special type of slime that lives on top of the surface of the water. These slimes will need an all-water pen in order to thrive and can't be near more than three other slimes because they are adorably shy creatures.
There's a farm expansion with a secluded water pen perfect for these slimes.
Where To Find The Quantum Slime
- Location: Ancient Ruins and Glass Desert
These slimes are hard to keep in their pens as they can easily teleport all over the place if agitated.
Check out our guide on how to control these sneaky slimes.
Where To Find The Rad Slime
- Location: Indigo Quarry
As the name implies, these slimes are made up of radiation. Standing close to them will make your rad exposure go up quickly and eventually start dealing damage to your character.
The radiation effect stops when they are vacuumed up, but they shouldn't be allowed to wander around your ranch.
Where To Find The Rock Slime
- Location: Dry Reef, Indigo Quarry, Ancient Ruins, and Glass Desert
Rock Slimes are another harmful type of slime that is a bit aggressive. They will try to tumble into you on sight, so avoid them or suck them up with your vacuum quickly.
These are likely to be the first dangerous slimes you encounter so keep an eye out for those spikes in the early game.
Where To Find The Saber Slime
- Location: The Wilds
Saber Slimes are the strangest slime that you can keep as you can never have a small one. Instead, you can visit the Wilds once unlocked to collect Saber plorts. These plorts can then be fed to other slimes to make the Saber Largos.
Feeding Saber plorts to pink slimes is the easiest option to get a Saber slime.
Where To Find The Tabby Slime
- Location: Dry Reef, Moss Blanket, Ancient Ruins, and Glass Desert
Tabby Slimes are another common slime that can be found hopping around a good portion of the Far, Far Range. These slimes will steal food and can jump higher than other slimes in the game.
Upgrade the tabby slime pen as soon as you can, or they will get into your food supplies.
Where To Find The Tangle Slime
- Location: Restored Oasis Locations in the Glass Desert
These slimes can cause others to start sneezing and will steal nearby food if they become hungry. They are found across the glass desert.
Tangle Slimes won't appear until you restore at least one Oasis in the Glass Desert.
Special Slimes
In addition to the slimes you can capture and raise at the ranch, there are some special varieties that have a chance to spawn in certain areas. Although you can't always take them back to your Ranch, it's worth it to look for them when you're out in the field.
Where To Find Quicksilver Slimes
- Location: Nimble Valley
These slimes are known for racing around the area and generating plorts from activity. Keep in mind that their plorts can only be stored in the Augmented Vacpack, and you'll have to trade them to Mochi Miles rather than on the Plort Market.
They eat electricity but if you feed them, they'll become harmful on contact!
Where To Find Gold Slimes
- Location: Various Locations around Far, Far Ranch
These sparkly slimes produce the most valuable plorts on the market. If you spot one, make sure to keep your distance and feed them food from afar.
Feed them Gilded Ginger, and they'll produce five plorts at once!
Where To Find Largo Slimes
- Location: The Wilds and Danger Zones (feral) or whenever a Slime eats a Plort different from its own
Largos are the unusual result of a Slime eating a different Slime's plorts. This makes them larger and able to produce multiple types of plorts.
Be careful when keeping them at your Ranch. If it eats another plort that it doesn't produce, it will turn into a hostile Tarr!
Where To Find Gordo Slimes
- Location: Designated Areas around the Ranch, on Gordo Snares at Gadget Sites
Gordo Slimes are recognizable for their large size and their inability to move. Instead, you need to keep feeding them until they burst into new slimes, crates, and Slime Keys.
Gordo Slimes that are caught on Gordo Snares will not drop Slime Keys.
Where To Find Glitch Slimes
- Location: The Slimeulation
These troublesome Slimes like to cause problems by disguising themselves as other Slimes and even as objects. They don't produce plorts, so they act as pests.
A Glitch Slime in disguise will show no emotion.
Where To Find Lucky Slimes
- Location: Various Locations around Far, Far Ranch
Taking on a form similar to Tabby Slimes, the Lucky Slimes take after the very cat they're copying. Instead of producing plorts, they'll produce coins when fed!
These Slimes produce a jingling sound when they're nearby.
Where To Find Party Gordo Slimes
- Location: A Random Location in Far, Far Ranch during the weekend
As opposed to Gordo Slimes, Party Gordo Slimes have much more energy with much less appetite. After being fed ten items, they'll burst into Pink Slimes and drop a rare Ornament as well as eight Party Crates!
Only one will appear per weekend so be on the lookout.
Where To Find Twinkle Slimes
- Location: A Random Location in Far, Far Ranch during Wiggly Wonderland
These magical Slimes will only appear in December. They're known for singing harmoniously before bursting and scattering Chimes around the area.
Upon bursting, they create a mystical two-way teleport between their location and your Ranch which lasts until midnight in real-time.