If you’re farming slime balls, the witch cursing your slime hutch won’t matter, but you can also kill the slimes inside for their drops, which are based on color! It sucks to have a hutch full of purple slimes stop giving you iridium when you thin the herd…
The moment I realized the potential of Slime Hutches I've been building them on each and every farm - so I'm thrilled to know that now the building will twke less space on my farm 🤑
I already love farming slimes, so having hutches was already on the table; they're good for fueling a slime shed or outdoor pen, which doesn't have the 20-slime limit! The hutches are a good producer of eggs, which can start off a much bigger enlosure! Slimes also roll for color hue when they breed, making a rainbow pen/shed/greenhouse a fun choice if you don't mind having to kill them every so often! So glad the hutches are smaller in 1.6 though, absolute game-changer!
I love my slime hutch and slime pets. I always decorate the inside really nice. I have the slime charmer ring too. However, if you've received a frog trinket from 1.6, make sure you don't bring your frog in the hutch with you, or it will eat your slimes😄
Good to know on the frog trinket! I have not tested all the trinkets with slimes in the slime hutch. My magic quiver trinket doesn't hurt my slimes, but it's good to know to be cautious with other new trinkets!
Great video! I'll probably be building a hutch on my farm now. I think it's worth mentioning that purple slimes drop iridium ore, so keeping them purple can be a big deal if you plan to kill them. Also, the slime charmer ring can be used to avoid slime damage and status effects! Potentially worth keeping it in a chest near your hutches, especially if you are going to be killing the slimes.
Great video! Wholesome, fun and informative. I really like your presentation style :) Just subbed and all the best with your channel (I'm sure it will grow in leaps and bounds).
For my v1.5 Combat XP Only run a few months back, I built a lot of the old sized 1.5 hutches and found out how much fun they were. There were a few quirks back then like slime eggs exploding off the screen and being lost (I think your movement/momentum gets added on collection) but it was a solid passive income for that run's rules. I had enough that making 3 or 4 slime eggs a day was pretty easy) I also found out that if you stay inside the building, the slimes will reproduce more often, letting you fill it up to 20 much faster, but at the cost of doing other things. (They seem to check for a mate at 10 after every hour, keep them in a confined space and it will probably be more successful.) Slimes also grow up faster if you hang around.
A very good mid game money maker once you have a slime hutch is reseting a slime ingested floor in the mines, with a burglars ring I have gotten 17 slime eggs from drops in one day with a very basic setup of galaxy sword, the aforementioned burglars ring, and some spicy eele and coffee. So all in all even with just green slimes it's very profitable because you make roughly 10k in a single day from green slimes, and if it's later level slimes like purple you can get over 100k gold easily with very little effort
[1] if you want a safe place to farm "slime" material, farm slimes for combat exp/achievement/slime charmer ring, and a place to store tiger slime (farm them for $gold$). [2] you need material to get it started/recipes/slime press, a weapon to kill slimes, sprinkler to keep troughs watered without hassle, and space to place the structure down. (Wicken statue vs witch curse) [3] summary: what do you want? $$$ or aesthetics (achievement can be gotten passively or purposely in a controlled environment)
honestly as far as money making this is just for fun, eggs are not effected by any perks as far as price goes but honestly if you farm them for the intresting drops only worth while ones would be purple and tiger, i can get like a whole stack of iridium on a good cavern day so i do tiger for that cool ass hat i usually wear the pan on my head for efficiency and not a single hat has made me consider to switch untill i learned of the tiger hat, so im going to grind the hell out of that.
Someone got into slime breeding and made slime hutches extremely profitable by having white slime offspring that have a high drop of diamonds when killed. Thats a lot of work... But the idea is good. So Imo, slime farm is most useful OUTSIDE the slime hutches, where you can earn exp and have more than 20 continually breed and can be regularly slain for drops.
For example , you can have a small coal farm by breeding black slimes. You can get iridium, iron, gold, copper , hardwood , coal, stone, refined quartz, wood, diamond, prismatic shards, slime eggs, and lots of minerals that sell well with gemologist profession.
I've kind of wanted to try that, but it seems like such an ambitious goal to go through all the breeding and sorting. Maybe someday I'll give it a shot! Thanks for watching!
I think it's worth it to build one so you have a chance to get slime egg dropped in combat, but it isn't worth it to actually raise them because the slime press rarely produces eggs that aren't green or blue.
Tbh I think the hutch looked better when it was larger. I wish we got a change to the breeding instead. Like theres slimes which drop stuff based on colour such as pure white slimes dropping diamonds, which is cool, but the breeding is so annoying that its not worth it
Yeah, as far as I know, they don't currently work for slime balls, but having auto grabbers in slime hutches would be very cool. Somebody call up ConcernedApe :)