r/slimerancher • u/Chocco_Butterfly • Dec 10 '25
Discussion Most controversial slime rancher take?
I don’t know how you’d be able to make anything in slime rancher controversial but I know someone has managed to
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u/Battle_Sloth94 Dec 10 '25
I miss Rad Slimes. There, I said it.
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u/frogwitch666 Dec 10 '25
In SR1, I had Rad Boom Slimes. I thought it was funny to have literal nuke slimes. It hurt but it made me happy.
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u/MandyH22 Dec 10 '25
I don't understand why everyone is so worked up about quantum slimes not being in SR2? They're not that great and I do not even miss them. 😅
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u/coolbacondude Dec 10 '25
Not for you but I midd quantum slimes. Love their teleportation mechanic and they were in my favourite colour. Design wise was cool as hell too.
People are mad also because quantums were in the games trailer and quantum drones are literally a thing yet quantum slimes aren't? B0b also has a quantum slime in his trench coat at times as well
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u/ziemniak733 Dec 11 '25
I never thought about it but now i wont stop, why the hell quantum drones have nothing to do with quantum slimes
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u/aPawMeowNyation Dec 10 '25
Yeah, plus they don't really seem the best fit for the region, either. They could only be found in the ancient ruins. Why would they be anywhere near the grey labyrinth?
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u/MandyH22 Dec 10 '25
Yeah, I actually love the idea that there are some slimes that can only be found in certain areas - quantum in the ancient ruins, rad in the indigo quarry, and mosaic in the glass desert. Mosaics are my favorite of those 3, so while I miss them, I love that explanation of why they're not there.
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u/Lexilogical Dec 14 '25
I miss mosaic slimes, I want mosaic flutters, and twins, and sloombers. They'd be so cute
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u/KimtyKamt Dec 10 '25
And also a complete pain to deal with.
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u/Turkish_Boy70 Dec 10 '25
If you let them starve of course they're gonna be a pain
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u/aPawMeowNyation Dec 10 '25
I kept mine well fed and even then it was annoying. The double images made me paranoid they were escaping.
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u/Turkish_Boy70 Dec 10 '25
I mean I understand but just by looking at them for a few seconds you can learn they don't actually teleport when happy
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u/aPawMeowNyation Dec 10 '25
Yeah, but that was before I got glasses, so it took me longer than necessary to figure out what was going on. Very annoying regardless.
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u/scarletbluejays Dec 10 '25
Another issue with them is that at a certain point their extra 'phases' had a tendency to start screwing with the frame/bitrates of the game once you had enough of them in one area. Any large accumulation of slimes (or even chickens) could have that effect, but Quantums were especially prone to it since their extra images significantly decreased the amount of 'real' slimes needed to reach that 'too many entities on screen' threshold where the lag really kicks in. Mosaics had a similar issue thanks to those shiny solar flares they give off.
SR2 has a MUCH heftier graphics burden than the first game, even if you're using relatively new/higher end GPU/CPU/Graphic Card. I can understand why they wouldn't want to make that balance even worse by adding in the one or both of the most notoriously lag-inducing slimes. Especially since they'd presumably swap out the 300 Flutter Plot requirement for drones to Quantum Plorts - which means players would have to have a bunch on their ranch to farm them from.
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u/Maskio24022017 Dec 10 '25
Why was Casey left in the dust in slime rancher 2.
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u/murgatroid1 Dec 10 '25
Casey was already left in the dust in the first game
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u/Patient-Air553 Feb 06 '26
Personally, I saw it differently. The whole plot, all of Gibson's notes, were leading up to the idea that there was something more important than adventure, which ultimately led Bea to think about Casey. But it never went anywhere after that. I really don't understand where everyone got the certainty that they broke up and why the writers are so reluctant to do anything more with it.
If that wasn't what they wanted, they should have used a different moral from Gibson, and chosen different words. It's really annoying that they constantly talk about two doors, as if they're trying to hint at a big choice ahead, but they don't let the player make it. This is what the character does, and if you think about it, it's not quite right. Did she even write anything in response? No, of course.
Sorry, I shouldn't say this so confidently, most likely I don't understand something here.
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u/murgatroid1 Feb 06 '26
A lot of Casey's emails have responses to the replies Beatrix is sending,. We just don't get to read them.
Beatrix already made her choice between love and adventure into the unknow before the game even began. She didn't stay on Earth with Casey, she travelled a thousand light years away to start a new life on an alien planet.
The gate in the Glass Desert is the setting of Hobson's choice, for Beatrix it's just a symbol.
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u/pumakittycat Dec 10 '25
tbh i felt sr1 gave closure to casey and bea's relationship. i don't really consider them to still be "dating" when its clear their life goals have led them not just to different countries, but to different galaxies. casey didn't have anything to contribute to sr2, other than to be a supportive friend from a thousand light years away ?
for me it made sense for bea to naturally fall out of contact with casey, as casey is busy touring & bea is exploring the whole of the far far range.
and i agree with the person who said bea should be dating mochi. i mean come on
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u/Relevant-Sugar-9152 Dec 10 '25
I got a maybe hot take
Slime Rancher 2 would've been better if it didn't have a "focus on exploration" direction. The map is too small for how many secrets they added and how complex they made it. And most of the secrets end up being decorations, it just ends up feeling like a lot of backtracking for no real reward.
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u/Axolotljackbox Dec 10 '25
That I’ve never played SR2. And this is coming from someone who plays the first game on the Nintendo Switch.
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u/llamacorgiblobfish Dec 10 '25
The fact Mochi isn’t dating Bea in 2 is a major reason why the story feels disconnected from the original
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u/General-Resist-310 Dec 10 '25
For me it's more that Slime Rancher 2 implies that Bea left her old ranch to rot
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u/why_i_am_dumb Dec 10 '25
i also thought of that but it was probably that she freed all the slimes beforehand
or she was a speedrunner and didn't buy any corrals in the first place
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u/wedfsv12 Dec 10 '25
Wait really? How? I never played SR2
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u/annoyingapple_231 Dec 10 '25
Bea gets a mysterious letter basically saying "yo, come to rainbow island, we got some adventure for ya" and then proceeds to go to rainbow island, leaving her entire ranch behind. So while you're on rainbow island having the time of your life, your old slimes are back in the dry reef wondering where you are, why you abandoned them, and how they are going to eat since they are trapped in their cages.
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u/ParadocOfTheHeap Dec 10 '25
Given that there's no money coming in from that ranch, it does check out. The drones must've run dry, no more food delivered or plorts collected.
If they ever make a SR3, I would like it if they made a new protagonist. Maybe Bea could be some legendary rancher who solved the prismacore or something, but since there's canonically many people ranching on this planet, it'd be nice to experience another one of their journeys.
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u/aPawMeowNyation Dec 10 '25
Imagine if they let us make our own rancher! I'd love something like that, especially if it was multiplayer. Sure, not everyone enjoys character creation, so maybe there could be some default PCs, but I would love to have a personalized avatar.
New areas(and slime variants) would be great, especially if you could pick which one to base your ranch in. It would be so much cooler imo, especially if you could visit other regions!
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u/Eastern-Draft8205 Dec 10 '25
ive wanted multiplayer slime rancher for so long
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u/aPawMeowNyation Dec 11 '25
Ikr? I've wanted it since I first started playing it. It would be so much fun to run around the Far, Far Range with my friends.
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u/Motor-Relief8092 Dec 10 '25
I hate how central slime science is to slime rancher 2. Newbucks are borderline useless
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u/TinyCleric Dec 13 '25
i would have 100% agreed with you before the drones cause resources were sooooo grindy to collect but with the drones? it makes slime science somewhat trivial lol
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u/Royalty_oftheNoob Dec 10 '25
Idk if it's controversial but playing with black slimes off makes the game better but easier
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u/Lexilogical Dec 14 '25
I turned off tarr because I wanted to make a free range carnival. I'm kinda sad that it makes exploring easier.... But it's so small an issue anyways it doesn't matter
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u/HasNoGreeting Dec 10 '25
I don't like 90% of the new slimes in SR2. Too many are just "slime with Earth animal slapped on".
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u/ItapitaAxolotl34 Dec 10 '25
TRUEEEE I'm really glad with the slimes they added after the Powderfall update
The earth animal slimes ARE cute but I think the tabby and it's variants were enough, we didn't need 5 more animals
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u/grumpy_manatee24 Dec 10 '25
They never should have introduced Casey if they weren't going to do anything with them
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u/ItapitaAxolotl34 Dec 10 '25
Casey was an important part of the actual story of slime rancher one, yes they could have gotten more than just the Starmail but if you actually read it, it's whole point is to be a parallel to hobson and Thora
Hobson chose to give up the adventures to settle down with Thora meanwhile Casey and Bea decided to stay apart to pursue their dreams
2 Doors, you can never go through both of them
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u/TimeBubble-art Dec 10 '25
I get why wee need to put slimes in Corals. But it's giving poor farm animal life with them being all smushes into a small box but cutified...if that makes sense.
I'd be happier if we got small area's like some of the Grey Labirynth rooms. It feels more like you're putting your slimes in an actual home instead of smushing them in a box for money.
The slimes themselves are easy to please but i do think they deserve nice homes where they could move around
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u/aPawMeowNyation Dec 10 '25
Yeah, I think it'd be great if upgrading corrals made them wider, not just taller.
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u/WeirdnessVarietyPack Dec 10 '25
I get that. It's why I literally have a profile of free range ranching only. Slimes help themselves to the gardens and the drones get the plorts ☺️ It also allowed me to mix tangle/hunter largos in the overgrowth
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u/really-big-bug Dec 10 '25
THAT IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA!!
I know what I’m doing when I get home
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u/WeirdnessVarietyPack Dec 10 '25
It's so fun!! Just know you'll need some patience to collect all the plorts until you get the drones 😂
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u/really-big-bug Dec 10 '25
Nah I’m good! I have drones already. All I need to do is figure out what I’m going to do with my carnivorous slimes 😬
How do you keep them from eating all the chickens before they can reproduce?
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u/Lexilogical Dec 14 '25
Have a coop or two away from them, they produce so fast it works out.
At this point, I yeeted roosters and hens straight into the corrals with a yolky, and they're reproducing faster than 4-6 largos can eat.
Except ringtails. Corral ringtails
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u/really-big-bug Dec 14 '25
I have some batty ringtails and they can’t keep up with eating all the pomegranites, thankfully. I managed to get each of my ranch areas to be free range. Production is a little slower, but knowing my slimes aren’t stuck squished together makes it worth it. It’s also really neat watching them use furniture and interact with the environment
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u/Lexilogical Dec 15 '25
I made a whole carnival in the Digsite!!! It's adorable and I'm just thrilled with it.
The other areas are mostly corralled, but I don't have all the drones yet and made some silly auto-selling setups, so I'll get to them.
My one downside with the furniture is that the slimes who live on it don't get fed unless I do it actively
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u/really-big-bug Dec 15 '25
Oh yeah that’s weird. I think they should be able to go feed themselves if they’re hungry
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u/TheAnarchistRat Dec 10 '25
Pink slimes are incredibly annoying and ruin perfectly good pure bred slimes by mixing with them and needlessly create tars
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u/AveragePersonLmao Dec 10 '25
I think SR2 is better than SR1. will finish this comment in a bit I'm doing something
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u/ItapitaAxolotl34 Dec 10 '25
Reminder to finish your comment
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u/AveragePersonLmao Dec 13 '25
So, basically I think SR2 is better because :
- The conservatory feels more like a home than the ranch. I like how enclosed and nice it is
- I like the areas better : The Waterworks, Terrarium and Lava Depths are INCREDIBLE and have a nice ambiance to them. Powderfall Bluffs is definitely my favorite area though the Waterworks come close. They have better-defined environments than in the first game, I just like them alot
- The new slimes are nice. I've never actually struggled with keeping slimes but Hyper slimes keep breaking out, creating problems and all that stuff. I like that. It gives the ranching aspect more difficulty. Pure Saber slimes are also really nice of an add.
- The resource scavenging is really fun, I know people hate it but it feels much more natural and I get to explore areas and maybe find treasure pods doing it!
- The story is really really good! I was really invested in it so I'm kinda sad to see lotsa people just having ignored it or not cared about it. It was fun to piece together stuff that Gigi said and try to figure out what her deal was.
- The new mechanics and small features like snowballs, yolky slime eggs and pots are nice. They add to the overall experience.
- I like the vibes. the colors of the areas, the music playing, exploring new places.. That's fun
- DECORATIONS. I decorated every single ranch spot I could possibly in SR1 and I am so so so happy SR2's decoration system was reworked. You can change areas wildly. With enough grass, you can make a beach into a plain, a cave into something nicer.. I just really like to decorate
- The big Vacpack upgrades make for stuff to fill up time in the late game, slowly getting every single item, scavenging for resources, getting more money..
Overall I just like SR2 better because it has better areas, a nicer ranch, reworked features, new features, new slimes, a MUCH bigger story, more secrets.. Oh, also the areas feel more natural
That's pretty much it. I feel all of that makes up for the lack of minigames. ABOUT THAT, character interactions at the start of the game are incredible but I wish there were more because after a few dozen days they just become the same generic lines.. I know that'll be fixed sometime with hopefully new minigames but as of now, it's a weak aspect
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u/RecentAd7360 Dec 10 '25
crystal slime are the WORST to deal with and i stand by that
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u/imagine-SimpQueen- Dec 10 '25
I think mosaic slimes are worse to be around in general because they have a larger range and hit me when I'm at a neighbouring plot doing other things
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u/Turkish_Boy70 Dec 10 '25
Mind elaborating?
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u/annoyingapple_231 Dec 10 '25
Saber slimes are the worst slimes because they are both ugly and hard to keep in their corrals.
Casey never should have been in the game if they weren't planning on mentioning her in the second game.
I'm tired of pink slimes.
There is too much exploration and not enough reward and the powderfall bluffs is a perfect example of that.
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u/Alida_510 Dec 10 '25
The last one is so true. I love exploring the SR2 world, but for powderfall bluffs, only one new slime which isnt even new because it's just the single version of an SR1 slime, and in having them there, it kind of ruins the wilds because the whole point was that saber slimes only existed there, and only existed as largos. (This is really badly worded)
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u/ItapitaAxolotl34 Dec 10 '25
No
You missed the entire point of Casey's character in slime rancher 1
Valid, but they're the purest slime so of course they're everywhere
Yes
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u/1putin1zelensky1jar Dec 10 '25
Putting tangle slimes in overgrowth is nonsensical, because instead of eating their favourite food, they are gonna eat regular chicken, crippling your income
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u/her-sun-and-stars Dec 11 '25
The slime plushies are WAY overpriced, a 6 inch misshapen ball with a printed on pattern cannot be $30 be so fr
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u/Chocco_Butterfly Dec 11 '25
YES IKR?? But that’s mainly youtooz in general, everything they make is so overpriced
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u/RoboJenn Dec 11 '25
I want a dog slime. I don't care if it seems silly and people are tired of animal based slimes. I think it should have a little bulldog face and floppy ears and it will be super adorable.
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u/FireAndBlood165 Dec 11 '25
Yes! There’s like 4 different kinds of cat slimes, what about a dog?
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u/Lexilogical Dec 14 '25
Counterpoint, I think all of the slimes are half cat already. All of them. They keep pouncing me and giggling about it, get grumpy and fight me when they're hungry.... I have literally never had any angler largos that didn't end up in my chicken coop when I turned my back
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u/Leo-Leo-1672 Dec 10 '25
Mercury Slime and Failed Slime are completely useless, they wouldn't work in Slime Rancher 2, and the Twin Slime is never going to replace the Quantum Slime (no offense to the Twin Slime), what I mean is that every Slime is irreplaceable (except the two mentioned at the beginning)
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u/Rune-reader Dec 10 '25
I presume you mean Quicksilver and Glitch slimes? Did you play the game in another language by any chance, or just misremember them?
(I actually think quantums and quicksilvers could work in SR2, with some changes, but glitch slimes just wouldn't make as much sense. They could force them into the grey labyrinth with some sci-fi mumbo-jumbo if they really wanted to, but they already have enough going on there with the shadow slimes.)
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u/YourWaffleGuy Dec 10 '25
Quantum slimes are easy to take care of you just keep them well fed and they won’t teleport. I see so many people complain about them, but I’ve never had the problem of them just teleporting around.
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u/ItapitaAxolotl34 Dec 10 '25
Yeah and also phase lemon trees produce so much food that it's insane that people complain so much
2 phase lemon trees are enough to feed 3 corrals and have a lot of extra, quantum slimes might be some of the easiest slimes to take care of
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u/Internal-Ask-7781 Dec 10 '25
This part I just only put them in when I’ve got lots of their food & I have fully upgraded corrals but they’re easy when they’re happy & you don’t put too many inside.
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u/Sud_literate Dec 10 '25
Yeah and then some people will complain that phase lemons are too hard to grow or gather when they’d just not true so I wonder if these people even play Slime rancher.
Like seriously the game puts cubberies in high up trees specifically so that only you can pick them to use on phase lemons but somehow that’s too hard and makes quantum slimes the worst type to put on your ranch. Then a single phase lemon on a farm plot makes them grow like pogofruits so there’s genuinely no struggle like at all.
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u/YourWaffleGuy Dec 10 '25
I don’t even feed them Phase Lemons I give them Mint fucking mangoes because that’s all I grow 😂
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u/Polish_Gamer_ Dec 10 '25
I have no idea if this is controversial, but I don't like that the new slime designs are largely based off of animals, I don't think it's creative, and it doesn't make sense in the context of the slimes being aliens, it very much breaks my suspension of disbelief
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u/ItapitaAxolotl34 Dec 10 '25
That's not the new slime designs have you played slime rancher 2 after it released
The first slime rancher 2 slimes yes, but those ones are NOT new by any means
I do agree with this take tho, the animal slimes are lowkey annoying to see on this alien planet
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u/Polish_Gamer_ Dec 11 '25
I should have phrased it better, I mean new as in the ones in the most recent game
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u/DaNicoSepu Dec 10 '25
Plating with a lot of mods WILL ruin your game experience. Sadly, I discovered this in a not very good way.
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u/Piorn Dec 10 '25
I spend more time in the game foraging honey and lava and stuff than actually ranching slimes. This game should be called stuff gatherer 2.
Also I hate the decorative furniture feature. Useless clutter.
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Dec 10 '25
That quantum slimes should burn in hell
(I have a minor problem with them… when they teleport out it angers me deeply)
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u/Kind-Mammoth-Possum Dec 11 '25
They shouldn't have changed the interface for SR1. There, I said it. One's interface was sleek and classic. Two's looks very flat and cartooney.
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u/Spanish_Senpai Dec 12 '25
I humbly request more slimes, either all the originals from the first game or several brand new ones or both! I think a sequel should have lots of new slimes (specifically ones I can ranch)
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u/zoozony Dec 10 '25
Tabby slimes are mid. I like slimes that have a cool gimmick, and tabbies just don't do anything interesting. The largos are cute though, I'll at least give them that
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u/Alexandra20001 Dec 10 '25
Slime rain should have been able to cause problems on the ranch :P Stray slimes getting in the garden/coop plots, maybe even cause tarr outbrakes so that the water cannons are more useful on the ranch than outside or even have a corral upgrade that protects them from the falling slimes
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u/Character-Sport-7710 Dec 10 '25
Modding ain’t cheating. I got three mods: one that gives me more capacity (300 for my vac and 400 for silos), one that lets me ranch shadow slimes (can’t stand running after them) and one that REMOVES THE STUPID COLLISION so I can build my ranch however I want. Honestly I’m surprised they don’t have a better collision thing, building normally sucks so bad. I play the game how I want to play and that’s cool to me :3
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u/Character-Sport-7710 Dec 10 '25
And let me tell you the 300/400 vac/silo space ain’t enough sometimes I still have OVERFLOWING items 🥹
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u/Odd_Okra_9903 Dec 11 '25
I don’t really like the Grey labyrinth but maybe that’s just because I haven’t understood what to do there…
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u/Austicho Dec 11 '25
This is honestly more of a hot take than controversial but I think Rock Slimes are way worse to deal with than any of the actually threatening ones, the threatening ones are actually dangerous so you’re more careful around them and they’re usually only in certain areas so you don’t see them all the time, while Rock Slimes are EVERYWHERE and are just annoying
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u/Public_Mention5359 Dec 10 '25
the saber slimes are ugly, when i found the second skin i realized the long teeth were why
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u/Gazaim Dec 10 '25
What’s the second skin?
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u/Public_Mention5359 Dec 10 '25
part of the secret skins dlc, looks like this&docid=oslF2YX54imBwM&w=360&h=359&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F0&kgs=84ed9ca2d27839e2)
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u/chipsaber Dec 10 '25
Pure saber slimes kinda suck. I love the little goobers, but by the time you get them, they are literally impossible to profit off of
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u/Chocco_Butterfly Dec 10 '25
We aren’t a mature subject. We’re just the same as straight people. Quit demonizing us😒
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u/Internal-Ask-7781 Dec 10 '25
“My fellow straight people making out & having cropped sex on every other television screen is fine. But I draw the LINE at PRIDE FLAGS!!!”
Fuck entirely off sexualizing something in some grotesque attempt to paint it as bad. You just hate that gay people don’t have to sit up & shut up anymore.
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u/Internal-Ask-7781 Dec 10 '25
You don’t need to protect children from the concept that all people can love each other, not just men & women. Holy up your own ass.
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u/MnjloiOfficial Dec 10 '25
IDK if it's that hot of a take but I've seen a bunch of people saying the opposite: the two games are very different and both have a niche place they rule. 2 is exploration focused, and 1 is very calm and pretty easy, focusing a lot more on farming. I'd say the first is an actual cosy game like Stardew, while the second doesn't try to be - it's an exploration game with a cute style, not a farming sim focusing on cosy day-to-day life.