Sunlit Valley Complete Guide to Slimes

This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about managing and farming Slimes in the Sunlit Valley modpack. From finding wild Slimes to crossbreeding them for maximum profit, you’ll learn all the essential mechanics to become a successful Slime rancher.

Finding Slimes in the World

When exploring the Skull Cavern or the Overworld, you’ll sometimes encounter a Slime spawner. These spawners will produce free Slimes that you can collect and begin your ranching operation. There are many different types of Slimes available throughout the world, each with unique characteristics and dietary requirements.

Understanding Slime Hunger and Diet

Each Slime has a hunger bar that indicates its current feeding status. When you look at a Slime, you’ll see its hunger displayed as a grey bar when it’s hungry. A Slimey Slime, for example, is classified as a wild Slime with a diet consisting of berries.

To feed a hungry Slime, simply throw its preferred food on the ground. The Slime will move toward the food and eat it. Once fed, the Slime’s hunger bar will return to neutral, indicating it’s satisfied.

Checking Slime Information in JEI

To determine what each Slime eats and what it produces, check the JEI (Just Enough Items) entries. Look for the cube-shaped Slime entries (not the spawn eggs, but the actual Slime cubes). These entries show you the primary Slime types.

For example, the Slimey Slime is the most basic of Splendid Slimes and is perfect for beginner ranchers. The JEI entry displays:

Diet: berries (and all acceptable berry variations)

Output: Slimey Plorts (dropped when fed)

Harvesting Plorts from Fed Slimes

When you feed a Slime, it will eventually drop Plorts as output. For instance, a well-fed Slimey Slime drops Slimey Plorts. You simply feed the Slime again when it becomes hungry, and it will produce more Plorts for you to collect.

Interestingly, a single Slime can sometimes drop multiple types of Plorts—such as both Slimey Plorts and Juicy Plorts—depending on its breeding status.

Crossbreeding Slimes for Higher Yields

How Crossbreeding Works

One of the most powerful mechanics in Slime ranching is crossbreeding. You can create hybrid Slimes that eat multiple food types and produce multiple Plort types, doubling your output.

Crossbreeding Process

Let’s say you have a Slimey Slime (which drops Slimey Plorts) and a Juicy Slime (which eats red grapes and drops Juicy Plorts). Here’s how to crossbreed them:

Feed the Slimey Slime berries to obtain Slimey Plorts

Feed those Slimey Plorts to the Juicy Slime

The Juicy Slime will crossbreed and become a Juicy Slimey Slime hybrid

This hybrid now eats both berries and grapes

When fed, it drops both Juicy Plorts and Slimey Plorts

Output Doubling Example

With a crossbred Slime, you always receive double the output. For example:

Juicy Plorts: 148 coins each

Slimey Plorts: 64 coins each

Combined per feeding: maximum profit from a single Slime

Processing Plorts into Slime Hearts

Plorts aren’t the final product—you can process them further for even greater returns. In your Plot House, you’ll find a Plot Press machine.

Using the Plot Press

The Plot Press converts Plorts into Slime Hearts. For example, combine 16 Slimey Plorts in the Plot Press, and it will slowly process them into a Slimey Slime Heart.

Slime Incubators and Favorite Foods

Incubating Slime Hearts

Place a Slime Heart into a Slime Incubator. This machine converts any Slime Heart into a Slime Ticket, which is a crucial item for optimizing your farm.

Using Slime Tickets to Discover Favorite Foods

A Slime Ticket reveals a Slime’s favorite food. Right-click a Slime with the ticket to receive a gift box revealing the favorite food preference.

For example, a Slimey Slime’s favorite food is strawberry. Here’s the benefit:

Feeding any berry type: 1 Plort output

Feeding the favorite food (strawberry): 2 Plort output

With crossbred Slimes: double output of both Plort types when fed favorite food

Building Your Slime Farm

Useful Blocks and Machines

The Sunlit Valley modpack provides several tools to optimize your Slime farm:

Coral Blocks

Coral blocks are walkable for you but impassable for Slimes. This makes them ideal for building containment areas and farm structures while allowing you to navigate freely.

Plort Ripet Machine

The Plort Ripet is an advanced processing machine. Press U while holding a Plort to place it in the Ripet. It will process the Plort and output different items based on type. For example:

Juicy Plort: 11% chance for Guiala berries, 88% chance for red grape juice

Slimey Plort: produces different output

Simply right-click to feed Plorts into the Ripet, and after a few seconds it will output the processed items.

Essential Slime Ranching Equipment

Slime Vac

The Slime Vac is essential for managing Slimes on your farm. To use it:

Shift + right-click on a Slime to capture it

Hold the Vac in your off-hand

Right-click to release the Slime wherever you need it

This tool is perfect for relocating Slimes to specific pens or farm areas.

Slime Feeder

The Slime Feeder automatically feeds nearby Slimes within a 13×13×13 area. Simply place food in the feeder, and it will distribute meals to all Slimes in range.

Automation and Advanced Farming

You can fully automate your Slime farm using standard Minecraft redstone components:

Hoppers: Drop food items into feeding areas

Magnets with filters: Automatically collect dropped Plorts

Conveyor systems: Transport items between farm sections

With proper automation, you can generate substantial daily income from Slime Plort sales and processed Slime Hearts.

High-Value Slimes and Optimization Strategy

Rare and Expensive Plorts

Some Slimes produce extremely valuable Plorts:

Spark Cat Plort: ~1400 coins per unit

Shulking Plort: ~1000 coins per unit

Gold Plort: ~2000 coins per unit (requires preserves as food)

Recommended Strategy: The Crossbreed Profit Method

Here’s the optimal approach for maximum profitability:

The Strategy: Find rare Slimes in the Skull Cavern (such as Spark Cat Slimes), then use the Slime Vac to capture them. Crossbreed these rare Slimes with basic, easily-fed Slimes like the Slimey Slime.

The Result: You create a hybrid that accepts easily-obtainable food (strawberries for a Spark Cat-Slimey hybrid) while producing expensive Spark Cat Plorts alongside standard Slimey Plorts. This gives you access to high-value currency while using basic farming inputs.

Summary

Slime ranching in Sunlit Valley is a lucrative and rewarding activity. Start by finding wild Slimes and learning their diets. Feed them regularly to harvest Plorts, then process those Plorts into Slime Hearts using the Plot Press. Use Slime Tickets to discover favorite foods, which double your output. Crossbreed Slimes to access expensive Plort types while maintaining simple feeding requirements. With automation and strategic rare Slime crossbreeding, you can generate thousands of coins daily and build a profitable Slime empire.

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