Slime Incubator
| Slime Incubator | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Combat (Level 8) |
The Slime Incubator hatches Slime Eggs into living slimes. Every Slime Hutch comes with one built in, but a crafted incubator can stand anywhere, so slimes can be raised outdoors as well as inside the hutch. The recipe comes late in the Combat skill and takes Iridium Bars, which makes extra incubators a mid to late game project. Each egg needs a few days to hatch, and the Coopmaster profession halves that wait. Building several incubators is the quickest way to fill a hutch or to breed slimes of a chosen colour.
Recipe
The recipe unlocks at Combat level 8. Each incubator needs Iridium Bars and a large stack of Slime.
Iridium Bars come from smelting Iridium Ore with Coal in a Furnace. The Skull Cavern in the Calico Desert is the main place to mine that ore, and the deeper floors give the most. Slime is far easier. Slimes drop it when slain, and a working Slime Hutch fills with Slime Balls that break open into more.
There is also a way around the crafting. Marcello the Bookseller trades one Slime Incubator for two copies of the Monster Compendium. That trade only opens after the book's power has already been learned.
Robin builds the Slime Hutch at the Carpenter's Shop, and its first incubator is already inside when the work is done. Marlon then sends a green Slime Egg to get it started.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Iridium Bar | 
|
2 |
| Slime | 
|
100 |
Use
Using a Slime Egg on the incubator places the egg inside. The egg then sits for about two and a half days before a slime hatches. A farmer with the Coopmaster profession waits only half as long.
Each egg hatches a slime of its own colour. Green eggs give green slimes, blue eggs give blue ones, and so on. The slime's sex is random and only shows once it has hatched.
A Slime Hutch can hold twenty slimes at most. A crafted incubator gets around that limit, because it can go on any free tile, indoors or out, on the farm or elsewhere in the valley.
Notes
Slimes stay hostile even on the farm, and they still attack the farmer who raised them. The Slime Charmer Ring stops all damage from slimes. Gil at the Adventurer's Guild gives it as a reward for slaying a thousand of them.
Slime Eggs to hatch come from several places. The Slime Egg-Press turns a hundred Slime into an egg of a random colour. Slimes killed anywhere have a small chance of dropping an egg once a hutch stands on the farm.
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