Guide to xenobiology: Difference between revisions

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First, get familiar with your new home.
First, get familiar with your new home.


The workplace in the center includes a couple of closets with bio-hazard suits, a monkey recycling machine, a slime processor, and an All-In-One Grinder with several sheets of plasma. Also included is a smartfridge modified to hold slime extracts within easy arm reach from the slime processor. To the western end is a disposal unit that leads to space and right of this is the bread and butter of your job: The Slime Console, which will be covered later.
The workplace in the center includes a couple of closets with bio-hazard suits, a monkey recycling machine, a slime processor, and an All-In-One Grinder with several sheets of plasma. Also included is a smartfridge modified to hold slime extracts within easy arm reach from the slime processor. There is also a wrench, which can unanchor all the machinery, so you can reorganize your workspace. To the western end is a disposal unit that leads to space and right of this is the bread and butter of your job: The Slime Console, which will be covered later.


To the south is the slime containment area with six pens. Two of these pens start with a baby grey slime.
To the south is the slime containment area with six pens. Two of these pens start with a baby grey slime.
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===Genocide Now: The Slime Console and You===
===Genocide Now: The Slime Console and You===


The Slime Console is a semi-new addition to the Xenobiology scene that makes your job roughly a hundred million times easier. With it you can move slimes, kill them, feed them, and process dead monkeys with mere clicks of a button! If for some reason however you want to do Xenobiology the old-fashioned way the way your pappy taught you, then this guide will still help you.
The Slime Console is a semi-new addition to the Xenobiology scene that makes your job roughly a hundred million times easier. With it you can move slimes, kill them, feed them, and process dead monkeys with mere clicks of a button!
 
If you're using the console, I'd strongly advise grabbing the wrench next to the shield projectors and moving the fridge and slime processor within close range of the console you're using as to cut out a lot of unnecessary movement.
If you're using the console, I'd strongly advise grabbing the wrench next to the shield projectors and moving the fridge and slime processor within close range of the console you're using as to cut out a lot of unnecessary movement.


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=== It Hungers... For More! ===
=== It Hungers... For More! ===


Soak a monkey cube in water either by dipping it in the sink or by spraying it with an extinguisher and place it in the disposal of the slime pen you want to feed. Engage the disposal and watch as the slime eats the monkey. Wait for the slime to grow, then load another monkey and wait for the slime to split.
Insert the monkey cubes from the box into the console. The console can now teleport monkeys directly inside the slime pens! Slimes need one monkey to become an adult and another to split.


* As tempting as it may be, do not send in two monkeys at once. The slime might decide the second is a friend and refuse to eat it.
* You can send both monkeys at once into a baby slime's pen, so you don't have to think about it until they split.
* Do NOT enter the pen and bash the monkey, the only thing that will happen is slime will get less food.
* Do NOT enter the pen and bash the monkey, the only thing that will happen is slime will get less food.
* Make sure to stay in sight of the slimes to keep a eye on when they grow and split.
* Keep an eye on the slimes, so you know when they split.


=== Slaughter Time ===
=== Slaughter Time ===


Time to kill your darlings. This is the part of the job that's most likely to get you killed.
Time to kill your darlings.
 
Decide which baby slimes you don't want to keep and proceed to drag them into the tiny 'airlock' of the pen with you.


Once you have the slimes in position, simply spray them with water. They should die immediately if you're spraying them in the enclosed space.
Decide which baby slimes you don't want to keep and proceed to warp them up with the console. It can hold up to 5 slimes at a time.
Teleport them onto the kill pen; it's the one connected to a freezer. The sharp cold will kill the slimes quickly: when they stop moving, they're definitely dead.


=== Rip My Heart Out ===
=== Rip My Heart Out ===


Grab the dead slime, click on the slime processor and then click on it again to turn on the processor. After a few seconds, it'll output an extract of the color of slime in the processor. You can put more then one dead slime in at a time, however this will increase the processing time.
Collect the dead slimes from the freezer room, and drop them above the slime grinder. It will automatically suck in the slimes; when it's done, activate it to grind them. It will, after a while, drop a slime core of the respective color for each slime grinded. Upgrading the grinder will make it go fasser and give more cores per slime.


=== Genocide? ===
=== Genocide? ===
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If you've been following the guide and diligently breeding and culling the slimes, you may have noticed that while the slimes very quickly attack and eat the monkeys you offer them, they have little to no interest in eating you. This is because you've become their "friend", a status that can be earned by hanging around line of sight of the slime and feeding it. It's a bit strange sometimes, slimes will rarely attack you for seemingly no reason, but if you're doing a good job you won't need to work for this.
If you've been following the guide and diligently breeding and culling the slimes, you may have noticed that while the slimes very quickly attack and eat the monkeys you offer them, they have little to no interest in eating you. This is because you've become their "friend", a status that can be earned by hanging around line of sight of the slime and feeding it. It's a bit strange sometimes, slimes will rarely attack you for seemingly no reason, but if you're doing a good job you won't need to work for this.


There are, however, some commands you can issue as a slime's friend, including "follow" and "stop." Keep in mind however, these commands are exceedingly finicky, and are rarely used for a reason.
There are, however, some commands you can issue as a slime's friend, including "follow", "stop" and "attack". Keep in mind however, these commands are exceedingly finicky, and are rarely used for a reason. Slimes will not attack other slimes or friends.


=== THEY'RE EATING HER... AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME! OH MY GOOOOOOOOD! ===
=== THEY'RE EATING HER... AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME! OH MY GOOOOOOOOD! ===
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So either by you not feeding the slime enough, the slime being an dick, or [[Guide_to_xenobiology#Tier_3|reas]][[Guide_to_xenobiology#So_You.27re_a_Traitor|ons]], a slime has tried to kill you. If the slime is a baby, this is annoying. If the slime is an adult, you may die if you don't know what you're doing.
So either by you not feeding the slime enough, the slime being an dick, or [[Guide_to_xenobiology#Tier_3|reas]][[Guide_to_xenobiology#So_You.27re_a_Traitor|ons]], a slime has tried to kill you. If the slime is a baby, this is annoying. If the slime is an adult, you may die if you don't know what you're doing.


Slimes have two attacks: A glomp that does brute damage with adults dealing more and a chance to stun, and the far more dangerous 'feeding' attack which deals clone damage and empowers the slime, a rare and very difficult to hear type of damage. If a slime starts feeding on you, wrestle it off with disarm intent and spray it down with an extinguisher (You DID get an extinguisher, right?) when you get it off until it dies. After that, hobble off to medbay for healing.
Slimes have two attacks: A glomp that does brute damage with adults dealing more and a chance to stun, and the far more dangerous 'feeding' attack which deals clone damage and empowers the slime, a rare and very difficult to heal type of damage. If a slime starts feeding on you, wrestle it off with disarm intent and spray it down with an extinguisher (You DID get an extinguisher, right?) when you get it off until it dies. After that, hobble off to medbay for healing.


While this is generally more a tip for you when NOT playing Xenobiologist, in the event of a very rare slime outbreak, perhaps of sentient slimes, get an extinguisher and hide. A horde of angry slimes can multiply fast, and while slimes are normally unintelligent and docile, outbreaks of them are nearly always done on purpose by someone wanting to destroy the station, and are thus paired with usage of red extracts enraging slimes and/or light pink or black extracts making very deadly intelligent slimes. Pray that the AI is able to stop them, and that the xenobiologist who released the slimes doesn't follow up with [[Guide_to_xenobiology#So_You.27re_a_Traitor|something worse]].
While this is generally more a tip for you when NOT playing Xenobiologist, in the event of a very rare slime outbreak, perhaps of sentient slimes, get an extinguisher and hide. A horde of angry slimes can multiply fast, and while slimes are normally unintelligent and docile, outbreaks of them are nearly always done on purpose by someone wanting to destroy the station, and are thus paired with usage of red extracts enraging slimes and/or light pink or black extracts making very deadly intelligent slimes. Pray that the AI is able to stop them, and that the xenobiologist who released the slimes doesn't follow up with [[Guide_to_xenobiology#So_You.27re_a_Traitor|something worse]].
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Every time a slime splits by being fed enough, it has a chance to mutate based on it's individual mutation chance, a stat discovered by taking a slime scanner from the fridge and using it on the slime. It usually varies between 25% and 35%, but sometimes you will encounter slimes whose mutation chance is more like 15% to 17.5%. Choose carefully which slimes to keep! If you're breeding greys for monkeys, you'll want less chance of mutations, and if you want to get adamantines, you want to evolve them a lot! Keep in mind however that slime scanners are utterly useless if you're using the console, as the console has no scanner function.
Every time a slime splits by being fed enough, it has a chance to mutate based on it's individual mutation chance, a stat discovered by taking a slime scanner from the fridge and using it on the slime. It usually varies between 25% and 35%, but sometimes you will encounter slimes whose mutation chance is more like 15% to 17.5%. Choose carefully which slimes to keep! If you're breeding greys for monkeys, you'll want less chance of mutations, and if you want to get adamantines, you want to evolve them a lot! Keep in mind however that slime scanners are utterly useless if you're using the console, as the console has no scanner function.


'''NOTE:''' You can increase a slime's chance of mutation by injecting it with plasma and decrease it by injecting it with inaprovaline.
'''NOTE:''' You can increase a slime's chance of mutation by injecting it with slime mutation potions from red slimes and decrease it with slime stability potions from blue slimes.


This flowchart shows the results of each slime's mutations when splitting, with options labeled "2x" having twice the chance of occurring.
This flowchart shows the results of each slime's mutations when splitting, with options labeled "2x" having twice the chance of occurring.
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[[File:slimepurple.png]]
[[File:slimepurple.png]]
* Extract creates a bottle of slime steroid when injected with plasma. Slime steroid is a potent chemical mix that will cause a slime to produce three extracts rather than two when processed. Useful when used on dark purple slimes for that plasma or grey slimes for monkeys.
* Extract creates a bottle of slime steroid when injected with plasma. Slime steroid is a potent chemical mix that will cause a slime to produce three extracts rather than two when processed. Useful when used on dark purple slimes for that plasma or grey slimes for monkeys.
* Extract creates slime jelly, a highly toxic substance, when injected with sugar.
* Extract creates slime jelly, a highly toxic substance, when injected with sugar. Useful if you are a slimeperson and want to split faster.


{{anchor|Blue Slime}}
{{anchor|Blue Slime}}
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'''Yellow Slime'''
'''Yellow Slime'''
[[File:slimeyellow.png]]
[[File:slimeyellow.png]]
* Extracts become 10k Charge [[Powercell]]s when injected with plasma. These cells are self-charging, and very useful for cyborgs or APCs, for example.
* Extracts become 10k Charge [[Powercell]]s when injected with plasma. These cells are self-charging, and very useful for cyborgs or APCs, for example. Very useful for R&D.
* Extract creates an EMP when injected with blood. It's a quite big blast as well, useful if that AI is onto your [[traitor|tricks]].
* Extract creates an EMP when injected with blood. It's a quite big blast as well, useful if that AI is onto your [[traitor|tricks]].
* Extracts emit light when injected with water.
* Extracts emit light when injected with water.
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'''Green Slime'''
'''Green Slime'''
[[File:slimegreen.png]]
[[File:slimegreen.png]]
* Extract creates one unit of mutation toxin when injected with plasma. Injecting yourself with it will turn you into a slime-(wo)man. This results in the slimes never attacking you, but keep in mind though that you are no longer technically 'human' as far as the AI and Cyborgs are concerned. The toxin is found in the used extract. Your blood also is no longer 'valid' for the purpose of blood based reactions with extracts.  
* Extract creates one unit of mutation toxin when injected with plasma. Injecting yourself with it will turn you into a slime-(wo)man. This results in the slimes never attacking you, but keep in mind though that you are no longer technically 'human' as far as the AI and Cyborgs are concerned. The toxin is found in the used extract. Your blood also is no longer 'valid' for the purpose of blood based reactions with extracts. Slimepersons also have the ability to split and gain multiple bodies. To do this, you must have a certain abount of (slime) blood, which you'll generate passively as long as you're well fed.
* Injecting the extract with radium creates one unit of unstable mutation toxin instead, which causes a random humanoid mutation, such as a zombie or an abductor.
* Injecting the extract with radium creates one unit of unstable mutation toxin instead, which causes a random humanoid mutation, such as a golem or an abductor.


{{anchor|Pink Slime}}
{{anchor|Pink Slime}}
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* Oil - Explosion. Pretty meh considering there's materials for IEDs everywhere.
* Oil - Explosion. Pretty meh considering there's materials for IEDs everywhere.
* Adamantium - Makes golems that can be converted to the cult/soul shard/revved. They have to follow orders given to them by their creator so feel free to make them suicide bomb with gold slime cores.
* Adamantium - Makes golems that can be converted to the cult/soul shard/revved. They have to follow orders given to them by their creator so feel free to make them suicide bomb with gold slime cores.
* Light pink - Enables you to make sentient beings, including anything a gold slime extract can produce.  
* Light pink - Enables you to make sentient beings, including anything a gold slime extract can produce. Magicarps included.


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