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Xenobiology is the breeding and harvesting of slimes and their extracts for scientific purposes. This all takes place in the xenobiology lab where you spawn, and is <strike>arguably</strike> more dangerous than making bombs if you don't know what you are doing. Which is a good reason to read this! | Xenobiology is the breeding and harvesting of slimes and their extracts for scientific purposes. This all takes place in the xenobiology lab where you spawn, and is <strike>arguably</strike> more dangerous than making bombs if you don't know what you are doing. Which is a good reason to read this! | ||
== Home on the Range == | ==Home on the Range== | ||
[[File: | [[File:Xenobiology.png|400px|thumb|BoxStation Xenobiology]] | ||
As a Xenobiologist, you’re not going to get out <strike>much</strike> ever. You’re the most autonomous area on the entire station if you know what you're doing, and nobody ever bothers you [[Traitor#Assassination|(usually)]]. | As a Xenobiologist, you’re not going to get out <strike>much</strike> ever. You’re the most autonomous area on the entire station if you know what you're doing, and nobody ever bothers you [[Traitor#Assassination|(usually)]]. | ||
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First, get familiar with your new home. | First, get familiar with your new home. | ||
The workplace | The workplace 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, a wrench which can unanchor all the machinery (so you can reorganize your workspace), a few containment units and a disposal unit that leads to space. | ||
The lab also contains a slime containment area with pens, some of which start with a baby grey slime. There is also a special containment pen that's larger and more secure than the rest. This is ideal for containing and experimenting on [[Alien|other alien lifeforms]] should the station manage to capture/produce one. Usually though, it's just for storing extra slimes. [[Xenobiology Lab|You can read more about your workplace for each map by clicking here]]. | |||
===[[File:Slime_comp.png]] Slime Console=== | |||
Due to CentCom budget cuts, these consoles are '''no longer readily available on shift start'''. Circuit boards to build them can now be printed in research after researching bluespace technology. It is recommended that you do so, as it 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! | |||
It's strongly advised grabbing the wrench (usually located 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. | |||
It's strongly advised 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 | |||
===Safety Advice=== | ===Safety Advice=== | ||
Before you start breeding the slimes, make sure you have a fire extinguisher in your backpack. You'll rarely meet a ravenous, hungry slime if you're using the console, but it still happens and having an extinguisher could very well be the difference between a dead slime and a dead you. | |||
If you aren't using the console, then this goes doubly so as you'll be near a lot of slimes, usually before you cull their numbers, and while they're normally docile towards you whom are effectively their "God", they occasionally grow resentful for their species' exploitation and try to kill you for no particular reason. In that case, kill the blasphemers with a clear conscience, DEUS VULT! | |||
== | ==Breeding slimes== | ||
===Feeding=== | |||
If you are using the console, simply insert the monkey cubes from the boxes into the console. The console can now teleport monkeys directly inside the slime pens! If you are not using the console, then use the monkey cube on a water source and feed it to the slimes using the pen disposals units. Slimes need one monkey to become an adult and another to split. | |||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
Once they're fed enough, after a while the adult slime will split | Once they're fed enough, after a while the adult slime will split into 4 baby slimes. | ||
Time to kill your darlings. | ===Culling=== | ||
Time to kill your darlings. Decide which baby slimes you don't want to keep. | |||
If you are using the console then proceed to warp them up. The console can hold up to 5 slimes at a time. Teleport them onto the kill pen; it's the one with the blue floor, connected to a freezer. The sharp cold will kill the slimes quickly: when they stop moving they're dead and you can pick them up for the next step. | |||
Teleport them onto the kill pen; it's the one with the blue floor, connected to a freezer. The sharp cold will kill the slimes quickly: when they stop moving | |||
If you are not using the console then get out your fire extinguisher and blast the slime to death. You should refill the extinguisher at a water tank after every use. You could also choose to drag the slime into the kill pen - just make sure you're wearing warm clothing! | |||
Collect the dead slimes | ===Grinding=== | ||
Collect the dead slimes and drop them above, or next to, the slime processor. 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 faster and give more cores per slime. | * Upgrading the grinder will make it go faster and give more cores per slime. | ||
* A Bio Bag from any biohazard locker can mass-collect slime cores and easily drop them into the fridge for easy access. | * A Bio Bag from any biohazard locker can mass-collect slime cores and easily drop them into the fridge for easy access. | ||
== Friendship and Slimes == | ==Friendship and Slimes== | ||
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 simply being the one sending them monkeys. To check if slimes are friendly, say "Hello slimes"; all the slimes that consider you their friend will say hello. | 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 simply being the one sending them monkeys. To check if slimes are friendly, say "Hello slimes"; all the slimes that consider you their friend will say hello. | ||
There are some commands you can issue as a slime's friend, including "follow", "stop" and "attack". Keep in mind | There are some commands you can issue as a slime's friend, including "follow", "stop" and "attack". Keep in mind that these commands are exceedingly finicky, and are rarely used for a reason. Slimes will not attack other slimes or friends. | ||
===Defending against slimes=== | |||
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 cellular 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. | 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 cellular 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 | 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 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]]. | ||
==Slime Mutations== | ==Slime Mutations== | ||
There are a lot of different types of slime. You begin with two grey slimes but you can breed them to catch all the <strike>pokèmon!</strike> slimes! Each kind of slime has its own powers from its extract. | |||
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. The mutation chance is usually around 5%, so you will have to rely on [[Shaft_Miner#Xenobiology_and_You|miners]] to fetch the rarer colors for you. Think carefully about what colors you want and 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 will want to increase it! | |||
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. | |||
'''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. | '''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. | ||