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Xenobiology is the breeding and harvesting of slimes and their extracts for the purpose of creating resources, research and potions.  
Xenobiology is the breeding and harvesting of slimes and their extracts for the purpose of creating resources, research and potions.  
== Home on the Range ==
== Home on the Range ==
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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: Slime management 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. To the eastern end is a disposal unit that leads to space and left of this is the bread and butter of your job: Slime management 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 north is an additional pen that can be used for golden slime extract mobs or slimes.  
To the west is the slime containment area with six pens. Three of these pens start with a baby grey slime. Some laboratories also contain an additional pen that can be used for for golden slime extract mobs or slimes.


===Combatting Slimes in Xenobiology===
===Combatting Slimes in Xenobiology===
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and deal cellular damage if left on for too long. Cellular damage can be mended via Cryo Cells in Medbay.  
and deal cellular damage if left on for too long. Cellular damage can be mended via Cryo Cells in Medbay.  


== Exploiting Lesser Species Optimally: A Guide ==
== Efficiently managing your slimes ==


You should always have 1-6 slimes, depending on how many pens you are using. More and you can't control them properly. Less and your job is inefficient.
You should always have 1-6 slimes, depending on how many pens you are using. More and you can't control them properly. Less and your job is inefficient.
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===Feeding Slimes===
===Feeding Slimes===


<s>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.</s> Forget that, stuff the cube into the slime management console and use it to drop off a monkey into a slime pen. Wait for the slime to grow, then load another monkey and wait for the slime to split.
Insert monkey cubes into the slime management console. You can now use the console to drop a monkey into a slime pen. The Slime will then move to feed off of the monkey.


* Dropping in two monkeys for one slime, will save time and be more efficient than dropping in one.  
* Dropping in two monkeys for one slime, will save time and be more efficient than dropping in one.  
* 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 slime will get only less food.
* Make sure to stay in sight of the slimes to keep an eye on when they grow and split.
* Use the time between feedings to multi-task and work on other tasks, such as collecting slime extracts.


=== Slaughter Time ===
===Harvesting Extracts===
 
Time to kill your darlings. This is the part of the job that's most likely to get you killed.
 
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.
 
Or if you are a smart person, you probally made a killpen. The two windows to space in bottom side of xenobio are a good location.
 
Or if you're too lazy to make a kill pen but don't want to grab your slimes manually when you want to kill them, you made a tiny glass chamber next to your seat and the processor so you can spray the slimes in an enclosed space from the comfort of your chair.


===Harvesting Extracts===
At this point, you should have grown several different types of slimes.


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 than one dead slime in at a time, however this will increase the processing time. Make sure to bug whoever is doing R&D to upgrade slime processor so you can get more extracts from less slimes. And if you ever happen to lose your slime processor, its just a renamed food processor.
The basic method of killing slimes is using the kill chamber your laboratory is equipped with. The kill chamber is a giant freezer, where the temperature is low enough to kill all the slimes inside. Before usage make sure that the freezer in front of it is working and cooling. The downside of using this method is the need to manually move dead slimes to the processor with management console.  


== Friendship and Slimes ==
The more efficient method of killing slimes however, is to create a make-shift kill box using the Slime Processor, Monkey Recycler and Slime Extract Storage in combination with a shower. Using either of those methods will reduce close contact with slimes and eliminate the threat of slimes harming you or getting loose.


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.
Machines such as the Slime Processor, Monkey Recycler and Slime Extract Storage can be un-wrenched and dragged, and wrenched again to anchor. A shower, found in the Xenobiology Lab Entrance,
can be welded off the wall, and then applied onto another wall. The showers temperature can be modified by wrenching it. For the purpose of Xenobiology, it is recommended that the shower be toggled to freezing,
as Slimes are weak to the cold and water.


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.
Extracts, Used Extracts and Monkey Cubes can be scooped up with a bio bag. The bio bag can then be used to apply all the monkey cubes to a Slime Management Console at once, or load all slimes extracts into the Slime Extract Storage
at once. Bio bags can be found in the level-3 biohazard suit closets.


===Aggresive Slimes===
===Aggressive Slimes===


If you are not feeding the slime enough or attack the slime. They will become aggressive towards you.
If you are not feeding a slime enough or attack a slime. They will become aggressive towards you.


Slimes have three attacks: A glomp that does brute damage, with adults dealing more and a chance to stun, a shock attack that stuns and the most dangerous 'feeding' attack which empowers the slime and deals clone damage, a rare and very difficult to heal type of damage (that is, if medics are incompetent). 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 three attacks: A glomp that does brute damage, with adults dealing more, and a chance to stun. A shocking attack that will stun you,  and a 'feeding' attack that empowers the slime and deals cellular damage, an uncommon and difficult to heal damage type. If a slime starts feeding on you, wrestle it off with disarm intent and spray it down with an extinguisher until it dies. After that, hobble off to Medbay for healing.


==Gotta Catch Em' All!==
==Slime Genealogy 101==


There are different types of slime. You begin with two grey slimes but, you can breed them to catch all the <s>pokèmon!</s> slimes! Each kind of slime has its own powers from its extract.
There are several different types of slime. You begin with two grey slimes, but you can breed them to farm all kinds of different slimes! Each kind of slime has its extract with special properties.


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.
When a slime splits by being fed enough, it has a chance to mutate based on it's individual mutation chance; a stat discovered by either using a Slime Scanner on a slime, or the Slime Management Console Scanner. 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 mutation, and if you want to get Adamantine slimes, you'll want a higher mutation chance!


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.


[[File:Slime_geneology2.png|center]]
[[File:Slime_geneology2.png|center|400px]]


== Formulas ==
== Formulas ==
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! Tier
! Tier
! class="unsortable" style="background: #ff4343;" | Blood
! class="unsortable" style="background: #ff4343;" | Blood
! class="unsortable" style="background: #ff45f8;" | Plasma
! class="unsortable" style="background: #ff45f8;" | Plasma Dust
! class="unsortable" style="background: #3bbcff;" | Water
! class="unsortable" style="background: #3bbcff;" | Water
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
! [[File:Slimegrey.png|32px]] Grey Slime  
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimegrey.png|32px]] Grey Slime  
| 0
| 0
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Monkey Cubes
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Monkey Cubes
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | [[Guide to Chemistry#Epinephrine|Epinephrine]]
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | [[Guide to Chemistry#Epinephrine|Epinephrine]]
|-  
|-  
! [[File:Slimeorange.png]] Orange Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimeorange.png|32px]] Orange Slime
| 1
| 1
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="Can be used in peppersprays.">Capsaicin</span>
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="Can be used in peppersprays.">Capsaicin</span>{{Anchor|Capsaicin}}
| style="background: #ffb7fc;" | Small fire
| style="background: #ffb7fc;" | Small fire
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimepurple.png]] Purple Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimepurple.png|32px]] Purple Slime
| 1
| 1
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimeblue.png]] Blue Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimeblue.png|32px]] Blue Slime
| 1
| 1
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="Significantly reduces a slime's mutation chance, and carries through across generations.">Slime Stabilizer</span>
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="Significantly reduces a slime's mutation chance, and carries through across generations.">Slime Stabilizer</span>
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
! [[File:Slimemetal.png]] Metal Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimemetal.png|32px]] Metal Slime
| 1
| 1
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Glass
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Glass
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimeyellow.png]] Yellow Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimeyellow.png|32px]] Yellow Slime
| 2
| 2
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | [[Guide to Chemistry#EMP|EMP]]
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | [[Guide to Chemistry#EMP|EMP]]
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Light
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Light
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimedarkpurple.png]] Dark Purple Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimedarkpurple.png|32px]] Dark Purple Slime
| 2
| 2
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimedarkblue.png]] Dark Blue Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimedarkblue.png|32px]] Dark Blue Slime
| 2
| 2
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | <span title="Makes articles of clothing heat-proof.">Fireproof Potion</span>
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | <span title="Makes articles of clothing heat-proof.">Fireproof Potion</span>
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
! [[File:Slimesilver.png]] Silver Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimesilver.png|32px]] Silver Slime
| 2
| 2
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Random drink
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Random drink
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimebluespace.png]] Bluespace Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimebluespace.png|32px]] Bluespace Slime
| 2.5
| 2.5
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="Increases movement speed.">Bluespace Floor</span>
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="Increases movement speed.">Bluespace Floor</span>
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimesepia.png]] Sepia Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimesepia.png|32px]] Sepia Slime
| 2.5
| 2.5
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Film, Camera, <span title="Decreases movement speed.">Sepia Floor</span>
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Film, Camera, <span title="Decreases movement speed.">Sepia Floor</span>
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimecerculean.png]] Cerulean Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimecerculean.png|32px]] Cerulean Slime
| 2.5
| 2.5
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="A single use blueprint that can rename an area while also coloring it a blueish hue. Naming an area to 'Xenobiology Lab' will expand your camera's range.">Slime Blueprints</span>
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | <span title="A single use blueprint that can rename an area while also coloring it a blueish hue. Naming an area to 'Xenobiology Lab' will expand your camera's range.">Slime Blueprints</span>
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
! [[File:Slimepyrite.png]] Pyrite Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimepyrite.png|32px]] Pyrite Slime
| 2.5
| 2.5
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimegreen.png]] Green Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimegreen.png|32px]] Green Slime
| 3
| 3
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimered.png]] Red Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimered.png|32px]] Red Slime
| 3
| 3
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Makes slimes rabid
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Makes slimes rabid
| style="background: #ffb7fc;" | <span title="Adds 12% to the probability a slime will mutate.">Slime Mutation Potion</span>
| style="background: #ffb7fc;" | <span title="Adds 12% to the probability a slime will mutate.">Slime Mutation Potion</span>
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | <span title="Removes the bulkiness and slowdown of items.">Slime Speed Potion</span>
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimepink.png]] Pink Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimepink.png|32px]] Pink Slime
| 3
| 3
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
! [[File:Slimegold.png]] Gold Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimegold.png|32px]] Gold Slime
| 3
| 3
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Spawns random mob
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Spawns random mob
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Spawns friendly critter
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" | Spawns friendly critter
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimeoil.png]] Oil Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimeoil.png|32px]] Oil Slime
| 4
| 4
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Oil Slick Potion
| style="background: #ffb7fc;" | Explosion
| style="background: #ffb7fc;" | Explosion
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimeblack.png]] Black Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimeblack.png|32px]] Black Slime
| 4
| 4
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimelightpink.png]] Light Pink Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimelightpink.png|32px]] Light Pink Slime
| 4
| 4
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
|- style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 0; border-color: #aaa;"
! [[File:Slimeadamantine.png]] Adamantine Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimeadamantine.png|32px]] Adamantine Slime
| 4
| 4
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" |  
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| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
| style="background: #b7e6ff;" |  
|-
|-
! [[File:Slimerainbow.png]] Rainbow Slime
! style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Slimerainbow.png|32px]] Rainbow Slime
| 5
| 5
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Consciousness Transfer Potion
| style="background: #ffb4b4;" | Consciousness Transfer Potion
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===Notes===
===Notes===
* [[File:Slimepurple.png]] Purple Slimes, if injected with sugar, will produce slime jelly. It is used in [[Guide to Food and Drinks|cooking]].
* [[File:Slimepurple.png|32px]] Purple Slimes, if injected with sugar, will produce slime jelly. It is used in [[Guide to Food|cooking]].
* [[File:Slimerainbow.png]] Rainbow Slimes can be achieved by breeding and splitting a slime with 100% mutation chance.
* [[File:Slimerainbow.png|32px]] Rainbow Slimes can be bred by breeding and splitting a slime with 100% mutation chance. Reached by using Slime Mutation Potions.  
* [[File:Slimeblack.png]] Black slimes can be used to make slimes or slime people. Injecting a black slime with plasma will create Advanced Mutation Toxin which can then be withdrawn into a usable form via an empty syringe from the core. Injecting another mob / player with an Advanced Mutation Toxin will turn them into a slime person then a slime given enough time. You can halt the process by administering Frost Oil, thus enabling you to turn someone into a slime person (if timed well) rather then a full slime.
* [[File:Slimeblack.png|32px]] Black Slimes can be used to make slimes or slime people. Injecting a black slime with plasma dust will create Advanced Mutation Toxin which can then be withdrawn into a usable form via an empty syringe from the core. Injecting another mob / player with an Advanced Mutation Toxin will turn them into a slime person then a slime given enough time. You can halt the process by administering Frost Oil, thus enabling you to turn someone into a slime person (if timed well) rather then a full slime.
* [[File:Slimesilver.png|32px]] Silver Slimes, when injected with plasma dust to create food, will additionally create a blinding flash, this can, and will blind you without proper eye protection, doubly so if you're one of the species that takes more of that damage.


== So You're a Traitor ==
== So You're a Traitor ==


What you can get here that can't be gotten easier elsewhere is an EMP and <s>random hostile animals which include a few very deadly ones</s> BEACONS SPACE BEARS ALIUMS SPIDERS HIVEBOTS PINE TREES OH GOD IT'S HORRIFYING. Releasing the slimes is somewhat viable, but you will likely get caught doing so, and baby slimes are rather tame (Unless you have Red Slime Essence. Then it's a party.)
As a Xenobiologist Antagonist, you have full access to a variety of interesting and powerful, if not situational tools. The internal and external air-locks affectively make your lab akin to a fortified bunker, and you'll always have a   
 
way out via your disposals chute, which leads into space. The many lockers in your lab provide several hiding spots for when you just can't risk having contraband found on you.  
On the plus side, you do have a disposal chute that goes directly to space. Pretty handy for disposing of evidence, or people.
 
Also remember the havoc with grenades and bombs you can cause! If you can get access to chemistry as well you can make some interesting grenades. Advanced mutation toxin with sugar in one beaker, phosphorus and potassium in the other. Set a timer in the [[Medbay]] and drop it and listen to all the people turning into Slimes. This is when you laugh to yourself and realize it backfires when all the slimes attack you.


A full guide to ruining someone's day with slimes:
A prompt guide to ruining someone's day with slimes:


* [[File:Slimered.png]] Red - Makes all slimes within sight range hyper aggressive.
* [[File:Slimered.png|32px]] Red - Makes all slimes within sight range hyper aggressive.
* [[File:Slimegreen.png]] Green - Turns people into a shadow person.  Keep in mind this is not the same as a shadowling.
* [[File:Slimegreen.png|32px]] Green - Turns people into a shadow person.
* [[File:Slimeblack.png]] Black - Produces 5 units of a chemical that turns into pet slimes (i.e. ''NOT'' slime people - just a regular old slime after using potion from pink slime. complelty harmless, but you do ruin someones day if you turn them into a simple mob, or you can convience them to become slimeperson and frostblast them)
* [[File:Slimeblack.png|32px]] Black - Produces 5 units of a chemical that turns a player into a Slime.  
* [[File:Slimeorange.png]] Orange - Ignites a large fire.
* [[File:Slimeorange.png|32px]] Orange - Ignites a large fire.
* [[File:Slimeyellow.png]] Yellow - Huge EMP.
* [[File:Slimeyellow.png|32px]] Yellow - Huge EMP.
* [[File:Slimesilver.png]] Silver - Only way to get motherfucking GATFRUIT.
* [[File:Slimesilver.png|32px]] Silver - Only way to get Gatfruit, via spawning food, also emits a blinding flash.
* [[File:Slimegold.png]] Gold - We all know what this does.
* [[File:Slimegold.png|32px]] Gold - When injected with plasma dust spawns several dangerous aggressive mobs.
* [[File:Slimesepia.png]] Sepia - Stops time in a small radius, allowing you to wreak many kinds of havoc.
* [[File:Slimesepia.png|32px]] Sepia - Stops time in a small radius, allowing you to wreak havoc.
* [[File:Slimeoil.png]] Oil - Explosion. Pretty meh considering there's materials for IEDs everywhere.
* [[File:Slimeoil.png|32px]] Oil - Ignites a mediocre explosive.
* [[File:Slimeadamantine.png]] Adamantine - They have to follow orders given to them by their creator so feel free to make them suicide bomb with gold slime cores.
* [[File:Slimeadamantine.png|32px]] Adamantine - Golems must follow your orders, but cannot fire guns.
* [[File:Slimelightpink.png]] Light pink - Enables you to make sentient beings, including anything a gold slime extract can produce.  
* [[File:Slimelightpink.png|32px]] Light pink - Enables you to make sentient mobs, including anything a gold slime extract can produce.  


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Latest revision as of 18:04, 1 August 2024

Science Department


Xenobiology is the breeding and harvesting of slimes and their extracts for the purpose of creating resources, research and potions.

Home on the Range

Xenobiology

As a Xenobiologist, you’re not going to get out much. You’re the most autonomous area on the entire station if you know what you're doing, and nobody ever bothers you.

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 eastern end is a disposal unit that leads to space and left of this is the bread and butter of your job: Slime management console, which will be covered later.

To the west is the slime containment area with six pens. Three of these pens start with a baby grey slime. Some laboratories also contain an additional pen that can be used for for golden slime extract mobs or slimes.

Combatting Slimes in Xenobiology

Slimes are mostly docile creatures, and will not seek to break out of their cells unless they have been left without food for a prolonged period of time. Baby slimes will not be able to damage the glass, but in the case of Adult slimes, if left hungry a breach could occur. If any Slimes do find themselves outside of their pens, you can either pick them up with the Slime Management Console and move them to a more secure pen, or blast them with one of the numerous fire-extinguishers found in Xenobiology Lab. Slimes who are hostile will seek to latch onto the Scientist and deal cellular damage if left on for too long. Cellular damage can be mended via Cryo Cells in Medbay.

Efficiently managing your slimes

You should always have 1-6 slimes, depending on how many pens you are using. More and you can't control them properly. Less and your job is inefficient.

Feeding Slimes

Insert monkey cubes into the slime management console. You can now use the console to drop a monkey into a slime pen. The Slime will then move to feed off of the monkey.

  • Dropping in two monkeys for one slime, will save time and be more efficient than dropping in one.
  • Do not enter the pen and bash the monkey, the slime will get only less food.
  • Use the time between feedings to multi-task and work on other tasks, such as collecting slime extracts.

Harvesting Extracts

At this point, you should have grown several different types of slimes.

The basic method of killing slimes is using the kill chamber your laboratory is equipped with. The kill chamber is a giant freezer, where the temperature is low enough to kill all the slimes inside. Before usage make sure that the freezer in front of it is working and cooling. The downside of using this method is the need to manually move dead slimes to the processor with management console.

The more efficient method of killing slimes however, is to create a make-shift kill box using the Slime Processor, Monkey Recycler and Slime Extract Storage in combination with a shower. Using either of those methods will reduce close contact with slimes and eliminate the threat of slimes harming you or getting loose.

Machines such as the Slime Processor, Monkey Recycler and Slime Extract Storage can be un-wrenched and dragged, and wrenched again to anchor. A shower, found in the Xenobiology Lab Entrance, can be welded off the wall, and then applied onto another wall. The showers temperature can be modified by wrenching it. For the purpose of Xenobiology, it is recommended that the shower be toggled to freezing, as Slimes are weak to the cold and water.

Extracts, Used Extracts and Monkey Cubes can be scooped up with a bio bag. The bio bag can then be used to apply all the monkey cubes to a Slime Management Console at once, or load all slimes extracts into the Slime Extract Storage at once. Bio bags can be found in the level-3 biohazard suit closets.

Aggressive Slimes

If you are not feeding a slime enough or attack a slime. They will become aggressive towards you.

Slimes have three attacks: A glomp that does brute damage, with adults dealing more, and a chance to stun. A shocking attack that will stun you, and a 'feeding' attack that empowers the slime and deals cellular damage, an uncommon and difficult to heal damage type. If a slime starts feeding on you, wrestle it off with disarm intent and spray it down with an extinguisher until it dies. After that, hobble off to Medbay for healing.

Slime Genealogy 101

There are several different types of slime. You begin with two grey slimes, but you can breed them to farm all kinds of different slimes! Each kind of slime has its extract with special properties.

When a slime splits by being fed enough, it has a chance to mutate based on it's individual mutation chance; a stat discovered by either using a Slime Scanner on a slime, or the Slime Management Console Scanner. 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 mutation, and if you want to get Adamantine slimes, you'll want a higher mutation chance!

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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Formulas

All injections require one unit of reagent. Use a syringe to inject the extract. You may dilute the reagent with a chemical (such as oxygen) to use less of it. Use a 4:1 ratio (ex: 40u oxygen, 10u plasma dust).

Name Tier Blood Plasma Dust Water
Slimegrey.png Grey Slime 0 Monkey Cubes Grey Slime Epinephrine
Slimeorange.png Orange Slime 1 Capsaicin Small fire
Slimepurple.png Purple Slime 1 Slime Steroid
Slimeblue.png Blue Slime 1 Slime Stabilizer Frost Oil
Slimemetal.png Metal Slime 1 Metal and Plasteel Glass
Slimeyellow.png Yellow Slime 2 EMP Yellow Slime Core Light
Slimedarkpurple.png Dark Purple Slime 2 Solid Plasma
Slimedarkblue.png Dark Blue Slime 2 Burst of cold Fireproof Potion
Slimesilver.png Silver Slime 2 Random food Random drink
Slimebluespace.png Bluespace Slime 2.5 Bluespace Floor Bluespace Crystal
Slimesepia.png Sepia Slime 2.5 Film, Camera, Sepia Floor Stops time
Slimecerculean.png Cerulean Slime 2.5 Slime Blueprints Extract Enhancer
Slimepyrite.png Pyrite Slime 2.5 Can of Paint
Slimegreen.png Green Slime 3 Mutation Toxin
Slimered.png Red Slime 3 Makes slimes rabid Slime Mutation Potion
Slimepink.png Pink Slime 3 Docility Potion
Slimegold.png Gold Slime 3 Spawns random mob Spawns hostile mob Spawns friendly critter
Slimeoil.png Oil Slime 4 Oil Slick Potion Explosion
Slimeblack.png Black Slime 4 Advanced Mutation Toxin
Slimelightpink.png Light Pink Slime 4 Sentience Potion
Slimeadamantine.png Adamantine Slime 4 Adamantine Bar
Slimerainbow.png Rainbow Slime 5 Consciousness Transfer Potion Spawns random slime

Notes

  • Slimepurple.png Purple Slimes, if injected with sugar, will produce slime jelly. It is used in cooking.
  • Slimerainbow.png Rainbow Slimes can be bred by breeding and splitting a slime with 100% mutation chance. Reached by using Slime Mutation Potions.
  • Slimeblack.png Black Slimes can be used to make slimes or slime people. Injecting a black slime with plasma dust will create Advanced Mutation Toxin which can then be withdrawn into a usable form via an empty syringe from the core. Injecting another mob / player with an Advanced Mutation Toxin will turn them into a slime person then a slime given enough time. You can halt the process by administering Frost Oil, thus enabling you to turn someone into a slime person (if timed well) rather then a full slime.
  • Slimesilver.png Silver Slimes, when injected with plasma dust to create food, will additionally create a blinding flash, this can, and will blind you without proper eye protection, doubly so if you're one of the species that takes more of that damage.

So You're a Traitor

As a Xenobiologist Antagonist, you have full access to a variety of interesting and powerful, if not situational tools. The internal and external air-locks affectively make your lab akin to a fortified bunker, and you'll always have a way out via your disposals chute, which leads into space. The many lockers in your lab provide several hiding spots for when you just can't risk having contraband found on you.

A prompt guide to ruining someone's day with slimes:

  • Slimered.png Red - Makes all slimes within sight range hyper aggressive.
  • Slimegreen.png Green - Turns people into a shadow person.
  • Slimeblack.png Black - Produces 5 units of a chemical that turns a player into a Slime.
  • Slimeorange.png Orange - Ignites a large fire.
  • Slimeyellow.png Yellow - Huge EMP.
  • Slimesilver.png Silver - Only way to get Gatfruit, via spawning food, also emits a blinding flash.
  • Slimegold.png Gold - When injected with plasma dust spawns several dangerous aggressive mobs.
  • Slimesepia.png Sepia - Stops time in a small radius, allowing you to wreak havoc.
  • Slimeoil.png Oil - Ignites a mediocre explosive.
  • Slimeadamantine.png Adamantine - Golems must follow your orders, but cannot fire guns.
  • Slimelightpink.png Light pink - Enables you to make sentient mobs, including anything a gold slime extract can produce.