Slime pots

Slime pots are a feature in Potionomics. You receive the first one after defeating Corsac, and can then buy additional ones from his shop. With these slime pots, the player is able to clone an item by feeding it to a slime.

When you feed a hungry slime an ingredient, it will spend the next 2-6 time slots (higher magimin totals take longer) digesting it, after which you can harvest two of the ingredient back from the slime, for a net increase of 1. While it's digesting, you can feed it additional ingredients to fill its gauge according to the ingredient's magimin total, increasing the size of the harvest at the end.

Any slime can duplicate any ingredient, but feeding the slime an ingredient with at least one magimin matching its color has significant benefits:

* The time to duplicate the ingredient is cut in half. It still takes a minimum of 2 time slots, so this just reduces the possible time range from 2-6 to 2-3.
* When feeding additional ingredients, the magimin total counts double towards filling the gauge. For example, feeding the Red Slime a Kappa Pheromone (4 Red, 4 Yellow) will increase the gauge by 16, rather than 8.

## Magimin Calculations

The initial number of Magimins needed to move from 2x to 3x is calculated using the Magimins in the duplicated ingredient. Red Magimins cost less than Green, which cost less than Yellow, the pattern continuing through Blue and Purple. Traits can further alter initial cost. For instance, ingredients with the following Magimins have corresponding initial costs:

* 4 Red Magimins, Smells Good - 42 Magimins
* 6 Red Magimins - 42 Magimins
* 30 Red Magimins - 50 Magimins
* 30 Green Magimins - 55 Magimins
* 30 Yellow Magimins - 60 Magimins
* 30 Blue Magimins - 72 Magimins
* 30 Purple Magimins, Looks Bad, Sounds Good - 84 Magimins
* 10 Red, 10 Green, 10 Yellow Magimins, Looks Good - 66 Magimins

Once the initial cost for further duplication has been set, each additional duplicate costs an exponentially larger amount. Examples can be seen below:

Fairy Flower Bulb - 4 Red Magimins, Smells Good

* 2x - 0 Magimins
* 3x - 42 Magimins
* 4x - 99 Magimins
* 5x - 177 Magimins
* 6x - 282 Magimins
* 7x - 420 Magimins

Feyberry - 6 Red Magimins

* 2x - 0 Magimins
* 3x - 42 Magimins
* 4x - 99 Magimins
* 5x - 177 Magimins
* 6x - 282 Magimins
* 7x - 420 Magimins

Puckberry - 18 Red Magimins

* 2x - 0 Magimins
* 3x - 46 Magimins
* 4x - 108 Magimins
* 5x - 193 Magimins
* 6x - 308 Magimins
* 7x - 459 Magimins

Bogeyberry - 30 Red Magimins

* 2x - 0 Magimins
* 3x - 50 Magimins
* 4x - 118 Magimins
* 5x - 211 Magimins
* 6x - 337 Magimins
* 7x - 502 Magimins

## Strategy

The cost to increase the harvest starts at 40, but increases very slowly as the duplicated ingredient's magimin total rises. This makes it very efficient to clone high-magimin ingredients, such as Mana Vortex, so they should be preferred for cloning, while you buy lower-magimin ingredients from Quinn instead.

While ingredients traits have an effect on how the slime clones an ingredient, they have no effect when used as fertilizer. High-magimin ingredients that are "balanced" with bad traits can thus be usefully recycled into slime fertilizer to increase the yield of your more valuable good-trait ingredients.

All of the Pure Mana ingredients are extremely valuable in cloning - they have all five magimins, so they're both fast when cloning and count double when fertilizing, regardless of which slime you're using. They're also some of the most expensive ingredients to buy from Quinn, so cloning them instead is an incredible money-saver.