Slimefun

## What is Slimefun?

**Slimefun** is a plugin designed to enchance and extend the late-game experience of Minecraft. It requires a good source of XP as there are over 200 new items each requiring several levels of XP to unlock, with most items being dependent on base Slimefun 'ingredients' to make. Items range from tools with unique enchantments/effects such as the Explosive Pickaxe, to auto-disenchanter/enchanter benches, or even nuclear reactors!

### **Infinity**

We have also included the sub-addon **Infinity**, which adds an extra layer of late-game content to Slimefun, such as megastorage barrels, or upgraded versions of most electric machines.

### Exotic Garden

Exotic Garden can be a very powerful sub-addon, which among other things allows for the creation of **Magical** **Plants**, introducing completely renewable ways of generating valuable resources as precious as **netherite** **or diamonds**. It also allows for the creation of new foods and drinks, which can be stored en-masse in an inventory **Cooler** and consumed automatically to restore hunger.

## How do I unlock stuff?

The Slimefun guide is your trusty companion. Use **/sf guide** to be given the guide, and right-click to open the menu. Several categories are locked in the beginning, requiring a dependent category to be fully unlocked (mostly for progression purposes). These include **Ender Talismans** (requiring normal **Talismans**), **Energy and Electricity** (requiring **Basic Machines**), and **GPS and Navigation** (also requiring **Basic Machines**).

Also worth noting is that some items are unlocked as part of a group, such as a set of armor or machines with the same basic function.

### The Basic Strategy

As higher XP levels become increasingly harder to reach the more you level up, it is **Strongly** recommended that you unlock relevant items as close to your current level as possible. For example at level 26 unlocking an item worth 25 levels is a better use of XP than several items adding up to 10, 8, 4, 2 levels respectively, even though they amount to the same number of levels lost overall.

The total levels required for unlocking all of Slimefun is well above what would be reasonable without an XP farm, or extensive quartz mining initially. Blaze spawners are the only naturally occuring spawners on this server, so it is recommended that you use them for an XP farm until you can unlock and create **Reinforced Spawners**, which are moveable Slimefun spawners crafted from any type of broken spawner from **/aspa**, which include Skeleton, Zombie, Spider, and Blaze spawners.

### Removed Items

Finally, some items have been removed for balance purposes, including the **Oil Drill**, the **GPS Miner**, and the **Staff of Whirlwinds**. Sadly these are used in crafting further items, though we are currently looking at ways to circumvent this for the player to progress normally, and their main uses are for VERY late-game items such as Infinity.

## Where do I begin?

You should begin after establishing a base/town to work from, you have access to good enchanted gear such as **Fortune**, **Looting**, **Efficiency** etc as you will need to extensively harvest resources from both mobs and the terrain in order to create more advanced Slimefun items. Do **NOT** underestimate the time it will take to progress through Slimefun, as even the most optimal routes towards unlocking everything will require many hours of work: the laboring of weeks->months, though you will certainly be able to establish yourself in Slimefun within a short time by following this guide.

You can also watch useful tutorial series' on Youtube such as this excellent playlist made by the Youtuber ManifesDough.

### Useful tools

The **Gold Pan** is a very useful for sifting gravel initially. It is recommended that you only use this until you have access to **Output Chests**, A **Grind Stone** and an **Automated Panning Machine** though, as you will be able to convert large amounts of cobblestone into gravel, and gravel into **Sifted Ore** using both machines respectively.

### Basic Machines

It is recommended to near-exclusively focus on **Basic Machines** to start off. These mostly only require very basic blocks to craft, such as dispensers, fences etc. and many will remain useful throughout your Slimefun career. They are multi-block structures: meaning they require a specific arrangement of blocks to work properly. Basic Machines are also notable for (mostly) requiring manual input from the player, right-clicking a set block to make the machine work. It is recommended that you use some way of rapidly generating right-clicks, such as a macro-key or binding right-click to a keyboard key while using Slimefun Machines, as this will prevent hand injury or mouse wear from prolonged spam-clicking.

#### Enchanced Crafting Table

The **Enchanced Crafting Table** is a basic machine that requires an upward-facing dispenser placed below a crafting table. This allows for the crafting of most Slimefun items, though like most basic machines requires an **Output Chest** to not clog the input with crafted items -ergo stopping the crafting of more items when crafting multiple items at once.

#### Output Chest

The **Output Chest** is a very useful 'earlygame' chest that directly stores the output from any **Basic Machine**, preventing crafted items from cluttering the machines they were crafted from.

#### Grind Stone

The **Grind Stone** is a machine for grinding down base items into their reduced forms, such as blaze rods into blaze powder, bones into bonemeal, or new recipes such as **cobblestone into gravel**. this machine will remain useful throughout your slimefun career. as it is necessary to make items useful later on such as **Ender/Magical Lumps**, coal/**Carbon** from diamonds, or items used for **Exotic Plants**.

A useful thing to note about this machine is that it increases the bonemeal and blaze powder generated from bones and blaze rods respectively by 1, making this machine useful for producing large quantities of these resources, *potentially to sell perhaps?*

#### Automatic Panning Machine

The **Automatic Panning Machine** allows the user to sift gravel in their hand to (hopefully) generate **Sifted Ore**, while making clay balls, iron nuggets and flint as biproducts. It can also be used with soul sand as an alternate source of ghast tears, netherwart, blaze powder, gold nuggest and glowstone dust.