Feral Slimes (Slime Rancher 2)

## Information

### Special Behavior or Properties

* Will attempt to bite Beatrix.
* Can perform an Area of Effect buttstomp.
* Source slime behaviours

**Feral Slimes** are a variant of Largo Slimes that are hostile towards Beatrix.

## Slimepedia Entry

***Slimeology:***

*Feral slimes are largos with a mean streak that will attack a rancher on sight. It's not known what exactly causes a largo to become so grumpy that it goes feral, but it's suspected that they've simply gone too long without a bite to eat. Like so many things with slimes, food is everything.*

*If a feral slime eats, it will revert to a normal largo.*

***Rancher Risks:***

*Feral slimes can pose a serious risk to ranchers if they're not dealt with quickly, or avoided altogether. Feral slimes will attempt to bite ranchers at close range or jump in the air and try to stomp them with their... butts? In any case, a rancher needs to act fast and feed the feral slime something tasty to avoid such troubles.*

***Plortonomics***

*Feeding a feral slime not only calms it down, but also produces plorts in the same manner as a largo. Though, there are certainly easier ways out there to acquire plorts!*

## Spawn Locations

* **Pink Rocks** -

* **Boom Rocks** -

* **Pink Phosphors** -

* **Pink Booms** -

* **Pink Rads** -

* **Boom Rads** -

* **Rock Tabbies** -

* **Honey Hunters** -

* **Boom Hunters** -

* **Hunter Largos** -

* **Saber Largos** -

## Tips

* Feral slimes are easily recognizable from the flashing red sparks, the shadows on their faces, their grumpy face, and red eyes.
* All naturally occurring feral largos can eat Meat.
* On Adventure Mode, Feral Slimes also have an Area Of Effect (AOE) buttstomp attack; if you see a feral jumping in the air, it's preparing to whomp you! They also make a distinct sound when launching.
* You can tame feral slimes with a Taming Bell.
* The Pulse Wave upgrade is effective on largos; if in doubt, try to shoot them into The Slime Sea.
* As a last resort, you can feed a feral slime a plort it doesn't produce to cause a Tarr outbreak; since a horde of Tarr can be dispatched with Water, which makes them easier to deal with feral slimes.
* Most feral slimes at the beginning of the game are Phosphor/Pink, so you can avoid encountering them entirely if you go through the area during the day.

## Trivia

* Feral Slimes are said to be the result of Largo Slimes being grumpy due to going a long period of time without food. However, the only largo that can naturally revert to a feral state when agitated are Hunter Largos. They used to do this before 0.2.0, but this was removed from the game since it didn't feel right.
* The icon which represents feral slimes are Pink Tabbies, yet no feral slimes of that largo combination naturally spawn in-game. However it is interesting to note that a Pink Tabby was shown during development of the current appearence of feral slimes.
* Prior to 0.3.0, all Feral Slimes were a Pink Largo.
* Not including becoming a Hunter Largo, the only slimes that have no naturally-occuring feral counterpart are the Crystal, Quantum, Mosaic, Tangle and Dervish Slimes.
* Naturally spawned ferals will despawn after 3 ingame hours. This timer is stopped when the feral is fed.
* Ferals will always eat to be calmed regardless of their Hunger value.

## References

1. ↑ http://forums.monomipark.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2735&p=23566 - A Monomi Park dev states this.