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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 below toxins mixing 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 ==
[[File:xenobiology2.png|400px|thumb|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)]].


== Familiarize Yourself ==
First, get familiar with your new home.
First, get familiar with your new home.
[[File:Xenobio.png|frame|center|Xenobiology]]


In the center is a table with four monkey cube boxes, a grinder for plasma, some plasma, and boxes of syringes and beakers. To the west of the center table there is a closet with a bio suit in it.
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: The Slime 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 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.
 
===Genocide Now: The Slime Console and You===
 
The Slime Console is a semi-new addition to the Xenobiology scene that 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! If for some reason however you want to do Xenobiology the old-fashioned way the way your pappy taught you, then this guide will still help you.


The extracting area to the east has a operating table for extracting from slimes, some operating tools, and a smartfridge modified to hold slime extracts. On the wall there is also a medikit in case of accidents. Note: Be careful when dumping things down the disposal in the slime extracting area. It leads directly to space!
If you're using the console, I'd strongly advise 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.


In a semicircle around the center there are six slime pens, two of which start with a baby grey slime in them. You can lock any of them down by pressing the button on the table. The pen to the very bottom east can also be flushed out to space.
===General Advice on how to Not Get Eaten===


== Get equipped ==
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''.
Before you start breeding the slimes, make sure you have a fire extinguisher in your backpack or hand and a water-tank ready nearby. Both of which are luckily available right here in Xenobiology! (If you are having trouble finding the extinguisher, it is in a case on the wall to the north.)


It's also rather handy to have a full toolbox on hand.You can get one from the main lab.This will ensure if you or your coworkers have prosthetics,you can repair them,as well as allow you to renovate the lab to better suit your needs.
If you aren't, 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!


In addition, you also want a supply of monkeys, available through the monkey-cubes on the table. Simply unwrap them, spray with water and shove into the disposal tube into the pen.
== Exploiting Lesser Species Optimally: A Guide ==


You can also bug R&D for Temperature Gun, set it to lowest temperature and congratulations you now have weapon that instantly kills the 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.


== Gotta catch em' all! ==
=== It Hungers... For More! ===
There are several 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 it's extract.


When well fed an adult slime will split into 4 slimes with a 30% chance of mutating each. In theory, this means a ~76% chance of at least one mutation, but this is not something you should count on. This flowchart shows the results of each slime's mutations when splitting, with options labeled "2x" having twice the chance of occurring.
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. Wait for the slime to grow, then load another monkey and wait for the slime to split.
 
* As tempting as it may be, do not send in two monkeys at once. The slime might decide the second is a friend and refuse to eat it.
* Do NOT enter the pen and bash the monkey, the only thing that will happen is slime will get less food.
* Make sure to stay in sight of the slimes to keep a eye on when they grow and split.
 
=== Slaughter Time ===
 
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.
 
=== Rip My Heart Out ===
 
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 then one dead slime in at a time, however this will increase the processing time.
 
=== Genocide? ===
 
If all the slimes are dead, <strike>job's over man, job's over</strike> hope you have a grey slime extract, if not, then job's over man, job's over!
 
== 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 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.
 
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.
 
=== THEY'RE EATING HER... AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME! OH MY GOOOOOOOOD! ===
 
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 clone damage and empowers the slime, a rare and very difficult to hear 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/or 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]].
 
==Gotta Catch Em' All!==
 
There are <strike>several</strike> a fuckload of different flavors 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. 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.
 
'''NOTE:''' You can increase a slime's chance of mutation by injecting it with plasma and decrease it by injecting it with inaprovaline.
 
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]]
[[File:Slime_geneology2.png]]


=== Recommended Slimes ===
== Formulas ==
While this part is purely optional to follow, it is HIGHLY recommended to breed at least one or two dark purple slimes as fast as you can for additional plasma (Or you can yell at the miners...)
 
All injections require one unit of reagent. Dropper is your friend.


In addition, making sure to keep at least one pen producing grey slimes is a very good idea in order to have a sustainable monkey flow.
=== Tier 0 ===


Purple slimes are a likely by-product of trying to get Dark Purple slimes and have the added benefit of that injecting the slime steroids into the Greys and the Dark Purples will significantly increase plasma/monkey amounts gained. Try out harvesting one baby purple and then using the steroids from it on a second baby purple! Repeat as necessary.
{{anchor|Grey Slime}}
'''Grey Slime'''
[[File:slimegrey.png]]
* Extract creates a grey slime when injected with plasma. Useful as a backup grey slime.
* Extract creates three monkey-cubes when injected with blood. Useful if you want to do your job for more than five minutes.


A slightly harder but very much worth it alternative to Purple slimes would be Cerulean slimes. They have two primary benefits:
=== Tier 1 ===
* They do not evolve further, meaning you are assured without using steroids or enhancers three cerulean extracts and one breeding slime.
* The result of injecting their extract with plasma is extract enhancer, which allows three uses of any given extract. The benefit of this is that you do not need to decide ahead of time which extracts you want more uses of like steroids. And combined WITH Steroids, a single slime can give nine uses.


== Population Control ==
{{anchor|Orange Slime}}
'''THIS [[File:Extinguisher.png]]IS GOING TO BE YOUR BEST FRIEND, HAVE ONE AT ALL TIMES'''
'''Orange Slime'''
[[File:slimeorange.png]]
* Extract creates a small fire when injected with plasma. Also increases the pressure of the air a fair amount.
* Extract creates capsaicin (pepper-spray) when injected with blood. Usable as a 'ghetto stun' if you can find a good way to apply it to to your <strike>victim</strike> test subject.


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 over.
{{anchor|Purple Slime}}
'''Purple Slime'''
[[File:slimepurple.png]]
* Extract creates a bottle of slime steroid when injected with plasma. Slime steroid is a potent chemical mix that will cause a slime to produce three extracts rather than two when processed. Useful when used on dark purple slimes for that plasma or grey slimes for monkeys.
* Extract creates slime jelly, a highly toxic substance, when injected with sugar.


Decide how many you can handle at once, keeping in mind the adults split into four when sated.
{{anchor|Blue Slime}}
'''Blue Slime'''
[[File:slimeblue.png]]
* Extract creates frost oil when injected with plasma.
* Extract creates slime stabilizer when injected with blood. Significantly reduces a slime's mutation chance, and carries through across generations.


=== All slimes dead ===
{{anchor|Metal Slime}}
<strike>Job's over, man. Job's over!</strike> Hope you have a grey slime extract, if not, then your job's over, man. Job's over!
'''Metal Slime'''
[[File:slimemetal.png]]
* Extract creates several sheets of plasteel and metal when injected with plasma. Expect the roboticists to want the products.


=== 1-6 baby slimes ===
=== Tier 2 ===
If you need more extracts put one monkey in the disposal and wait for the slime(s) to grow, then another and wait for the slime(s) to split.
As tempting as it may be, do not send in two monkeys at once. The slime might decide the second is a friend and refuse to eat it!
You might want to make sure to stay in sight of the slimes to keep an eye on when they grow and split.


[[File:Slimecontrol.png|thumb|Slime Crowd Control]]
{{anchor|Yellow Slime}}
=== Adult slimes have split ===
'''Yellow Slime'''
Time to kill one (or more). '''Warning:''' This is the part of the job that's most likely to get you killed.
[[File:slimeyellow.png]]
* Extracts become 10k Charge [[Powercell]]s when injected with plasma.
* Extract creates an EMP when injected with blood. It's a quite big blast as well, useful if that AI is onto your [[traitor|tricks]].
* Extracts emit light when injected with water.


Ideally, you want to do this the EXACT moment after the slime in the pen (You ARE keeping only one adult slime per pen, right?) has split.
{{anchor|Dark Purple Slime}}
'''Dark Purple Slime'''
[[File:slimedarkpurple.png]]
* Extract creates several sheets of [[Plasma|Solid Plasma]] when injected with plasma. Yessir, NT can link anything to the production of plasma. Also useful for further experimenting.


Select which slime(s) you want to breed (If multiple, put in a empty pen or make room in a occupied one) and proceed to drag the ones you want to cull into the tiny 'airlock' of the pen with you.
{{anchor|Dark Blue Slime}}
'''Dark Blue Slime'''
[[File:slimedarkblue.png]]
* Extract creates a burst of cold when injected with plasma. Useful for countering those red slimes. Will kill most slimes dead, if you have 'population issues'.


Do not worry, as long as you are regarded as a 'friend' (Which you should be, if you feed it and kept in sight) and they are not extremely hungry, the slimes should not feed on you. They might still cause some brute damage if you take too long though.
{{anchor|Silver Slime}}
'''Silver Slime'''
[[File:slimesilver.png]]
* Extract creates a small amount of random food when injected with plasma, bork bork bork. Expect anything from a roburger to death berries.
* Extract creates a small amount of random drinks when injected with water, bork bork bork.


Once you have them there, simply spray with water. Once the ones you don't want are dead, feed the remaining slimes, harvesting extracts as needed.
=== Tier 2.5 ===


=== A slime wants to be your special friend ===
{{anchor|Bluespace Slime}}
So you managed to piss it off, eh? Your safest bet here is to push it off you (Help or Disarm Intent on the Slime) and leg it, quite simply. Hide in a locker and yell for help if you can't get out of xenobiology itself.
'''Bluespace Slime'''
[[File:slimebluespace.png]]
*Extract will, if injected with plasma, spawn a [[Bluespace Crystal]]. They will teleport you when crushed in your hand and teleport anyone you throw it at. It also has some good research levels.
*Extract will, if injected with blood, create Bluespace Floor Tiles, which speed up movement drastically.


== Extract Harvesting ==
{{anchor|Sepia Slime}}
<s>Drag the dead slime over to the operating table and set your intent to grab.<br>
'''Sepia Slime'''
Get a grab on it and click on the table to lay it down. Then use a scalpel on the slime twice, and after that use your circular saw until the slime is out of extracts. (There is usually only one extract)</s>
[[File:slimesepia.png]]
* Extract stops time when injected with plasma. How? <strike>Spess</strike>Slime Magic!
* Extract creates some [[Camera|Film]] and a [[Camera]] when injected with blood. Fuck this is so useless.


Drag the dead slime to the slime processor, then click it. After a few seconds, you should get the extract(s).
{{anchor|Cerulean Slime}}
'''Cerulean Slime'''
[[File:slimecerculean.png]]
* Extract creates a bottle of extract enhancer when injected with plasma. When used on a extract it triples the amount of uses it has. You can start laughing madly now. This does not work on all extracts, notably Adamantine, so no creating a infinite army of hard to destroy golems.
* Currently doesn't work in the current version of the code. Probably will get a new effect in the future.


<!--
{{anchor|Pyrite Slime}}
Plasma template:
'''Pyrite Slime'''
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
[[File:slimepyrite.png]]
* Extract creates a can of paint when injected with plasma. For the love of all that is holy, <s>don't</s> give it to the clown!


Blood template:
=== Tier 3 ===
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood


Water template:
{{anchor|Red Slime}}
| style="color: skyblue; background: darkblue; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Water
'''Red Slime'''
[[File:slimered.png]]
* Extract creates a bottle of slime mutation potion when injected with plasma. Makes slimes more likely to mutate, the opposite of the slime stabilizer.
* Extract makes nearby slimes rabid when injected with blood. Has some [[traitor|fun]] uses.


Sugar template:
{{anchor|Green Slime}}
| style="color: lightyellow; background: darkorange; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Sugar
'''Green Slime'''
-->
[[File:slimegreen.png]]
* Extract creates one unit of mutation toxin when injected with plasma. Injecting yourself with it will turn you into a slime-(wo)man. This results in the slimes never attacking you, but keep in mind though that you are no longer technically 'human' as far as the AI and Cyborgs are concerned. The toxin is found in the used extract. Your blood also is no longer 'valid' for the purpose of blood based reactions with extracts. In addition, injecting the extract with radium creates one unit of unstable mutation toxin instead, which causes a random humanoid mutation, such as a zombie or an abductor.


== Formulas ==
{{anchor|Pink Slime}}
{| class="wikitable"
'''Pink Slime'''
|-
[[File:slimepink.png]]
! width="120px" | Name
* Extract creates a bottle of docility potion when injected with plasma, a potent chemical mix that will nullify a slime's powers, causing it to become docile and tame. You too can have your own pet, just like the HoP!
! width="100px" | Injection
 
! width="auto"  | Effect
{{anchor|Gold Slime}}
|-
'''Gold Slime'''
! rowspan=3 | [[File:slimegrey.png|32px]]<br />Grey Slime
[[File:slimegold.png]]
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
* Extract spawns a few random [[Critters#Hostile|hostile mob]]s when injected with plasma. [[Alien]]s are common from this reaction, so you might be able to fill xenobiology with actual xenomorphs!
| Extracts create a grey slime, could be useful if you have too many slimes, but want to make sure you don't run out of them.
* Extract spawns one random mob when injected with blood. These mobs are not immediately hostile, but may be provoked by certain actions, proximity to other creatures (such as your slimes) or if they encounter a construct or mech. NOW you might be able to fill xenobiology with actual xenomorphs [[Beyond the impossible|without killing yourself!]]
|-
* Extract spawns one random [[Critters#Friendly|friendly critter]] when injected with water. Now you can fill xenobiology with mobs even if you're a giant pussy!
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood
 
| Extracts create three monkey-cubes
=== Tier 4 ===
|-
 
| style="color: skyblue; background: darkblue; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Water
{{anchor|Oil Slime}}
| Extracts create epinephrine.
'''Oil Slime'''
|-
[[File:slimeoil.png]]
! [[File:slimegreen.png|32px]]<br />Green Slime
* Extract creates a explosion after a moment when injected with plasma.
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
 
| Extracts create one unit of mutation toxin. injecting the mutation toxin will turn you into a shadow person which can only survive in the darkness, this will most likely kill you. (Note, This mutation toxin does '''not''' turn you into a [[Shadowling]], it turns you into a [https://github.com/ParadiseSS13/Paradise/blob/master/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/species/shadow.dm Shadow '''Person'''], which is a completely different species.)
{{anchor|Black Slime}}
|-
'''Black Slime'''
! [[File:slimeblue.png|32px]]<br />Blue Slime
[[File:slimeblack.png]]
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
* Extract creates one unit of advanced mutation toxin when injected with plasma. Turns you, or [[Traitor|others]], into a sentient baby slime.
| Extracts create frost oil.
 
|-
{{anchor|Light Pink Slime}}
! rowspan=2 | [[File:slimeorange.png|32px]]<br />Orange Slime
'''Light Pink Slime'''
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
[[File:slimelightpink.png]]
| Extracts create a small fire. Also increases the pressure of the air a fair amount.
* Extract creates a bottle of sentience potion when injected with plasma, a potent chemical mix that will bring human level intelligence to any animal, slime, ape, monster or generally active thing you feed it to. Make [[Ian]] sentient! Create an army of gold slime minions! The possibilities are limited only by your own deviousness and the number of ghosts in the round.
|-
 
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood
{{anchor|Adamantine Slime}}
| Extracts create capsaicin (pepper-spray). Usable as a ''"ghetto stun"'' if you can find a good way to apply it to to your <strike>victim</strike> test subject.
'''Adamantine Slime'''
|-
[[File:slimeadamantine.png]]
! [[File:slimeoil.png|32px]]<br />Oil Slime
* Extract creates a [[Adamantine Golem]] when injected with Plasma. It will follow its creator's orders much like a construct.
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
 
| Extracts create a explosion after a moment.
=== Special Slimes ===
|-
! [[File:slimeblack.png|32px]]<br />Black Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create one unit of advanced mutation toxin. Turns you into a baby slime.
|-
! [[File:slimeadamantine.png|32px]]<br />Adamantine Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create an Adamantine golem. It will follow its creator's orders much like [[Construct]].
|-
! rowspan=3 | [[File:slimered.png|32px]]<br />Red Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create Slime Glycerol.
|-
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood
| Extracts makes nearby slimes rabid. Has some [[Traitor|fun]] uses.
|-
| style="color: skyblue; background: darkblue; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Water
| Extracts create a chemical mix which can be applied to a single piece of clothing to make it weightless. Allows faster movement when wearing heavier gear such as hardsuits.
|-
! rowspan=2 | [[File:slimedarkblue.png|32px]]<br />Dark Blue Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create a burst of cold. Useful for countering those red slimes.
|-
| style="color: skyblue; background: darkblue; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Water
| Extracts create a chemical mix which can be used to fireproof clothes, each mix can be applied to three pieces of clothing.
|-
! rowspan=2 | [[File:slimepurple.png|32px]]<br />Purple Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create a bottle of slime steroid, a potent chemical mix that will cause a slime to generate more extract. Useful when used on dark purple slimes for that plasma or grey slimes for monkeys.
|-
| style="color: lightyellow; background: darkorange; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Sugar
| Extracts create slime jelly, a highly toxic substance.
|-
! [[File:slimedarkpurple.png|32px]]<br />Dark Purple Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create several sheets of plasma, when injected with plasma. Yes sir, NT can link anything to the production of plasma. Also useful for further experimenting.
|-
! rowspan=3 | [[File:slimeyellow.png|32px]]<br />Yellow Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts become 10k Charge Powercells.
|-
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood
| Extracts create an EMP. It's a quite big blast as well, useful if that AI is onto your [[Traitor|tricks]].
|-
| style="color: skyblue; background: darkblue; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Water
| Extracts emit light.
|-
! [[File:slimepink.png|32px]]<br />Pink Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create a bottle of docility potion, a potent chemical mix that will nullify a baby slime's powers, causing it to become docile and tame. You too can have your own pet, just like the HoP!
|-
! [[File:slimelightpink.png|32px]]<br />Light Pink Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extract creates a intelligence potion.Your pet is no longer a mindless husk!
|-
! [[File:slimemetal.png|32px]]<br />Metal Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create several sheets of plasteel and metal. Expect the roboticists to want the products.
|-
! rowspan=2 | [[File:slimesilver.png|32px]]<br />Silver Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create a small amount of random food, bork bork bork. Expect anything from a robo-burger to death berries.
|-
| style="color: skyblue; background: darkblue; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Water
| Extracts create a small amount of random drinks, bork bork bork.
|-
! rowspan=2 | [[File:slimegold.png|32px]]<br />Gold Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts spawn a few random hostile mobs. These will break down any window its behind and destroy all of your hard work, killing you and everyone else in their path. '''DO NOT USE THIS AS IT IS AGAINST THE RULES'''
|-
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood
| Extracts spawn one random mob. These mobs are not immediately hostile, but may be provoked by certain actions or if they encounter a construct or mech. NOW you might be able to fill Xenobiology with actual xenomorphs without killing yourself!
|-
! rowspan=3 | [[File:slimesepia.png|32px]]<br />Sepia Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts cause a stop-time spell, how? Slime magic!
|-
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood
| Extract creates Sepia Slime Tiles, good slowing traffic!
|-
| style="color: skyblue; background: darkblue; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Water
| Extracts create a camera and film. Now you can record your discoveries!
|-
! rowspan=1 | [[File:slimebluespace.png|32px]]<br />Bluespace Slime
| style="color: salmon; background: darkred; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Blood
| Extract will produce Bluespace Crystal. I don't get it aren't these like rare?
|-
! [[File:slimecerculean.png|32px]]<br />Cerulean Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create a bottle of extract enhancer. When used on a extract it triples the amount of uses it has. You can start laughing madly now.
|-
! rowspan=1 | [[File:slimepyrite.png|32px]]<br />Pyrite Slime
| style="color: thistle; background: indigo; font-weight: bold;" align="center" | Plasma
| Extracts create some paint. For the love of all that is holy, don't give it to the clown!
|}


=== Non-functional slimes ===
{{anchor|Rainbow Slime}}
All Slimes work now.
'''Rainbow Slime'''
[[File:slimerainbow.png]]
To attain this rare slime you must breed a slime with a 100% mutation chance!


== Tips ==
* Extract will generate a randomly colored slime when injected with plasma. It's a good plan B if the slimes aren't cooperating in terms of colors. You can get any color slime this way, pray to the RNG!  
=== Making an efficient Slime Farm ===
# Grab a toolbox if you have any prosthetic limbs along with some cable coil,and a first aid kit if possible.
# Make your way to Xenobiology if you didn't spawn there.
# Immediately unsecure the processor,recycler,and storage units.Move them into an arrangement that is both closer to the pens,and more comfortable for you.
# Take a monkey cube from the box on the table.Move to a nearby pen,unwrap the cube,drop it,and spray it with the extinguisher.
# Grab your extinguisher.It's located on the table near where the machines you just moved were.
# Move into the pens,culling all greys but one,and moving different colored slimes you'd like to keep to new pens.
# a.Bother RD for grenade casings,and a temp gun.Create frost grenades so you can cull large amount of slimes at once.
# Grab each slime corpse and drag,or in my own preference,toss them to the processor
# BOTHER THE RD FOR UPGRADES TO YOUR PROCESSOR ASAP.
# If the above is entirely impossible,either do the research yourself,or just go on ahead with processing them.Same applies for 6a.
#  Repeat.
# A.I should've mentioned it above,but watch your slimes feed.This adds you to their buddy list,making that slime and it's babies friendly to you.If your unsure whether or not a slime is friendly,try saying "Hello (Insert#here)!"


== So You're a Traitor ==
== So You're a Traitor ==
Sadly, what you can get here that can't be gotten easier elsewhere is an EMP and random hostile animals, including a few very deadly ones. 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.)


On the plus side, you do have a disposal chute that goes directly to space. Pretty handy for disposing of evidence, and also for throwing in anyone who has been stuck with a parapen.
What you can get here that can't be gotten easier elsewhere is an EMP and <strike>random hostile animals which include a few very deadly ones</strike> 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.)


<s>If you have a gold slime, you can try unleashing [[Alien|xenomorphs]] somewhere and hoping that either they end up killing your target or giving you the distraction you need to break into [[Captain's Quarters|important]] [[EVA|places]]. This, however, may backfire and end up turning you into a xeno or preventing your escape. If you're feeling particularly lucky, you could take multiple gold cores (a full backpack or so) OR one or two cores, and a few Cerulean Cores, and inject them all simultaneously, releasing a torrent of horrifying creatures upon an unsuspecting crew.</s> <span style=color:red;font-weight:bold>(Don't do this!)</span>
On the plus side, you do have a disposal chute that goes directly to space. Pretty handy for disposing of evidence, or people.


Don't forget the havoc you can cause with a well built slime grenade.These are useful traitor or not and something you should learn to construct ASAP.
Also remember the havoc with [[grenade]]s 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 [[Slime]]s. This is when you laugh to yourself and realize it backfires when all the slimes attack you.
Also, Bluespace Slime Cores can be used for a quick getaway, since you can get bluespace crystals out of it.


== Guide to slime grenade/explosive construction ==
A full guide to ruining someone's day with slimes:
# Ingredients:A large grenade casing,the trigger of your choice(Wire,Signaler,Mousetrap,etc),A screwdriver,reactant mix such as smoke,foam(Optional in multiple beakers,Plasma or Blood for the reaction of your choice in a beaker.
# 1.Add trigger to casing via taking both in each hand and using the wire/etc on the casing.
# 2.Insert your core,and your reactant/plasma/blood beakers.
# 3.Screwdriver the casing and you now have a live grenade.
# 3a.For a signaler,you need to dial up the proper frequency,then use the same frequency on a remote signaler to trigger your explosive.
You can use any number of cores.Do all the chefs work for him in under a minute with silvers!


* Red - Makes all slimes within sight range hyper aggressive. Also makes glycerol with blood in case you want to make a stupidly large hole in the station with a bluespace beaker grenade.
* Green - Produces 1 unit of a chemical that turns people into different races including slime persons. Use it on someone and convince the AI that they're a danger to humanity. Needs at least 5 units for it to work in a smoke grenade.
* Black - Turns people into actual slimes, no fort save. Again, 5 units in a smoke grenade will make for a very interesting shuttle flight.
* Orange - Ignites a large fire.
* Yellow - Huge EMP.
* Silver - Only way to get real roburgers (with nanites), kudzu seeds, and motherfucking GATFRUIT.
* Gold - We all know what this does.
* Sepia - Stops time in a small radius, allowing you to wreak many kinds of havoc.
* Oil - Explosion. Pretty meh considering there's materials for IEDs everywhere.
* Adamantium - Makes golems that can be converted to the cult/soul shard/revved. They have to follow orders given to them by their creator so feel free to make them suicide bomb with gold slime cores.
* Light pink - Enables you to make sentient beings, including anything a gold slime extract can produce.


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Revision as of 23:34, 10 April 2016

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 arguably 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

Xenobiology

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

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: The Slime 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 a special containment pen that's larger and more secure than the rest. This is ideal for containing and experimenting on other alien lifeforms should the station manage to capture/produce one. Usually though, it's just for storing extra slimes.

Genocide Now: The Slime Console and You

The Slime Console is a semi-new addition to the Xenobiology scene that 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! If for some reason however you want to do Xenobiology the old-fashioned way the way your pappy taught you, then this guide will still help you.

If you're using the console, I'd strongly advise 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.

General Advice on how to Not Get Eaten

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, 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!

Exploiting Lesser Species Optimally: A Guide

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.

It Hungers... For More!

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. Wait for the slime to grow, then load another monkey and wait for the slime to split.

  • As tempting as it may be, do not send in two monkeys at once. The slime might decide the second is a friend and refuse to eat it.
  • Do NOT enter the pen and bash the monkey, the only thing that will happen is slime will get less food.
  • Make sure to stay in sight of the slimes to keep a eye on when they grow and split.

Slaughter Time

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.

Rip My Heart Out

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 then one dead slime in at a time, however this will increase the processing time.

Genocide?

If all the slimes are dead, job's over man, job's over hope you have a grey slime extract, if not, then job's over man, job's over!

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 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.

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.

THEY'RE EATING HER... AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME! OH MY GOOOOOOOOD!

So either by you not feeding the slime enough, the slime being an dick, or reasons, 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 clone damage and empowers the slime, a rare and very difficult to hear 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/or 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 something worse.

Gotta Catch Em' All!

There are several a fuckload of different flavors of slime. You begin with two grey slimes but, you can breed them to catch all the pokèmon! 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. 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.

NOTE: You can increase a slime's chance of mutation by injecting it with plasma and decrease it by injecting it with inaprovaline.

This flowchart shows the results of each slime's mutations when splitting, with options labeled "2x" having twice the chance of occurring.

Slime geneology2.png

Formulas

All injections require one unit of reagent. Dropper is your friend.

Tier 0

Grey Slime Slimegrey.png

  • Extract creates a grey slime when injected with plasma. Useful as a backup grey slime.
  • Extract creates three monkey-cubes when injected with blood. Useful if you want to do your job for more than five minutes.

Tier 1

Orange Slime Slimeorange.png

  • Extract creates a small fire when injected with plasma. Also increases the pressure of the air a fair amount.
  • Extract creates capsaicin (pepper-spray) when injected with blood. Usable as a 'ghetto stun' if you can find a good way to apply it to to your victim test subject.

Purple Slime Slimepurple.png

  • Extract creates a bottle of slime steroid when injected with plasma. Slime steroid is a potent chemical mix that will cause a slime to produce three extracts rather than two when processed. Useful when used on dark purple slimes for that plasma or grey slimes for monkeys.
  • Extract creates slime jelly, a highly toxic substance, when injected with sugar.

Blue Slime Slimeblue.png

  • Extract creates frost oil when injected with plasma.
  • Extract creates slime stabilizer when injected with blood. Significantly reduces a slime's mutation chance, and carries through across generations.

Metal Slime Slimemetal.png

  • Extract creates several sheets of plasteel and metal when injected with plasma. Expect the roboticists to want the products.

Tier 2

Yellow Slime Slimeyellow.png

  • Extracts become 10k Charge Powercells when injected with plasma.
  • Extract creates an EMP when injected with blood. It's a quite big blast as well, useful if that AI is onto your tricks.
  • Extracts emit light when injected with water.

Dark Purple Slime Slimedarkpurple.png

  • Extract creates several sheets of Solid Plasma when injected with plasma. Yessir, NT can link anything to the production of plasma. Also useful for further experimenting.

Dark Blue Slime Slimedarkblue.png

  • Extract creates a burst of cold when injected with plasma. Useful for countering those red slimes. Will kill most slimes dead, if you have 'population issues'.

Silver Slime Slimesilver.png

  • Extract creates a small amount of random food when injected with plasma, bork bork bork. Expect anything from a roburger to death berries.
  • Extract creates a small amount of random drinks when injected with water, bork bork bork.

Tier 2.5

Bluespace Slime Slimebluespace.png

  • Extract will, if injected with plasma, spawn a Bluespace Crystal. They will teleport you when crushed in your hand and teleport anyone you throw it at. It also has some good research levels.
  • Extract will, if injected with blood, create Bluespace Floor Tiles, which speed up movement drastically.

Sepia Slime Slimesepia.png

  • Extract stops time when injected with plasma. How? SpessSlime Magic!
  • Extract creates some Film and a Camera when injected with blood. Fuck this is so useless.

Cerulean Slime Slimecerculean.png

  • Extract creates a bottle of extract enhancer when injected with plasma. When used on a extract it triples the amount of uses it has. You can start laughing madly now. This does not work on all extracts, notably Adamantine, so no creating a infinite army of hard to destroy golems.
  • Currently doesn't work in the current version of the code. Probably will get a new effect in the future.

Pyrite Slime Slimepyrite.png

  • Extract creates a can of paint when injected with plasma. For the love of all that is holy, don't give it to the clown!

Tier 3

Red Slime Slimered.png

  • Extract creates a bottle of slime mutation potion when injected with plasma. Makes slimes more likely to mutate, the opposite of the slime stabilizer.
  • Extract makes nearby slimes rabid when injected with blood. Has some fun uses.

Green Slime Slimegreen.png

  • Extract creates one unit of mutation toxin when injected with plasma. Injecting yourself with it will turn you into a slime-(wo)man. This results in the slimes never attacking you, but keep in mind though that you are no longer technically 'human' as far as the AI and Cyborgs are concerned. The toxin is found in the used extract. Your blood also is no longer 'valid' for the purpose of blood based reactions with extracts. In addition, injecting the extract with radium creates one unit of unstable mutation toxin instead, which causes a random humanoid mutation, such as a zombie or an abductor.

Pink Slime Slimepink.png

  • Extract creates a bottle of docility potion when injected with plasma, a potent chemical mix that will nullify a slime's powers, causing it to become docile and tame. You too can have your own pet, just like the HoP!

Gold Slime Slimegold.png

  • Extract spawns a few random hostile mobs when injected with plasma. Aliens are common from this reaction, so you might be able to fill xenobiology with actual xenomorphs!
  • Extract spawns one random mob when injected with blood. These mobs are not immediately hostile, but may be provoked by certain actions, proximity to other creatures (such as your slimes) or if they encounter a construct or mech. NOW you might be able to fill xenobiology with actual xenomorphs without killing yourself!
  • Extract spawns one random friendly critter when injected with water. Now you can fill xenobiology with mobs even if you're a giant pussy!

Tier 4

Oil Slime Slimeoil.png

  • Extract creates a explosion after a moment when injected with plasma.

Black Slime Slimeblack.png

  • Extract creates one unit of advanced mutation toxin when injected with plasma. Turns you, or others, into a sentient baby slime.

Light Pink Slime Slimelightpink.png

  • Extract creates a bottle of sentience potion when injected with plasma, a potent chemical mix that will bring human level intelligence to any animal, slime, ape, monster or generally active thing you feed it to. Make Ian sentient! Create an army of gold slime minions! The possibilities are limited only by your own deviousness and the number of ghosts in the round.

Adamantine Slime Slimeadamantine.png

  • Extract creates a Adamantine Golem when injected with Plasma. It will follow its creator's orders much like a construct.

Special Slimes

Rainbow Slime Slimerainbow.png To attain this rare slime you must breed a slime with a 100% mutation chance!

  • Extract will generate a randomly colored slime when injected with plasma. It's a good plan B if the slimes aren't cooperating in terms of colors. You can get any color slime this way, pray to the RNG!

So You're a Traitor

What you can get here that can't be gotten easier elsewhere is an EMP and random hostile animals which include a few very deadly ones 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.)

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:

  • Red - Makes all slimes within sight range hyper aggressive. Also makes glycerol with blood in case you want to make a stupidly large hole in the station with a bluespace beaker grenade.
  • Green - Produces 1 unit of a chemical that turns people into different races including slime persons. Use it on someone and convince the AI that they're a danger to humanity. Needs at least 5 units for it to work in a smoke grenade.
  • Black - Turns people into actual slimes, no fort save. Again, 5 units in a smoke grenade will make for a very interesting shuttle flight.
  • Orange - Ignites a large fire.
  • Yellow - Huge EMP.
  • Silver - Only way to get real roburgers (with nanites), kudzu seeds, and motherfucking GATFRUIT.
  • Gold - We all know what this does.
  • Sepia - Stops time in a small radius, allowing you to wreak many kinds of havoc.
  • Oil - Explosion. Pretty meh considering there's materials for IEDs everywhere.
  • Adamantium - Makes golems that can be converted to the cult/soul shard/revved. They have to follow orders given to them by their creator so feel free to make them suicide bomb with gold slime cores.
  • Light pink - Enables you to make sentient beings, including anything a gold slime extract can produce.
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