Guide to Xenobiology
REASON: In need of a general rewrite, it is a funny article but it isn't well-aligned with our standards for articles. Jokes are welcome but in moderation. There is too much strikethrough and joke headers in this and should seek to be more informative rather than humerous. Additionally, grammar issues and personal pronouns(this should be written in a third person POV) are rampant.
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
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. Its just a normal pen now, for secure things use experimentor or scichem chambers.
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.
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.
Feeding Slimes
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. 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.
- 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.
- Make sure to stay in sight of the slimes to keep an 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.
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
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.
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.
Aggresive Slimes
If you are not feeding the slime enough or attack the 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.
Gotta Catch Em' All!
There are different types 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.
This flowchart shows the results of each slime's mutations when splitting, with options labeled "2x" having twice the chance of occurring.
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 | Water |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Grey Slime
|
0 | Monkey Cubes | Grey Slime | Epinephrine |
 Orange Slime
|
1 | Capsaicin | Small fire | |
 Purple Slime
|
1 | Slime Steroid | ||
 Blue Slime
|
1 | Slime Stabilizer | Frost Oil | |
 Metal Slime
|
1 | Metal and Plasteel | Glass | |
 Yellow Slime
|
2 | EMP | Yellow Slime Core | Light |
 Dark Purple Slime
|
2 | Solid Plasma | ||
 Dark Blue Slime
|
2 | Burst of cold | Fireproof Potion | |
 Silver Slime
|
2 | Random food | Random drink | |
 Bluespace Slime
|
2.5 | Bluespace Floor | Bluespace Crystal | |
 Sepia Slime
|
2.5 | Film, Camera, Sepia Floor | Stops time | |
 Cerulean Slime
|
2.5 | Slime Blueprints | Extract Enhancer | |
 Pyrite Slime
|
2.5 | Can of Paint | ||
 Green Slime
|
3 | Mutation Toxin | ||
 Red Slime
|
3 | Makes slimes rabid | Slime Mutation Potion | Slime Speed Potion |
 Pink Slime
|
3 | Docility Potion | ||
 Gold Slime
|
3 | Spawns random mob | Spawns hostile mob | Spawns friendly critter |
 Oil Slime
|
4 | Explosion | ||
 Black Slime
|
4 | Advanced Mutation Toxin | ||
 Light Pink Slime
|
4 | Sentience Potion | ||
 Adamantine Slime
|
4 | Adamantine Bar | ||
 Rainbow Slime
|
5 | Consciousness Transfer Potion | Spawns random slime |
Notes
Purple Slimes, if injected with sugar, will produce slime jelly. It is used in cooking.
Rainbow Slimes can be achieved by breeding and splitting a slime with 100% mutation chance.
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.
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.
Green - Turns people into a shadow person. Keep in mind this is not the same as a shadowling.- 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)
Orange - Ignites a large fire.
Yellow - Huge EMP.
Silver - Only way to get 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.
Adamantine - 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.