Slimes

“	It is not known what is the nature or origin of these strange creeping formations. It was hypothesized that this mucus is actually a colony of microorganisms that mutated under the effects of taint. It is dangerous, as it contains corrosive acid and other unpleasant chemicals, but fortunately (it) does not attack anypony, so it´s enough just (to) avoid stepping on it.	”
–PipBuck's Awful slime description

Attack patterns

Awful Slime in the Factory.

Slimes will not try to attack you directly, so avoiding them is usually very easy. However depending on where they appear and how many there are, they may become much harder to avoid.

They have 3 behaviour patterns:

• Slide back and forth on the ground. Touching one directly deals damage. If they reach a wall or an edge, they will turn around and slide back to where they came from.
• Hang from the ceiling and drip corrosive acid or pink slime straight downwards. Will fall and start sliding back and forth if the wall they're hanging from is destroyed, or if they've been ripped off with telekinesis. Cryoslimes can not hang from the ceiling.
• Act as a "slime mine", a flat, immobile slime that explodes into an acid bomb or Pink Cloud, when stepped upon. Appears in the locations that regular mines would appear. Destroying slime mines rewards experience as if it were an enemy. Cryoslimes can not become slime mines.

Strategy

Slimes have many resistances to different types of damage, especially bullet, blade and blunt damage. Weapons with plasma, fire or freezing damage work well against slimes, with laser and explosion damage working to a lesser extent.

Avoid using all firearms and non-magic melee weapons, since the damage is resisted extremely well. Incendiary cocktails or grenades can be used to clear out many slimes grouped together at once, due to their slow speed and lack of reaction to the flames.

Slimes will deal damage to you if you hit them directly with your hooves, making kicking them to save ammo a poor option.

Due to their low experience reward, decent health and lack of threat, it is usually a better idea to either telekinetically move them out of the way or just avoid them entirely, even if you have a weapon that does decent damage against them.

One of the best ways to deal with slimes is the Balefire Phoenix or Robo-owl companion. It can kill them for free without wasting weapon durability or ammo. Slimes however are not automatically targeted, and must be manually targeted with the [U] key.

Types

Enemy	Stats		Resistances
Awful slime	Health	60	bullet 95% blade 75% blunt 75% explosion 30% laser 30% lightning 50% poison 100% acid 100%
	Melee damage	acid (6)
	Inflicts debuffs	Chemical burn
	Xp reward	100

Enemy	Stats		Resistances
Cryoslime	Health	120	bullet 95% blade 75% blunt 75% explosion 30% laser 30% freezing 100% lightning 50% poison 100%
	Melee damage	freezing (12)
	Inflicts debuffs	Frozen
	Xp reward	300

Enemy	Stats		Resistances
Pink slime	Health	200	bullet 95% blade 75% blunt 75% explosion 30% laser 30% lightning 50% poison 100%
	Melee damage	pink cloud (20)
	Xp reward	500
Notes	Found in Canterlot ruins and Ministry of Image

Gallery

3 Pink slime mines blocking the stairs in Canterlot ruins.

Dripping slimes in a stairway