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There are plenty of structures you can throw onto your farm inStardew Valley, and out of all of them, the Slime Hutch is one of the strangest. I rarely see any casual player build one.
That said, if you’re curious, you may delve into the Slime Hutch meta and earn a pretty decent amount of money and various other monster drops, with some bonus combat EXP on the side.
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When maxed out, these buildings can be almost as lucrative as barns or coops are. While they’re a bit more of a hassle to wrangle and set up, the extra items you get from them make it worth doing.
I’ll be going over how to get a Slime Hutch, setting it up optimally, and finding out what your average daily income and bonus items will be for each type of slime, respectively.
How to Get a Slime Hutch
The Slime Hutch is one of the buildings available to buy from Robin without any unlock requirements. It takes 2 days to construct, takes up a 7x4 area on your farm, and costs 10,000g, 500Stone, 10Refined Quartz, and anIridium Bar.
You probably already have a good money-making method for the gold, and getting 500 Stone is light work if you’re planning on getting to the bottom of the mines and doing Skull Cavern.
While you’re on those mining trips, you may grab ten Quartz, then throw those into furnaces for the Refined Quartz. Or, if you’re like me, you can recycle a bunch of fishing junk to get that instead.
There areplenty of ways to get Iridium, but the easiest is getting the Vault in the Community Center done, then riding the bus to get to Skull Cavern where you’ll get an absolute boatload of the stuff.
How to Get Slime Eggs
You can primarily obtainSlime Eggs in one of two ways: through aSlime Egg-Press, or from random drops by killing slimes after you’ve built at least one Slime Hutch. I’ll go over the Slime Egg-Press first.
Even if you haven’t built a Slime Hutch yet, you can make the Slime Egg-Press by reaching Combat Level 6. It’s crafted with 25Coal, 1Fire Quartz, and 1Battery Pack, none of which are complicated to get.
The issue with the Press is that you can’t guarantee what you’re getting from it. If you’re trying to go for a specific color of slime, you have to play the gamble and hope you get what you want. In addition, you will never see Tiger Slime Eggs from this thing.
The more normal way to get them is by killing slimes, which have a percentage chance to drop their respective Slime egg, meaning you can farm for a specific color far more easily by going to where that color spawns.
There are a few other edge-case methods of getting eggs, namely the Tiger Slime Eggbeing obtainable from Tiger Fish Ponds. But if you’re farming a bunch of them, I say kill some slimes.
Setting Up Hutches
The first thing you’ll want to do with a brand-new Slime Hutch is grab some sprinklers and fences to automatically give the slimes water every day and to make sure you don’t get mobbed by them.
I usually make the left corner of the hutch gated off from the Slimes, so they have access to the incubator and plenty of room to spread out. This should also act as a gentle reminder to take off theThorns Ringif you have it.
you’re able to also add flooring to the Slime Hutch to force their Slime Balls to spawn inside the fence, making them damaging you a complete non-issue once you have all 20 slimes inside.
Every time you’re too impatient for them to breed and want to manually add a slime, throw it in the incubator in the top left, then quickly run out so you don’t take too much damage. You can also grab aSlime Charmer Ringif you want this process to be even easier.
How to Profit
There are two ways to make money off your Slime Hutch. you may wait for slimes to naturally breed, reproduce enough to fill the hutch, and give you five Slime Balls a day, which makes for half-decent passive income.
If you’re here for the big bucks, though, then you should be culling your slime population frequently. They’ll constantly breed and reproduce, meaning killing off about 8 Slimes whenever they reach the maximum of 20 will give you a nice bit of money.
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That said, if you aren’t interested in the frequent management of your somewhat chaotic hutches, then the slime color doesn’t matter, and you can throw a ton of whatever slime you want into a hutch for your Slime Ball money.
The rest of this guide will be discussing the amount of money and bonus items you’ll get by constantly culling your Slime population, assuming you have 20 of the same slime in one hutch.
Green Slime
Spawn Location
Average Daily Income
Bonus Items
The Green Slime is the milquetoast option that you’d probably expect. The bonus items are pretty bad, with the Amethyst and Slime Egg being the only things of note. The income isn’t great either.
They’re perfectly fine if you just want the slime balls and passive income, as they’re far and away the easiest slimes to get. But if you’re actively culling them, it’s not great money for the effort.
My methodology was culling slimes when they were above 12, putting the Slime I got into incubators, and constantly letting them breed and giving them new eggs.
Even with that, plus the Burglar’s Ring and a sword enchanted with Slime Gatherer, I was getting less than a hundred slime every day, meaning this process took far longer than you’d expect.
Blue Slime
I expected the Blue Slimes to only be a very slight improvement over the greens, but I was thoroughly surprised. The only difference in methodology was the fact that I no longer put the slime into presses, since those mostly give green eggs.
This means I couldn’t justify culling them as often, yet that built up extra slime in combination with items like Jade and Winter Root selling for a decent amount meant the Blue Slime earned a respectable 490g on average every day.
This gets even better when you consider that Jade is an incredibly good mineral in Stardew. you’re able to trade it for Staircases in the Desert, making for excellent tools to bring along on any Skull Cavern runs.
All of these factors, combined with the fact that Blue Slimes are the second most common Slimes in the game, make this a genuinely pretty good option, either for passive income or for active culling.
While the Red Slime is a significant improvement on the Blue Slime, I think of them as around the same level. Reds are far harder to farm, as the area of the mines they reside in absolutely sucks to be in.
The Coal and Diamond are both incredibly useful and great additions to have, and with the Burglar’s Ring and frequent culling, you’ll be seeing them frequently enough to make it feel worthwhile.
That said, the Jade and Winter Root at higher rates made the Blue Slime pretty competitive, profitability-wise, so I’d say only go for the Red Slime instead if you’re willing to put up with it.
Especially of note, if you cull 8 Red Slimes every day with a Burglar’s Ring on, you have a pretty damn good chance of getting at least one diamond per week, which is just a little worse than a Crystalarium.
Purple Slime
The Purple Slime is less of an upgrade to the Red Slime than you may think. Despite the addition of a solid chance at some Iridium on top of the Diamond, it’s only a little better for daily income.
Granted, having a near-equal chance at getting both a Diamond and an Iridium Bar for free every week is a pretty great prospect, but otherwise, you’re going to see similar results.
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However, I rate the Purple Slime much higher simply because getting Purple Slime Eggs is far less annoying. They’re less common from the Press, sure, but the Skull Caverns are alreadyworth rushing the Community Centerfor.
You’ll be in the Skull Caverns frequently from mining trips, so you might as well slaughter the numerous Purple Slimes that are there, making this a great option for some extra income from that.
Tiger Slime
The Tiger Slimes are more of a sidegrade to the Purple Slimes, rather than a straight upgrade. I got a slightly lower average income with these guys, but if I had a larger sample size, I think they’d just about equal out.
Their eggs are double the sale price of Purple Slime Eggs, but the lack of Iridium and the presence of things like seeds and Taro Tubers make them far less generally useful.
If you’re really lucky, you’ll pull the 1% chance of getting 5000g on the spot. But I think with the Diamond being present in both, it makes this a less consistent source of income overall.
If you want to gamble and hope you get one of the super-valuable drops frequently, then go for it. They also offer the most combat EXP of the bunch, if that’s what you’re after.
Mixed Color Slime
I did not do calculations for every mixed color slime you can make, because you can make 16,581,375 different ones, but I figured I should still add a footnote here for anyone who wishes to venture into that world.
The drop rates vary based on the slime’s hex code, but of special note are White Slimes, which will give you a 100% chance at a diamond if all their hex values are even, or if all of them are 255.
you may also get Hardwood from Brown Slimes, Gold from Yellow Slimes, and an increased chance of Iridium if you can make Purple Slimes that are extra vibrant.
If you’re going for active culling, I don’t recommend trying to mix slime colors for anything in particular, as it’s an excruciatingly slow, random, and frustrating process, especially if you want a diamond farm.
