Before entering the Echo Mountains, since there is a hunger problem, first look for the next merchant to buy some cooked pork chops or cooked steak, and save it for the road.
Two new slimes will appear in the Echo Mountains, they are the Bat Slime and the Explosive Slime, and we will need both.
Bat Slime
Bat Slime
Refresh Area: Echo Mountains, Broken Badlands Cluster System
Food: Meat
Output Crystals: Bat Crystals
Type: Small - Harmless, Evolvable
Explosion Slime
Explosion Slime
Refresh Area. Echo Mountains, Ruined Badlands, Creepy Colony System
Food: Meat, Evolvable
Output Crystals: Explosive Crystals
Type: Small - Harmless, Evolvable
To mention the concept of Harmless, this Slime is aggressive and may kill the player, so be careful.
Explosive Slimes can be found everywhere on the flatlands, while Bat Slimes need to be found inside caves.
Bat Slimes inside the cave
Bat Slimes inside the cave
After collecting both types of Slimes, don't rush home, first sweep the map for wandering animals, as both types of Slimes are carnivorous, so we'll need a relatively large number of adult animals to feed on. After accumulating enough meat, use the Home Stone to go home, and when you get home, don't rush to release the Slimes yet, go to the merchant first and buy some Beet Seeds.
Come to the farmland and corrals that have been sitting idle, plant the crops and raise the animals first, the crops are recommended to plant beet because the second Slime needs to eat beets, and the animals are free to do as they please. The crops mature quickly and are planted in the same way as normal MC, while the animals breed pups once in a while, and the harvesting is all Slime Gun Inhalation.
After planting the vegetables and placing the animals, you can then go to the terrain planning room (the 2nd building next to the initial farm) to unlock the rocky mountain range, unlocking it requires some Slime crystals from the current ecosystem, which will pop out after feeding the first big Slime, and if that's not enough, we suggest you buy them from a merchant directly.
Unlocking the Gone Stone Mountains
Unlocking the Gone Stone Mountains
After unlocking it, we go straight to the new farming area, and find the Slime enclosure in the cave, where the Bat Slimes are to be kept, or they will die due to the light they receive.
Slime enclosure in the cave
Slime enclosure in the cave
And Explosive Slimes have no environmental requirements, we use the scroll to clear out the slimes that were kept in one of the original enclosures (due to the low yield), and stuff the Explosive Slimes in there, and it's important to note that the Explosive Slimes need to be in at least a level 2 enclosure, and with both of these new Slimes we'll mainly feed the Explosive Slimes!
If you don't have enough livestock on hand, you can go directly to the merchants to buy them. Explosive Slimes like to eat pigs, so we recommend buying all pigs, even if the benefits of Explosive Crystals don't cover the expense of pigs, it's still a necessary expense.
If the player's bag is too full, there are large crates all over the map to store items.
Big crates for storing items
Big crates for storing items
There are ready-made beds next to the crates, and players are advised to come here every night to sleep through the day; there are no torches or other lighting in this mode, and visibility at night is dim.
At this point, the beet we just planted is almost ripe, so go back to the farmland, harvest the beet, and go straight to feed the second big Slime that needs to eat 100 beet to unlock the third area, the Ragged Wicked Land.