Living Slime

The subject of this article is from the Omega update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 26 March, 2024.

Living Slime

Category	Special
Type	Junk
Rarity	Uncommon
Blueprint Value	20.0
Used for	Upgrading, Refining
Symbol	Jn
Updated	Omega

Living Slime is a resource.

Summary[ | ]

Living Slime (Jn) is a resource and one of the junk special elements.

Game description[ | ]

A heavy, oozing slime. It is moving gently, as if it has a heartbeat of its own.

Nutrient source: unknown.

Source[ | ]

Living Slime can be acquired in several ways:

purchased and sold at Galactic Trade Terminals and NPCs for a profit.
found in alien-infested Derelict Freighters.
sometimes dropped when killing fauna on Exotic planets.
Damaged Machinery

Living Slime can be refined using a Refiner with the following ingredients:

Viscous Fluids x1 → Living Slime x1 ("Recycle Waste Materials", 0.6 sec./unit output)
Hypnotic Eye x1 → Living Slime x50 ("Biological Purge", 0.24 sec./unit output)
Mordite x5 + Atlantideum x5 → Living Slime x1 ("Reanimation", 14.4 sec./unit output)

Use[ | ]

Through multiple steps of refining, Residual Goop can be converted to Viscous Fluids, to Living Slime, to Runaway Mould and then to Nanite Cluster.

Crafting[]

Living Slime is used as an ingredient for crafting the following products:

Spewing Vents -- Sac Venom x5 + Living Slime x40 → Spewing Vents

Refining[]

Living Slime is used as an ingredient for refining the following products using a Refiner:

Runaway Mould -- Living Slime x1 → Runaway Mould x1 ("Recycle Waste Materials", 0.6 sec./unit output)

Cooking[]

Living Slime is not used as an ingredient for cooking using a Nutrient Processor.

Additional information[ | ]

Junk type resources have the same symbol (Jn) rather than their own.

Trivia[ | ]

With its purple colour and description as "living", Living Slime bears a strong resemblance to S.L.I.M.E, (Surface-Living Intelligent Multiplying Endolith), from the book Alienology.^[1].