Living Slime

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The information from this article is up-to-date as of 15 February, 2022.

Living Slime

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

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", 0.6 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 not used as an ingredient for crafting.

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].