Materials and Recipes

Use gelatins, essences, and fragments to craft equipment, prepare breeding, and assist growth. Recipes appear in the in-game recipe book. Items use original dimensional SolarPunk models.

Shapeless recipes

Up to four ingredients fit in the player crafting grid; five or more require a crafting table. Repeated ingredients occupy separate slots.

Original gel, capsule, analyzer, station, and incubator recipes remain available, so basic research and breeding do not require bosses. Essence recipes return a glass bottle for each essence consumed. Basic Gelatin is an ingredient, not universal slime food. Crystal Fragments are refined items, not Crystal projectiles or automatic substitutes for amethyst.

Harvest essences

Use a glass bottle on a cared-for living adult. The elemental family supplies Elemental Essence: Fire, Ice, Water, Electric, Wind, and Venom. Ancestral supplies Ancestral Essence. Datapack species using the elemental family follow the same rule.

The caretaker needs interaction permission, reach, and line of sight. The adult needs trust ≥60, hunger ≤40, comfort and energy ≥60, and health ≥75%, without combat, breeding readiness, recent capture reaction, mounts, passengers, or leash.

An accepted harvest yields one essence, costs 20 energy and +10 hunger, and starts 6,000 loaded ticks of recovery. It does not damage the slime, change genes, or add trust. A rejected harvest charges nothing. Multiple bottles send output to inventory or drop it nearby if full; Creative follows vanilla container behavior.

Recovery persists through saves and capsules and pauses while captured or unloaded. The analyzer shows recovery in a tooltip. Only the successful harvester receives that Slimepedia discovery.

Stabilize the next birth

Apply a Mutation Stabilizer to an eligible parent before Breeding Gel. Normal caretaker, permission, reach, sight, and breeding requirements apply. It consumes one item outside Creative; duplicate applications are rejected without charge.

If either parent is protected, the pair's next accepted birth has zero chance of new numeric mutations. Inherited alleles are still selected normally. The child receives known birth history without new changes and does not inherit protection. If both parents are treated, both protections are consumed.

Protection survives incompatible pairs, blocked space, canceled births, readiness expiration, saves, capsules, and metamorphoses. Only accepted offspring insertion consumes it. It does not automatically repeat.

Incubator supplements

Each cycle also needs one compatible food and 200 loaded ticks of processing.

All add only 200 chronological age ticks and preserve genes, birth evidence, parents, species, and adult size. Catalyst does not change mutation chance. See incubation rules.

Recipe discoveries

Slimeballs unlock Basic Gelatin; gelatin unlocks batch gel and the initial catalyst. Amethyst shards unlock Crystal Fragments. Elemental Essence unlocks the core and essence catalyst. Cores unlock elemental stabilizers and alternate capsule/station recipes. Ancestral Essence unlocks the higher-yield stabilizer.

Recipe unlocks and personal Slimepedia research are independent. Old research journals do not gain retroactive harvesting discoveries.

Boss materials

Royal Gel, Igneous Fragment, Prismatic Shard, and Primordial Essence come from boss victories. A Primordial Seal requires Royal Gel, Igneous Fragment, Prismatic Shard, Nether Star, and Ancient Tablet. It can summon the Primordial boss or transform Void into Ancestral; each accepted use consumes one seal. See ascension.