Hungry Slimes

Hungry Slimes will eat anything, until there is nothing left!

Now in v4.11.1! (see full patch notes)

If Slimes are not visible for you, you can either chose to max out the particle quality in the game options, or go in the mod options and turn off "High quality Slime Particles" to see if that helps at lower quality levels, or turn off "Render Slime Particles" be able to see them without using the particles system.

Ever dreamed of leading your own army of Slimes? Wait no more, get yours today! Well, they won't really obey you anyway... But they will certainly help your clean all those pesky debris, or vehicles, or buildings, or cities... Don't like slimy creatures? You can also think of this mod as nanobots, nanites, nanomachines or any sort of technologically advanced way of progressively destroying matter ;)

Demo video by TheAlmightyMaestro.

TOOLS

• Hungry Slimes: You can throw hungry Slimes.

KEYBOARD CONTROLS

• [LeftClick]: Throw Slimes in front of you.
• [L]: Kill half of your Slimes.
• [K]: Kill all of your Slimes.
• [M]: Tap to reduce your max Slimes on map.
• [M]: Hold to reset your max Slimes on map.
• [O]: Open options menu.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Slimes will stick to any surface.
• Slimes will attempt to eat any destructible material near them.
• After eating enough food, a slime will duplicate itself.
• A slime that tried to eat but found no food will die.
• If the surface where a Slime is attached breaks, they will jump to the closest surface.
• The Slimes as a group can be compared to a fire burning anything or some sticky acid liquid.
• In multiplayer each player controls its own population of slimes.

KNOWN BUGS

• Slimes may fail to eat correctly when near unbreakable material (This is less noticeable when Food for Duplication is set to 1)
• Slimes will lag your game a lot if they multiply too much (see Performance tab).
• Slimes do lag a lot when eating large free-floating objects.
• I did open a discussion to request some features for the modding API that could help optimize the code of this mod a lot :)

DEV NOTES

Well, here is my first Teardowm mod :) But first things first, lets thanks Cheejins for the amazing Gas Can mod he made, and that was heavily reused in this mod! As I was quite late to the modding party in Teardown, I had a hard time figuring out something that would be interesting to play with and not yet done by the community :p But after watching too much animes, I eventually thought about implementing some sort of spreading-eating-monstruosity in the form of little slimes. The way I envisionned was by sticking my own "slime voxels" to existing structures dynamically at runtime... Sadly I learnt quite fast that spawning voxels was not yet possible in the modding API :/ Hopefully after browsing the workshop for potential alternative solutions, I found the Gas Can mod which was spawning "entities" into the world that are not voxels, but abstract structures with a position and a particle effect attached to them. That was it: slimes would be particles instead of voxels! As I reused most of Cheejins' code, I cold focus more on the core feature of this mod: the slimes "eating" matter, and duplicating themselves. Eating was quite easy, but balancing the spawn rate of new slimes in a way that will not instantly burn your PC when you spawn one of them took some time XD I think I ended up with an okay set of default parameters, and left a lot of options to tweak the experience for your own needs ;)