Slimes

A green slime near a blue slime in a forest.

			SlimeWhite Present Slime  Classic  Expert  Master Statistics Type Slime Environment Surface Christmas AI Type Slime AI Damage 7/14›62›74/21›93›111 Max Life 25/50›274›330/75›411›495 Defense 2/2›10›12 KB Resist 0%/10%/20% Banner Blue Slime Banner Immune to Drops Coins 25Pre-Hardmode: 62Hardmode: 250Post-Plantera: 3 Sounds Hurt Killed Internal NPC ID: 333 SlimeYellow Present Slime  Classic  Expert  Master Statistics Type Slime Environment Surface Christmas AI Type Slime AI Damage 6/12›64›74/18›96›111 Max Life 23/46›302›354/69›453›531 Defense 2/2›12›14 KB Resist 0%/10%/20% Banner Blue Slime Banner Immune to Drops Coins 25Pre-Hardmode: 62Hardmode: 3Post-Plantera: 350 Sounds Hurt Killed Internal NPC ID: 334 SlimeGreen Present Slime  Classic  Expert  Master Statistics Type Slime Environment Surface Christmas AI Type Slime AI Damage 8/16›56›72/24›84›108 Max Life 29/58›254›318/87›381›477 Defense 3/3›12›15 KB Resist 0%/10%/20% Banner Blue Slime Banner Immune to Drops Coins 25Pre-Hardmode: 62Hardmode: 2Post-Plantera: 250 Sounds Hurt Killed Internal NPC ID: 335 SlimeRed Present Slime  Classic  Expert  Master Statistics Type Slime Environment Surface Christmas AI Type Slime AI Damage 5/10›62›80/15›93›120 Max Life 22/44›338›434/66›507›651 Defense 1/1›7›9 KB Resist 0%/10%/20% Banner Blue Slime Banner Immune to Drops Coins 25Pre-Hardmode: 62Hardmode: 350Post-Plantera: 450 Sounds Hurt Killed Internal NPC ID: 336
Present Slimes appearing during Christmas
Slime in Bunny costume for Halloween SlimeBunny Slime  Classic  Expert  Master Statistics Type Slime Environment Forest Halloween AI Type Slime AI Damage 7/14›62›74/21›93›111 Max Life 25/50›274›330/75›411›495 Defense 2/2›10›12 KB Resist 0%/10%/20% Banner Blue Slime Banner Immune to Drops Coins 25Pre-Hardmode: 62Hardmode: 250Post-Plantera: 3 Sounds Hurt Killed Internal NPC ID: 302

“

You look half digested. Have you been chasing slimes again?

— The Nurse

Slimes are the most common enemy type. They are almost always the first enemy the player encounters in a new world. They come in multiple sizes and colors, each with different health, defense, and damage. With the exception of the Gastropod, all slimes follow the basic Slime AI: They hop in the direction of the player and rest a short amount of time afterwards. When a slime is preparing to hop, it bobs up and down rapidly. Slimes can float in water.

Slimes spawned on or near the surface are usually neutral and do not chase the player during the day, unless provoked. All slimes become hostile at night and slimes spawned underground are always hostile. Green, Blue, Red, Purple and Yellow Slimes usually spawn on or near the surface, while Mother Slime, Baby Slime, and Black Slime can only be found underground. Pinky may appear anywhere, yet rarely.

Most types drop 1-2 Gel, with exceptions noted in the table below.

Quick Answers

What is the behavior of slimes in Terraria?

In Terraria, slimes exhibit a similar set of behavior. They chase the player by jumping towards them and can float on water. They are also capable of jumping up to higher platforms, but they cannot drop down from them. Most of the slimes take damage from lava. However, they will be passive towards any player with the Royal Gel accessory equipped. Other slimes, like the Lava Slime, are exclusive to specific environments like The Underworld.

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What are some special slimes that appear during the Halloween and Christmas events in Terraria?

In Terraria, special slimes appear during the Halloween and Christmas events to add a festive touch to the game. During Halloween, you might encounter a Slime in a Bunny costume, adding a fun and spooky twist to the usual enemies. When Christmas rolls around, the game features Present Slimes, which are perfectly gift-wrapped bundles of slime. These include the White Present Slime and the Green Present Slime, both of which are wonderfully deadly presents for any festive occasion. So, whether it's Halloween or Christmas, Terraria ensures that the slimes are dressed for the occasion!

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What are slime drops in Terraria and what can they be used for?

In Terraria, slimes drop a variety of items that can be used for different purposes. Most of the Slimes drop Gel and Slime Staff, but there are some exceptions. For instance, The King Slime can drop a range of items including the Slime Hook, Slime Gun, and Royal Gel. The Red Slime and other slimes can also drop bonus items if you're lucky. The Dungeon Slime is unique in that it always drops a Golden Key when defeated, which can be used to unlock certain chests in the Dungeon. Remember, slimes will be passive towards any player with the Royal Gel accessory equipped, so it's a handy item to have!

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Variants

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Type	Health	Damage	Defense	Coins	Banner	Bonus Drops	Additional info
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -3					n/a	✔️	✔️
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 1					n/a	✔️	✔️
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -8					n/a	✔️	✔️	Spawns in the underground layer.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -7					n/a	✔️	✔️
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -9					n/a	✔️	✔️	Spawns in the underground layer.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -6					n/a	✔️	✔️	Spawns in the cavern layer. May inflict the Darkness debuff.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 147					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in Snow biomes.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 537					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in Desert biomes.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -10					n/a	✔️	✔️	Spawns in Jungle biomes.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 184					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Underground Snow. Fires Ice Spike projectiles.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 204					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Underground Jungle. Fires Jungle Spike projectiles.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 16					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Cavern layer and spawns up to three Baby Slimes upon death.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -5					n/a	✔️	✔️	Spawns in groups of three, whenever Mother Slime is defeated.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 59					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Underworld. Can jump higher than most other slimes. Immune to lava and leaves a small amount of lava upon death in Expert mode. Does not drop Gel. Emits an orange glow.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 71					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Dungeon. Drops its Golden Key, which is not to be confused with bonus drops. Does not drop Gel.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -4					n/a	✔️	✔️	Smallest slime, spawns very rarely. Drops 25-50 Pink Gel. Defeating grants the Pretty in Pink achievement.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 50						❌	❌	Slime boss; rarely spawns in the outer thirds of the world but can also be manually summoned. Does not follow the Slime AI. Drops one piece of Ninja armor. Does not drop Gel. Defeating it grants the Slippery Shinobi achievement.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 535	(Expert Mode only)								n/a	❌	❌	Summoned by King Slime in Expert mode. Not needed for the Gelatin World Tour achievement.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 225					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns during rain. Drops 2-5 Gel. Larger than most slimes.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 302					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in Forest biomes during Halloween. Not needed for the Gelatin World Tour achievement.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 333					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in Forest biomes during Christmas. Can drop a Giant Bow. Not needed for the Gelatin World Tour achievement.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 334					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in Forest biomes during Christmas. Can drop a Giant Bow. Not needed for the Gelatin World Tour achievement.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 335					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in Forest biomes during Christmas. Can drop a Giant Bow. Not needed for the Gelatin World Tour achievement.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 336					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in Forest biomes during Christmas. Can drop a Giant Bow. Not needed for the Gelatin World Tour achievement.

Hardmode-only

Type	Health	Damage	Defense	Coins	Banner	Bonus Drops	Additional info
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 141					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Underground and Cavern layers. Has a chance to inflict the Poisoned debuff.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 81					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Corruption and spawns 2-3 Slimelings upon death. Drops 2-4 Gel.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: -1					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns whenever a Corrupt Slime is defeated.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 121	(first form) (second form)				n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Corruption and Underground Corruption.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 183					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Crimson. Drops 2-4 Gel.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 122					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Hallow at night. Shoots laser beams from range. Does not follow the Slime AI. Drops 5-10 Gel.
File:.png Internal NPC ID: 138					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns in the Underground Hallow. Glows and has an afterimage.
File:.gif Internal NPC ID: 244					n/a	❌	❌	Spawns during rain on non-Hallowed blocks while the player is in the Hallow. Drops Rainbow Bricks. Drops 1-20 Gel.

Exclusive variants

Type	Health	Damage	Defense	Coins	Banner	Additional info
qShadow Slime	125	40 - 53	23	1 80		Spawns in the Corruption. Has a chance to drop a Petri Dish.
qSpectral Gastropod	250	40 - 50	?	6		Spawns at night in the Hallow.

Bonus drops

      

PC/Console/Mobile/Old Chinese/3DS/tModLoader/tModLoader 1.3-Legacy-Only Content: This section's information applies only to the PC, Console, Mobile, Old Chinese, 3DS, tModLoader, and tModLoader Legacy versions of Terraria.

Certain slimes have a 5% (1/20) chance of carrying a bonus item when spawning naturally. This item can be seen inside the slime's body and will drop upon its death.

The slimes that can have bonus drops are:

• Green Slime
• Blue Slime
• Purple Slime
• Red Slime
• Yellow Slime
• Black Slime
• Baby Slime
• Jungle Slime
• Pinky

The bonus drops cannot be seen inside Pinky's body, although they do still drop.

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Item	Chances	Amount
Swiftness Potion	1/28	1
Ironskin Potion	1/28	1
Spelunker Potion	1/28	1
Mining Potion	1/28	1
Recall Potion	1/14	1
Wormhole Potion	1/14	1
Torch	1/16	5-10
Bomb	1/16	2-6
Rope	1/16	20-46
Heart	1/16	1
Copper Ore	1/32	3-13
Tin Ore	1/32	3-13
Iron Ore	1/32	3-13
Lead Ore	1/32	3-13
Tungsten Ore	1/32	3-13
Silver Ore	1/32	3-13
Gold Ore	1/32	3-13
Platinum Ore	1/32	3-13
Copper Coin	1/12	50-99
Silver Coin	1/12	50-99
Gold Coin	1/12	1-3

Notes

• Nearly all slimes can drop the Slime Staff upon death. Depending on the type and rarity of the slime, the drop rate varies between 1/10000 (0.01%) and 1/100 (1%) in normal mode and 1/7000 (0.014%) and 1/70 (1.4%) in Expert mode.
• Smaller slimes may clip through walls and one block-wide holes.
• The Royal Gel accessory (dropped by King Slime in Expert mode) turns all slimes passive (i.e., behaving neutral and not dealing damage), with the exceptions of Spiked Slimes and King Slime himself.

Achievements

Gelatin World Tour • “Defeat every type of slime there is!”

Defeat at least one of every type of slime.

Category: Challenger

Slimer • “You have killed every type of slime!”

Defeat at least one of every type of slime.

Slippery Shinobi • “Defeat King Slime, the lord of all things slimy.”

Defeat King Slime for the first time.

Category: Slayer

Pretty in Pink • “Kill pinky.”

Defeat Pinky for the first time.

Category: Slayer

Tips

• Farming slimes with a Slime Statue can produce an infinite amount of Gel. This can be helpful when using the Flamethrower, which requires Gel as ammunition.

Trivia

• Rainbow Slimes deal the most damage out of all of the slime variants.
• Slimes are hinted to be made of a digestive substance by the Nurse in her dialogue: "You look half digested. Have you been chasing slimes again?"
• The fact that Slimes are usually a player's first enemy encounter is referenced in the painting First Encounter.
• According to the Collector's Edition trading card of the Blue Slime, there is a single source where all the slimes originate, and destroying that source will make the slimes vanish from the world. However, no such source currently exists in the game.
• Grasshoppers use the same AI as slimes, which causes them to hop away from the player during daytime, and towards the player at night.

See also

• Slime Mount – a rideable slime mount
• Baby Slime Minion – a slime minion which fights enemies
• Slime Pet – a slime pet (which will not fight)
• Solidifier – a crafting station for slime-themed furniture
• Slime Rain – a random event where Green, Blue and Purple Slimes rain down from the sky, and King Slime spawns after killing some slimes

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.3.1: Slimes should no longer be able to go through 1 block high gaps.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Slimes are guaranteed to spawn in the Slime Rain event.
  • King Slime can now move through platforms.
  • Slimes can now have items visible inside them that will drop when they die.
  • Some slimes now drop their unique banner when they die instead of Slime Banner.

• Desktop 1.2.2: Present Slime variants introduced.

• Desktop 1.2.1: Bunny Slime introduced.

• Desktop 1.2: Umbrella Slime, Rainbow Slime, Crimslime, Spiked Jungle Slime, Ice Slime, Spiked Ice Slime, and Slimed Zombie introduced.

• Desktop 1.1: Corrupt Slime, Slimeling, Gastropod, Slimer, Toxic Sludge, and Illuminant Slime introduced.

• Desktop 1.0.6.1: Slimes no longer chase the player in water when they are not in aggresive mode.

• Desktop 1.0.6:
  • Dungeon Slime introduced.

• Desktop 1.0.5:
  • Lava Slime introduced.
  • All slimes now float in liquids (water and, for the Lava Slime, lava) and don't make a splash sound when hitting water.
  • Only one giant slime will appear at a time.

• Desktop 1.0.4: King Slime and Jungle Slime introduced.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced all the various colored slimes, Pinky, Mother and Baby Slimes.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.