Slime Rancher 2 features a world ripe with essential resources, secret treasures, and unique slimes. The cozy gameplay is familiar to fans of the series and involves exploring, gardening, raising slimes, and building. Crafting items and equipment is important to make raising slimes and traveling across the vast island easier, but some materials are hard to come across.

Strange Diamonds are one of the rarest natural minerals that spawn on Rainbow Island, and ranchers won't be able to farm them without proper equipment. They are bright blue with a shiny, sparkly sheen and are used in the crafting blueprints found on the island in Slime Rancher 2.

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How To Farm Strange Diamonds

Before players start looking for Strange Diamonds, they must make sure they can Vac them up. Beatrix LaBeau, the playable character, lives in the Conservatory in Rainbow Fields. The Conservatory is where she sleeps, keeps slimes, sells plorts, gardens, and crafts items. Crafting takes place in the underground Lab by using the Refinery and Fabricator.

Whenever players gather plorts and resources, they can shoot them into the Refinery to be used at the Fabricator. The Fabricator stores all the found blueprints and lists all the needed parts and ingredients. Ranchers can only farm Strange Diamonds with the Resource Harvester upgrade from the Fabricator.

The Resource Harvester

The Resource Harvester enhances the Vackpack so that it can pick up the island's natural resources instead of just slimes and plants. Ranchers will need the following items to fabricate it:

• 450 Newbucks
• 10 Cotton plorts

Cotton plorts are found in Rainbow Fields on the northern side. Cotton slimes only eat Veggies, so pick up some Carrots or Water Lettuce to feed them so they'll drop plorts. Players should plan to get extra and maybe even grab some Pink plorts on the way for the Newbucks. Newbucks are earned by selling plorts at the Plort Market in the Conservatory. The Plort Market is an ever-fluctuating slime rancher network to sell plorts, but the prices change daily, so players would do well by keeping up with the price schedule to maximize profit.

Where to Find Strange Diamonds

Strange Diamonds are found with a bit of luck and a lot of time. While they technically can appear anywhere on the island, some areas tend to have them more than others. Ember Valley is the best place to find Strange Diamonds. Ember Valley can only be accessed after players encounter the Pink Gordo slime in Rainbow Fields on the furthest northwestern side of the island. After finding the giant slime, feed it 30+ food items to make it explode. It is sitting on a geyser that takes players to a cliff path that leads to an activation switch. The portal to Ember Valley appears after ranchers interact with the switch.

Ember Valley's notable traits are its geysers and volcano. Strange Diamonds are in the cave systems towards the island's northwest side, but the environment can be dangerous, so move carefully. There are two Strange Diamonds near the Batty Slime, but they are found in other caves.

Slime Rancher 2 is available in Early Access on PC and Xbox Series X/S.

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