Like its predecessor, Slime Rancher 2 is a cozy farming and exploration sim players can get lost in for hours. Beatrix LaBeau finds herself on Rainbow Island, a colorful paradise ripe with slimes, minerals, and resources for players to discover.

Players can jump in and start collecting slimes or spend more time traveling along the island. Slime Rancher 2 has many new areas to unlock and explore, each with new slime species and valuable materials, but it can be quite the undertaking on foot. Players can upgrade their equipment in a few ways, but one of the most useful is getting the Jetpack.

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How To Fabricate The Jetpack

Slime Rancher 2 JetPack

Players can complete upgrades in The Lab. The Lab is located inside the Conservatory underground and is home to the Fabricator and Refinery. Players must activate the Fabricator to build the Jetpack. The Jetpack allows players to jump higher and glide for a short time. This is helpful for finding resources in hard-to-reach spots or avoiding confrontational slimes. Once energy hits 0, players will fall, but they can also upgrade their Power Core at the Fabricator to use the Jetpack longer. Players will need to collect the following items before they can upgrade their equipment:

  • 450 Newbucks
  • 10 Phosphor Plorts
  • 10 Radiant Ore

The Plorts and Radiant Ore must be inserted into the Refinery for players to use in the Fabricator. The Refinery is a storage system for Plorts and other Resources to be used for fabricating. There are a few portals around Rainbow Island, so players can deposit items into the Refinery without returning to the Conservatory.

Earning NewbucksSlime Rancher 2 Plort Market

Newbucks are the currency players can use to build different farm plots, upgrade their Vacpack and equipment, and expand their Conservatory. Newbucks are earned at the Plort Market, an online network that slime ranchers use to sell slime plorts. The prices fluctuate daily, and players can find various slime species to get plorts from and earn more money. When slimes eat, they drop plorts, and since slimes are almost always hungry, players essentially have an endless supply of them.

Plorts can be found randomly in the wild when slimes eat. However, players can purchase a Corral and keep slimes in their Conservatory to farm them faster. To sell plorts, vac them up and shoot them into the Plort Market portal. The Newbucks will be deposited immediately into the player's inventory.

How To Get Phosphor Plorts

Slime Rancher 2 Phosphor Slime

Phosphor plorts come from Phosphor slimes. Different areas of the island have endemic slime species with preferred diets and habitats. Some slimes can only survive in dark environments with no direct sunlight. Phosphor slimes fall into that category. They are light blue with a yellow, glowing center and have two antennas coming from their head. They have small wings attached to their bodies but float rather than fly.

Phosphor slimes can be found in most places throughout the island, but they only appear at night. Players should be weary when farming slimes at night because Tarr slimes, black carnivorous cannibalistic slimes, are more active at night. To keep Phosphor slimes at the Conservatory, players should take the time to upgrade their corrals with a Solar Shield. In addition, High Walls and an Air Net are recommended because they can jump higher. Phosphor slimes only eat fruit, but if they merge with Pink slimes, they can eat anything, so farming plorts is quick work.

Find and Collect Radiant Ore

Slime Rancher 2 Radiant Ore

Radiant Ore is the most challenging ingredient to find for the Jetpack because acquiring it requires a few extra steps. First, players must upgrade their Vacpack with the Resource Harvester. The Resource Harvester upgrade requires 450 Newbucks and 10 Cotton Plorts. This allows players to suck up science resources around the island, including Radiant Ore.

Radiant Ore spawns randomly on Rainbow Island, but it grows in abundance in Ember Valley, an un-lockable location on Rainbow Island. After farming Radiant Ore, players must return to The Conservatory and insert it into the Refinery. Finally, players can use the Fabricator to get the Jetpack once they have all the materials.

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

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