What Are The Purpose Of Longhair Slicksters?

[vonVile]

Outside of a source of Eggs or Meat they serve no Base function. All they do is breath Oxygen, but produce nothing unlike regular and Magma Slicksters.

[Primalflower]

they have high decor value.

[DolphinWing]

You know that there are always some purely decorative and floating here and there IRL.

[JRup]

They're pretty. Full stop.

I managed to keep a single wild one in my dupe gym for some thousands of cycles. Then the mergedown nation striked and I was sad to only see a puddle of crude oil was left after it had laid a regular slickster egg and having that one die off.

Mop chore aisle 6.

I'll get some back after printing some slickster eggs and morphing them. It will take some time...

[long0900]

Fancy pets

[des06des]

[Steve8]

I think as a meat source they are actually quite effective at converting water to food. While leaving you with some excess hydrogen to burn.

[ZombieDupe]

Excess oxygen can just be turned into lime and food through them I realise, don't need to feed them anything all that special. Would still think they spew some biproduct out like the other forms, but they don't. Spewing water sounds like a good fit.

[psusi]

On 9/29/2021 at 6:54 AM, Steve8 said:

I think as a meat source they are actually quite effective at converting water to food. While leaving you with some excess hydrogen to burn.

You need 2.25 of them breeding to feed one dupe, and they eat 67.5 kg per cycle of oxygen, so your electrolyzers will be burning 76kg per cycle of water to feed one dupe.  Bristle berries only need 60 kg/cycle to feed a dupe, and they are one of the most thirsty food sources you can have.  You only need something like 5kg of water per cycle to feed a dupe if you ranch a few pufts to turn it into slime and grow mushrooms.

If you want something you can ranch for bbq that you don't have to feed much, try dense pufts.  They only eat 2.5 kg/cycle of oxygen ( net ).  Much better than 30.  Of course, nothing beats shove voles.

[JaxckLl]

They are a trap, that makes it more challenging to breed Slicksters. They also produce a large amount of calories per cycle and only require Oxygen as an input. As Oxygen is usually an overabundant resource in longer running bases, this is actually quite a good trade. 

[Sasza22]

Imo longhair slicksters are a nice fail state for the slickster if you don`t keep them in hot enough conditions. Instead of dying and losing all slicksters when you move them to a regular temperature area you get a morph that doesn`t produce oil. Ranching them in regular temperature is a mistake new players are likely to make. The longhair morph makes the mistake less punishing.

[Isidoro]

On 9/29/2021 at 11:20 AM, des06des said:

wat?

am I missing something? how can your decor be above 120? 

[Steve8]

1 hour ago, Isidoro said:

am I missing something? how can your decor be above 120? 

That's a misconception. 120 is the average decor per cycle you need to get the maximum morale bonus. Local decor can be higher

[Isidoro]

19 hours ago, Steve8 said:

That's a misconception. 120 is the average decor per cycle you need to get the maximum morale bonus. Local decor can be higher

Should I take that this "(Maximum Decor)" is due a mod then?  

[Yobbo]

2 hours ago, Isidoro said:

Should I take that this "(Maximum Decor)" is due a mod then?  

Probably Clarified Max Decor. Without this mod the UI is actually lying to you.

[Isidoro]

5 hours ago, Yobbo said:

Probably Clarified Max Decor. Without this mod the UI is actually lying to you.

nope, not subbed to that one, still good to know. thanks!