A longhair conundrum.

[JRup]

Longhair slicksters are something many usually avoid or get rid of the eggs as soon as possible...

Of all the possible fates which I will not elaborate here, (you know what you did, you monsters) a different path is also there:

Warm up the longhair slickster and let it live until it drops a different type of morph egg. Easy, right? Right?

Well, there's the rub. Genetic ooze makes it annoyingly difficult. A long life expectancy also has a thing or two to say. 

Then there's the "new and updated" temperature mechanics that will make it "easier" for critters to croak when outside the survivable temperature range, which brings us to this:

So yes, -50 °C through 100 °C. Easy peasy. But what if:

What if you're hoping for a molten slickster?

This may need adjusting. Also, the Larva Egg chances has no flavor text letting us know why it's rising. So, a little care should be in order.

Just chiming in and leaving this little tidbit of fun. Feel free to bash on those keyboards of yours and leave your experiences with this minor oddity of a critter.

[BezKa]

I like to put them in a frequently passed area. I also think they are unbelievably cute and I love having them around. Used to put them in bedrooms, but the chance they'd lay a normal slickster egg and flood the place with oil was a bit too high.

As for the molten slickster from longhair, the temperature range mechanic change warrants either the morph be completely removed (possibly both ways?), or we need like a 10C leeway.

[Tigin]

Lemon squeezy. Keep the floor extra spicy but the slicker in vacuum. Their feet doesn’t mind the heat as they don’t have feet 

[KittenIsAGeek]

On 2/16/2025 at 9:33 PM, JRup said:

Longhair slicksters are something many usually avoid or get rid of the eggs as soon as possible...

I actually put effort into creating longhair slicksters.  

Anyway, if you want to go from longhair to traditional slicksters, then move the eggs into a hot room before they hatch.  If you're not taming them, then this will be a hundred cycle or so process, but that's the easiest way.  If you're wanting molten slicksters, then its easiest just to move a normal slickster egg into a hotter room.  Going from a longhair to a molten is really difficult because the living range of the longhair barely overlaps with the comfortable range of the molten.  In order to warm the longhair up enough to produce molten eggs, you're going to need a very hot room, one the longhair might take damage in.

[asurendra]

Longhairs is quite good. Assuming that we feed them with O2 from SPOM, they are more water-efficient food makers than bristle blossom. Easy barbeque... Also they will give you egg shels which is fine too.