Slime Rancher: How to Get Slime Fossils and What They're For

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Slime Rancher is an exercise in constant escalation. Players enter the classic farming game loop of gathering resources to upgrade their farm, which will give them more resources to further upgrade their farm.

This is why it's important for players to get The Lab farm expansion relatively early. It's how the player gets most of their new gadgets and upgrades.

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Of course, even with the lab, players still need to gather ingredients and craft each gadget. For players who want to fully explore and exploit the map, finding slime fossils in Slime Rancher is a must.

The good news is, unlike Slime Rancher's Indigonium, slime fossils are not restricted to certain areas of the map. Players can plop a drill down and theoretically find them anywhere, and there doesn't seem to be specific areas where their drop rate improves.

The bad news is that they're an uncommon drill resource, so it still may take a while to find some. Thankfully, their chances of finding uncommon and rare drops increase as they upgrade their drill. The tier 4 titan drill is 5 times more likely to drop a slime fossil than the novice drill.

The functional purpose of the slime fossils isn't immediately clear. The majority of the recipes that require it are decorations and curios, which aren't exactly game-changing.

The decorations that use slime fossils in their crafting recipes are:

The curio recipes that use slime fossils are:

While these recipes are in the minority, they're the most useful. Players should prioritize them over the decorations. Players can use 4 slime fossils, alongside 8 of Slime Rancher's wild honey, 12 hunter plort, and 20 pink plort, in order to make a taming bell. This