How to complete a Slime Rancher Speedrun

While any player can successfully speedrun Slime Rancher, a few goals and exploits must be met in the process. These exploits are shortcuts of sorts that can cut down the time players need to spend on actually reaching each of the required checkpoints within the game. We'll cover all of the necessary checkpoints and exploits you need to know in the guide below.

Satisfying the Pink Gordo's Hunger

The first checkpoint of the game is to fill the Pink Gordo until he bursts into several small pink slimes.

• Grab 30 Carrots/Pogofruit
• Take a precise route between each Carrot patch and Pogofruit tree
• Jump off the ledge overlooking the Pink Gordo
• Run part way up the dock to shoot the food into the Pink Gordo's mouth
• Wait for the Pink Gordo to explode
• Grab a few Pink Slimes on the way out

Gate One: Warp Home

Players will then need to warp home by making it throught the Moss Blanket gate.

• Head left up the path away from where you came
• Shoot a Slime at the ground to boost a jump onto the ledge with the large Pogofruit tree
• Do this trick once more to jump onto the farther ledge
• Then shoot Slimes against the rocks forming on the left side to climb up the wall
• Next, you'll want to jump down toward the bridges across the water
• Use a Slime held below you to bounce above the water
• Land on the closest rock and use another Slime to climb up the rockwall to the bridges
• Head to the first gate and use the Slime Key to open it
• Don't wait for the gate to open, instead use Slimes to scale the wall
• Don't use the path—jump over to the ledge on the opposite side
• Don't jump down the hole! Instead, jump off of its roots and over the ledge to the farthest level below
• Run down the path and jump on the ledge to the right
• Run straight ahead and back down to the lower level
• Follow the path into the Danger Zone and collect some Mint Mangos and Cuberries
• Collect a few Boom Slime and Honey Plorts
• Then warp home at the end of the trail

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Satisfying the Phosphor Gordo's Hunger

This next section takes a little more planning out as the player collects and grows what they need for the Phosphor Gordo.

Day 1 Tasks

• Drop all Slimes and Plorts once arriving home
• Start a Mint Mango garden plot
• Collect a couple Pogofruit
• End day

Day 2 Tasks

• End day

Day 3 Tasks

• Collect all Honey and Boom Plorts supplied by the Boom/Honey Slime hybrids
• Sell all Plorts
• Collect Mint Mangos
• Start Pogofruit garden
• Start two Cuberry gardens
• End day

Day 4 Tasks

• End day

Day 5 Tasks

• Buy the Jetpack, Dashboots, Power Core, and Tank Booster upgrades
• Collect 30 Cuberries
• Collect 30 Mint Mangos
• Run out to where the Rock Slime and Pink Slime fight
• Collect a Rock Slime Plort
• Collect a Slime to jump down onto the ledge outside of the Phospor Gordo's cave
• Feed the Phosphor Gordo Cuberries until it explodes

Satisfy the Honey Gordo's Hunger

• Feed the Phosphor Slimes until they produce Plorts
• Grab Phosphor Slimes and their Plorts
• Use the Slimes to jump back out of the cave
• Grab Wooden Box to bounce over the ocean to Moss Blanket
• Head up to the left to find the Honey Gordo
• Feed Mint Mangos until the Honey Gordo explodes

Gate Two: Emergency Warp Home

• Take the path back out of the Moss Blanket and up to the East Courtyard gate
• Grab a Hen Hen and Tabby Slime along the way
• Use Slime Key to unlock the gate
• While waiting for the gate, feed the Tabby Slime the Hen Hen and collect the Tabby Plort
• Keep to the left through the gate and jump on the ledge
• Shoot the Tabby Plort at the left-most Slime statue
• Shoot the Phosphor Plort at the middle Slime statue
• Shoot the Rock Plort at the right-most Slime statue
• Reach and open the next gate to the far right
• Don't wait for it to open—instead, knock Beatrix out to return home

The Ancient Ruins Gate

• After waking up, wait another day
• Grab the second Tank Booster upgrade
• Harvest all Cuberries and demolish their plots
• Harvest all Mint Mangos and demolish its plot
• Harvest all Pogofruit
• Grab large Boom-Honey hybrid Slime to jump and float over the canyon terrain to reach the Rock and Pink Slimes
• Run through the cavern with the hybrid Slime, using it as a shield and manuevering object
• Collect a Rad Plort by shaking a Rad Slime
• Use the hybrid Slime to scale the wall next to the giant bones and jump across the water on the other side
• Collect Pogofruit along the way
• Reach the statue area and give the statue to your immediate left the Rad Plort
• Feed the hybrid Slime to collect Honey and Boom Plorts
• Give a Honey Plort to the statue in just past the Rad statue
• Give the Boom Plort to the statue in the grass before the singing gate
• Scale the wall with the hybrid Slime as it unlocks

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Satisfying the Quantum Gordo's Hunger

• Activate the first pillar in the Ancient Ruins
• Take the hybrid Slime through the ruins, keeping to the right side away from the path
• Scale the wall near the far-right corner
• Jump onto the wall to the right
• Follow the wall forward across the waterfalls
• Head diagonally-right across the next section
• Activate the globe here to open the Quantum Gordo's cave beneath
• Feed the Quantum Gordo Mint Mango and Pogofruit until he explodes

Gate Four & the Dervish Gordo

• Collect Quantum Slimes and at least five Quantum Plorts
• Use similar shortcuts as before to quickly reach the third gate
• Unlock the gate with the Slime Key
• Follow the path down and give a Quantum Plort to each of the statues
• Use the activated portal to the next section
• Head straight down the path
• Keep right once the path opens up and scale the far wall
• Feed the Dervish Gordo Pogofruit and Cuberries until it explodes

Gate Five & The H Note

• Take the path previously hidden by the Dervish Gordo to the fifth gate
• Unlock the fifth gate
• Follow the path and take a right
• Jump off the ledge and take another right
• Follow the cave and use a Slime to jump up a level
• Run all the way down the path and take a left out
• Head past the H notes and into the Slime Temple
• Activate the very last H note and knock out Beatrix again
• Then sleep until the 15th day to reach the credits

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