Slime Rancher

Update: It looks like they updated the game and changed this achievement slightly (it used to be 50k, now it says 75k). Hopefully this solution still works, but please check the comments, and comment if you have new tips.
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Here's my video guide for 5-Day Rush -- you can easily get over 100,000 newbucks if you want, and it's pretty fun! If you already know how to unlock the Moss Blanket, you can skip to 1:35. Update: in the comments someone confirmed you must have 50k ON YOU at the end (not spent). It's very easy to do if you follow this method.

A recent patch completely changed how Rush mode works. The prior solutions are no longer valid - the devs didn't just increase the threshold from 50k to 75k - they made other gameplay changes that completely change the strategy.

I found a very well written guide for the new mode (not written by me - all credit to the author):

https://gameplay.tips/guides/2198-slime-rancher.html

But I'll also give a quick introduction to the changes, as this new mode requires a big change in mindset. New Rush mode is not about building up an economy of valuable largos eating their favorite foods. I tried the honey-boom strategy on my first attempt, and I barely made 50k.

Instead, Rush mode is now all about the trade interface. First, you start with a 3 day time limit, but every trade you make will add 12 hours to the time limit. To get back to the 5 day limit of the old solution, you have to complete every single trade. There's a lot of luck here - if you get a hard trade early on, you might as well restart. I missed the last trade but got every other, and I barely scored high enough for the achievement.

Second, every trade also rewards you with 6 Gilded Gingers. And, there are a lot of Gold Gordos scattered throughout the world. And, you start with every upgrade, including the Golden Sureshot (feeding any food to a Gold Slime results in 3 Gold Plorts). In my winning attempt, over 2/3 of my score was from Gold Plorts.

To get the plorts, you have to find a Gold Gordo (locations in the above linked guide) and feed it 3 Gilded Gingers. It will pop and burst out 10 Gold Slimes that despawn after a second or two, so you have to be fast: While it's exploding, switch to any food item (except not Gilded Gingers) and spam them at the Gold Slimes. Since you have Golden Sureshot, each slime you hit will turn into 3 Gold Plorts. The max you can get is 30 Plorts, worth almost 10k on the market.

So, primary goal is completing trades. Each one gives you 12 more hours and enough Gilded Gingers to pop 2 Gold Gordos, worth perhaps 15k in total (varies depending on how fast/accurate you are at throwing food at disappearing slimes)

Secondary goal: The Rush game now gives an end game bonus. Every time you sell 25 of a plort type, it gets a star (only one star per plort type). At the end of the game, you get a bonus to your score for each star that you got. The bonus is roughly 5% per plort type. You can see the star on the board during the game. There's also a border around the plort icon that fills up, indicating how close you are to the 25 threshold for that plort.

So now your goal is to get a wide variety of plorts for the bonus. Each plort is worth roughly 100 extra NewBucks in bonus until you hit 25 (50k base score, 5% bonus, divided evenly across 25 plorts to get the bonus). So it's worth it to farm up to 25 for any plort, even the pink ones.

Finally, you start with some science lab items already available to build. Use them! You have 3 teleporters - the very first thing you do should be to throw one end of each down in the Ranch (well, first open the trade interface - remember, that's priority #1). Then you have flexibility for where to throw the other ends of them. You should definitely throw the other ends deep into other areas - you never know what the next trade will require.

What I did (and this is probably not optimal) was have 2 gardens and 2 corals, each with different high value Largos inside (and gardens growing their favorite food). This was my boom-honeys and rad-crystals (two combos that can easily be gotten early in the game). Don't have 2 corals with the same boom-honey combo - remember, we want variety of plorts. Then I had a 3rd coral where I'd throw less valuable slimes or largos in, feed them whatever, get to 25, then kill all of them and replace them with something else. By the end of the game, I had barely over 50k NewBucks, and a bonus of about 50%, which barely put me over the edge to get the achievement.

Happy hunting. This achievement definitely got harder due to these changes.

*Post Update 1.2.0*

I followed Xenosiac's detailed guide here and I made a video of my playthrough for you to follow along if that helps:
https://gameplay.tips/guides/2198-slime-rancher.html

I was able to finish with over 170,000 NewBucks in Day 4, with 100,000 NewBucks before the plort bonuses were even added (+5% for every 25 plorts of each type sold to the market).

Here's a quick checklist of what I did during my run which you want to accomplish as quickly as possible:
- 3 Range Exchange requests completed
- 6 Golden Gordos fed with roughly 25 gold plorts collected from each
- 4 Other Gordos obtaining Slime Keys:
> 2 x Pink Gordo (Dry Reef, Ring Island)
> 1 x Phosphor Gordo (Dry Reef)
> 1 x Honey Gordo (Moss Blanket)
- 5 Fully upgraded Mint Mango gardens (4 would be ok, Scareslime not necessary)
- 4 Fully upgraded Prickly Pear gardens in Lab ranch expansion
- 5 Fully upgraded corrals (sun blocker not necessary):
> 2 containing 10 Honey Quantum Largos (main area)
> 2 containing 10 Mosaic Dervish Largos (main area)
> 1 containing 10 Honey Tangle Largos (set up in one of the neighboring
ranch expansions)

If you guys are anything like me, you want a step by step guide on how to tackle achievements like this so you aren't wasting time trying something that isn't going to work.

StevesTurn provides some good tips for tackling this achievement, but most importantly, they provided the link to a fairly well detailed guide (Credit to Xenosiac: https://gameplay.tips/guides/2198-slime-rancher.html) on how to tackle this achievement after Rush mode was reworked. Unfortunately, I feel the guide is a little wordy in places and provides too little information in others.

So I have decided to write a step by step guide that should see you getting far more than the required 75k! This guide will borrow heavily from the above mentioned guide and will have some improvements that I believe will make your experience smoother after testing the original guide myself.

Let me start off by saying RNG is going to play a staring role in getting this achievement, the jobs you will be given each day are completely random, and if they require you to enter areas completely out of the way it's going to cause problems that might end your run before it's really started, especially if you are forced to use a precious key to open a new area.
The best thing you can do is to put yourself into a position were you have so much time on your hands that you will struggle to fail.
Following these steps should get you there, but you will have to deviate at certain points in order to complete your daily jobs. I will not tell you when to complete these jobs, but if possible, you should aim to complete them as you tackle the steps listed below.

So, without further ado, lets begin:

1. Clear the ranch of all slimes and quickly dispose of them.
2. Check the first job.
3. Place down one of each teleporter in the ranch.
4. Grab 20 veg, 30+ fruit and a chicken. (collect more fruit and veg as you complete the below steps)
5. Use the veg to pop the Pink Gordo on the island in The Dry Reef.
6. Use the fruit to pop the Phosphor Gordo in the cave in the Dry Reef.
7. Use the chicken to pop the Tabby Gordo in the Dry Reef.
8. Use one of the two keys you now have to unlock the Moss Blanket.
9. Place your first teleporter inside the Moss Blanket to allow quick travel back and forth.
10. Return to the ranch using the nearest teleporter.
11. At this point you should have completed the first job, if not, you need to complete it ASAP!
12. pick up your newly acquired Gilded Ginger, a chicken, and about 50+ pieces of fruit and/or veg.
13. Pop the Gold Gordo immediately outside the ranch and sell the Plorts.
14. Head to the Tabby Gordo guarding the teleporter to Ring Island and use a chicken to pop it.
15. Use the teleporter to Ring Island.
16. Pop the Pink Gordo on Ring island and take its key.
17. Pop one of the Gold Gordos on Ring island and head back to the ranch.
18. You should have about 15k to spend on upgrades at the ranch. Build and upgrade four corrals on the outskirt of the starting area (Skip the Solar Shield upgrade). Build and upgrade four gardens in the four plots next to each other (Skip the Scareslime upgrade), you will need to destroy the prebuilt Corral to do this.
19. Use the teleporter to head back to the Moss Blanket and go pop the Honey Gordo (You will need 30 fruit), make sure to suck up the 10 Honey Slimes it drops and grab the key.
20. Grab four Mint Mangoes.
21. Return to the ranch and put five Honey Slimes into two of the corrals side by side.
22. Plant the Mint Mangoes.
23. Head back to the Moss Blanket and go open the door leading to the Ancient Ruins using your second key. Bring either, three Rock Slime Plorts or three pieces of veg (To feed the Rock Slimes found in the Glass Desert for Plorts).
24. Run through the ruins straight to the door leading to the teleporter to the Glass Desert and use your third key to open it, making sure to grab 10 Quantum Slimes along the way.
25. Make your way through the teleporter to the Glass Desert and head towards the Rock Slime Oases.
26. Place down your second teleporter in this area.
27. If you have the Rock Slime Plorts you can now activate the Oases. Use the Ancient Water to bring life back to the immediate area.
28. Use the teleporter you just placed to return to the ranch and place five Quantum Slimes into each of the corrals containing the Honey Slimes.
29. Feed the slimes with the Mint Mangoes so that they become Honey Quantum Largos.
30. At this point you should be on day two, day three is okay but you will need to get a move on. If you are up to day four you have taken far too long and should restart.
31. I would suggest building a Silo in the Grotto to store any Gilded Ginger you have acquired up to this point for use a little later, this will free up inventory space. Do not leave it lying on the ground as rogue slimes may eat it!
32. Return to the Glass Desert using the teleporter and get ahold of 10 Dervish Slimes, 10 Mosaic Slimes and some Prickly Pears.
33. Return to the ranch and place five of each slime into the two remaining Corrals.
34. Head to the Laboratory area and build and upgrade four Gardens and one Corral.
35. Plant the Prickly pears in the newly built Gardens.
36. Return to the Desert once more and use a chicken to pop the Tangled Gordo. Suck up the 10 Tangled Slimes it leaves behind.
37. Return to the ranch and place the 10 Tangled Gordos in the Corral at the Lab! It is crucial that they are far away from any other Slimes as they can use their roots to grab Plorts from outside their Corral! You do not want a Tarr outbreak.
38. Place your portable market near the Tangled Slime Corral for convenience.
39. Go and grab 10 Honey Plorts and bring them back to the Tangled Slimes to create Tangled Honey Largos. You will need to feed them Mint Mangoes to keep them calm.
40. Your Prickly Pears should have finished growing by this point, so take them and feed the Dervish Slimes to create Dervish Mosaic Largos.

At this point all the hard work is out of the way and you can focus on using your remaining time to hunt down the remaining Gold Gordos, a good time to hunt them is at night when Slimes / Food is hard to find and you have little else to do.

You should have one key left at this point unless a job forced you to open up somewhere else already. This key should be used to open up the Indigo Mines so you can gain access to Ash Island which houses three Gold Gordos.
If you need an additional key, the Dervish slime found in the Glass Desert is an easy target.

One Slime you might be tasked with finding for a job is the Hunter Slime, this guy is really hard to track down as he can go invisible. As such, a great way to find a guaranteed source is from the Hunter Gordo found on the Feral path. As an added bonus, this guy is also holding a Slime Key which may come in handy.
You may also want to preemptively grow any difficult to find fruit or veg in case it appears on a job board. This would include Silver Parsnips, Phase Lemons and Odd Onions. Keep an eye out in boxes for these fruit and veg as an easy source for one or two of them which you can grow into many more if need be.

Continue to feed your Largos and sell their Plorts in between completing any remaining jobs.
Don't worry about getting 25 of each Slime, the Plorts you get from your Largos and the Gold Gordos will be more than enough. Besides, if you have reached this point the income you will now generate will be more than enough to hit the 75k mark.

If you have kept up and made good time, you should only be on your third or fourth day by this point and likely already have enough Newbucks to get the 75k when factoring in the bonus you receive for selling 25 of each Plort.

I ended with 195k and could have easily let time run out after completing the second job, but decided to keep going just to make certain.

Remember, the key is the Gold Gordos, they alone made up 70,200 of my total score, which just shows the value of hunting the eight possible Gordos.
My advice for getting the most out of these is as follows:

• Keep a good distance away so the Gold Slimes aren't immediately aware of you when the Gordo pops.
• Have a good amount of food on hand (30+) that you can rapidly fire into the area. You should start firing before the Gordo has popped to make sure you hit the slimes as soon as possible.
• Approach slowly in case any Gold Slimes are still around.
• The locations of each Gold Gordo can be found here: https://slimerancher.fandom.com/wiki/Rush_Mode/Gold_Gordo_Lo...
• I suggest ignoring the two in the Glass Desert and the one on the Feral Path as they are all out of the way. The others are all nicely grouped together or in an area you will likely have visited anyways.

Some tips for unlocking this:

Have a plan
Always Run
only have a 1-1 ratio Corrals to Gardens
Unlock only 1 area, I use Moss Blanket
Pop the Gordo to teleport to said area
Buy expansion for Ranch to teleport to area(IE mines=Indigo, Overgrowth=Blanket)
Only spend what you need to, doesn't count at the end
Only use Largos with Honey/Rad/Rock slimes, so you can feed from Garden
Try Try Try!
Have 2-3 hours to attempt

Video with tips as well, hope it helps!

This strategy works with the new update.

I took from some of the other guides on here and then added some changes to reflect the update. At the end of my run, I had 117k on hand and then bonuses from plorts. well over the achievement requirement.

Similarly to other guides, I began by placing down all three teleports and I placed one of the links. I used the link to store my gilded's until I was ready to use them. Then, I quickly got rid of the 3-4 pink slime that start on the ranch, dismantled the coral, and gathered up all the fruits and veggies I could find on the ranch.

Check the first quest (you will need to do all of the quests fast enough to win as they give time bonuses). If it's a crappy quest, restart. Otherwise, look for the quest items while getting the slime keys from both the pink and phosphor gordos. At this point, I turned in the first quest, stored my gildeds, and then was gone. It's best to run around to do stuff between quests.

Go unlock the cat teleport and then cross the bridge to get into moss. I threw my first teleporter down when I stepped into moss (because it's near the way to glass desert/ancient ruins). Take a left from the moss entrance and keep going straight to where the honey gordo area is. Suck up as many boom and honey slimes as well as any mint fruits you can get your hands on. Take out the honey gordo for another slime key. You can get more honey and boom slimes by backtracking and going down the tunnel with the aggressive slimes (towards the one-way exit). Suck up slimes on the way and then exit back to your ranch.

Grow as many gardens as you can in that initial ranch area and then release all your boom and honey slimes. I think I had about 35 between the two types. Plant as many mint trees as possible (no upgrades) and leave the slimes to do their thing. Pick up the next quest and work towards that. Meanwhile, go back to Moss and open the door towards ancient ruins. Then unlock the door from there to indigo. Run through indigo to ash island and, once there, throw another teleport point down.

At this point you can either get a slime key from the crystal gordo in ash island or the pink gordo on the island off of dry reef. After, go back to the moss teleport and to the ancient ruins. Run through the ruins until you get to the door to glass desert. Unlock it, get to glass, and then go down the steps and hang a right. Make your way to where the tango gordo is and revive the two flowers in front. Put your final teleport in this area. Next, suck up dervish and Mosiac slimes + pickle pears (you can find them in those revived areas). Pop the tango gorgo and suck up all the tangos. Go back to your ranch.

Go down to the dock area (far from where your honey/boom mixtures are), and build two corals. Put half of your dervish + mosiac in one and the other half of the dervish + tangos in the other. Build two gardens and plant pickle pears. Feed the slimes to keep them sated and so they'll start transforming. Fully upgrade your two corals, but leave the gardens as is.

Go back to your ranch. If you have time before the new quest, suck up all of the boom/honey plorts and turn those in. Otherwise, do the next quest. At this point, any time you're not doing a quest you should be working on turning in all of your gilded. Go for the ones near your teleports - ash isles, just outside of ranch, moss vault area, the dry reef island area - whatever is easiest for you to get to quickly. Turn in all of your gold ports. Suck up more boom/honey and go get the dervish/mosiac/tango plorts too. refill their corals. Rinse and repeat.

I just completed this achievement with 65k newbucks and 25% bonus with five different plorts types at 25 or above for the bonus. The other guides provide detailed info for where slimes and gordos are, below is what I did to get 65k newbucks.

I had the following to generate crystal and honey plorts in the main area of the ranch:
4x mint mango gardens fully upgraded
4x Upgraded corrals with Crystal/Honey Largos about 10 in each corral

I started by doing the first order and collecting veg and fruit for the pink gordos for the two keys.
I planted a carrot, pogo fruit and cuberry gardens in the cave area for ease of access. I also had a corral with rad/boom largos in just as an small extra, this is how I did the 25 rad plort bonus.

I completed three market orders and popped 6 out of 8 gold gordos with an average of 25 gold plorts each.

I didn't need to go to the glass desert meaning I only needed two keys to access indigo quarry for the crystals slimes and moss blanket for the honey slimes. I was lucky that the three orders I completed did not need anything from glass desert.

It is essential you use the transporters and know the map areas, I used this guide:
https://gameplay.tips/guides/2198-slime-rancher.html