I get every kind of monster there is except slimes. All I need is two slime balls to finish my mob spawner and the Slimes are no where to be found... Any tips as to how to track and find them? Or is there an easier way to get slime balls?
You can prowl around nearby swamps, but they're not always nearby. Chunkbase also has a Slimechunk mod available on their site that will tell you if your current chunk is a slime chunk (Slime chunk: Yes) and whether you are within the correct Y range if it is (Slime chunk: Yes, but too high up). I think it handles swamps as well, but that's not too important since swamps are kind of obvious as it is.
@DuhDerp.... do Swamplands count as Swamps?
I searched the past two days for a swamp and the only thing I can find is swampland. can slimes spawn in here?
Swampland = Swamp. Minecraft only has two swamp-ish biomes, Swampland and Swampland M (slimes and witch huts can't spawn here), so when you see someone mention "swamp" they usually mean the Swampland biome that slimes spawn in.
Slime spawning is a 50/50 roll. One side of the roll is exclusively for slimes, the other side is for creepers/skeletons/zombies/witches (and I guess for neutrals like spider and wolf). On top of that, a new moon essentially invalidates slime spawns. There might also be something involving time spent in a chunk/area that affects spawn rate, allowing us to travel through distant biomes on our way to some other destination without a crowd of hostiles to dodge.
The following is my personal (and probably incorrect) opinion based solely on my encounters with slimes in swampland biomes, but I think slimes don't actually ever spawn outside of slime chunks and that when a slime chunk appears in a swamp it just tacks on the y=50-70 range for swamp surface area instead of limiting the spawn range to y <=39. I rarely encounter slimes in swamps at all, but when I do encounter them I generally keep encountering them at a fast enough rate that I have to at least occasionally deal with them. If they could spawn anywhere there were swamps, you would think there would be more in general when surrounded on all sides by swampland.
I can't remember ever seeing slimes in a swamp, though I've never spent much time there.
I've always found more than enough slimes running around in caves and mine shafts and the small ones sometimes show up in my branch mines.
But then I do spend a lot of time underground.
Once you find slimes you could keep track of where and come back later to find more, perhaps put up some fences to identify the slime chunk and expand it.
http://chunkbase.com/apps/slime-finder
I searched the past two days for a swamp and the only thing I can find is swampland. can slimes spawn in here?
Slime spawning is a 50/50 roll. One side of the roll is exclusively for slimes, the other side is for creepers/skeletons/zombies/witches (and I guess for neutrals like spider and wolf). On top of that, a new moon essentially invalidates slime spawns. There might also be something involving time spent in a chunk/area that affects spawn rate, allowing us to travel through distant biomes on our way to some other destination without a crowd of hostiles to dodge.
The following is my personal (and probably incorrect) opinion based solely on my encounters with slimes in swampland biomes, but I think slimes don't actually ever spawn outside of slime chunks and that when a slime chunk appears in a swamp it just tacks on the y=50-70 range for swamp surface area instead of limiting the spawn range to y <=39. I rarely encounter slimes in swamps at all, but when I do encounter them I generally keep encountering them at a fast enough rate that I have to at least occasionally deal with them. If they could spawn anywhere there were swamps, you would think there would be more in general when surrounded on all sides by swampland.
I've always found more than enough slimes running around in caves and mine shafts and the small ones sometimes show up in my branch mines.
But then I do spend a lot of time underground.
Once you find slimes you could keep track of where and come back later to find more, perhaps put up some fences to identify the slime chunk and expand it.
Just testing.