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alright, so i have been on a hell of a hunt to find some slime, i have spent (i think) 8 hours in game and an ungodly amount of time on the wiki page for slime balls to come where i am now, you guys are my last hope. so i used the slime finder and dug out the max area where the slime spawn. i waited like 30 seconds (i was a pretty pumped to check it out) and, boom, there was a big ol' slime, but even though i hit him with my fists, he died and no smaller slimes came out. so then, i wait and came back only to find nothing, i did this probably 20 or so more times before losing hope and spent some time on the another project. then, i came back and boom, a mid-sized slime was there only to broke up in to 4 small slimes yet no slimeballs dropped. rad. and all of today, i have been doing work around the house and then i sit down, turn on the box and check my lair to see if any slimes have arrived on my nice little flat. but none have, i have been doing this from 9 this morning to (now) 9 at night. am i too far away when i start to head down and slimes dont have enough time to spawn? what am i doing wrong? is there a trick to having them spawn in there spawn-able area? thanks for the help, this would mean a lot if i could get this slime endeavor out of the way and get back to work.

I belive that your slime box thing room is not big enough thats why it only spawned a mid size slime make it Longer and 1 block higher Take a screen of the room if posible pls Thank you add AgentX44Jobo for more help

Quote from MrPinoyRocker

I belive that your slime box thing room is not big enough thats why it only spawned a mid size slime make it Longer and 1 block higher Take a screen of the room if posible pls Thank you add AgentX44Jobo for more help

when i made my room, it was actually 2 slime spawn-able areas in one and i dug one out completely and the other out half way, i have it 3 high. also the first slime that spawned was the largest one.

Quote from Damien4004

One of the problems you might be having is you have a lot of caves around the slime chunk that haven't been lit up. Even if you have a slime farm, other mobs have a greater chance to spawn. Not only do slimes have a lower chance of spawning, but a big cave would have more blocks for mobs to spawn on, compared to the 16 or so blocks for slimes.

i think you found the problem here, because i will find monsters in the room even though i have over 9000 torches. any "quick tips" to help find the neighboring caves?