Are Terraria slimes sticky or slippery?
Are Terraria slimes sticky or slippery?
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:13 Team Sticky v. Team Slippery
1:49 Democracy
2:03 Outside of the Binary
2:11 The Membrane Theory
3:05 A Material Expansion
3:55 A Material Expansion: Flammability
4:26 Regarding Pinky
4:41 Wrap Up & Conclusion
5:31 Outro
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Are Terraria slimes sticky or slippery?
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Three cards or two?
I have my own theory. Slimes have 2 states: Slippery and sticky. When a Slime is alive, their "brain capacity" keeps their estructure solid and slippery. When a Slime dies, their liquid falls down abecause they can't control their properties anymore. This would make sense why the Gelatinator (I think it's called like that), an item dropped by the King Slime, can give the gel a more "alive" state.
Any theories on why there’s modern firearms and other modern tech in a world that seems pretty unexplored and has a lack of a proper civilisation?
I like the idea that while Terraria’s world is already as wacky and fantastical as it is, its technological advancements are still around maybe 16th-18th century, and they heavily rely on salvaged tools, weapons and powers they didn’t create and don’t fully understand. Like, modern firearms and other modern tech magically appeared in Terraria’s world, and are viewed by the inhabitants similarly to magic: mysterious otherworldly relics. And just as some Terrarians favour magic and try to harness it, there are Terrarians like the Arms Dealer who enjoy the novelty of not-yet-invented firearms and go around collecting them, maybe looking to reverse engineer them.
Obviously I know everything in Terraria is just for gameplay and the world’s logic makes no sense, but I like this idea for firearms at least. Because I can’t quite imagine the existence of industrial cities and factories somewhere in Terraria’s world when you have explorers cutting down trees and making wooden houses…
frozen slime blocks being frictionless could imply that the stickiness of slime depends on temperature, which makes sense.
for regular slime blocks though, it could be due to compression
slimes regularly are cold in temperature, due to them not being “sticky”
however, when killed, they stop being cold, causing them to be sticky
is this a dumb theory? yes
Im gonna go with viscous
Perhaps both,with the inner slime veing sticky and the outer layer being slippery
This theory makes me think that the slimes going through walls at times is completely intentional (I know it’s not intentional, I’m just making a silly tie-in)
Maybe they absorb the outer layer into the center, allowing them to slip through the blocks?
Both is good
Another thing with pinky is that pink gel (I think) isnt used for anything flamable, like amo for the flamethrower.
id say its plausible to think that (much like real world jello) its slick so long as its wet enough and when enough water evaporates it becomes sticky. so maybe slimes have some sort of unseen organelle that allows them to keep a certain water content but when they die the gel cant be automatically rehydrated so it becomes sticky. which would also explain why it can be used for binding asphalt together (since that process is very hot the water in the gel will entirely evaporate leaving the super sticky gel behind) and also used for super slippery frozen gel blocks (the water is preserved because its frozen and new water is introduced with the ice blocks)
I believe they have an outer membrane that is neither, like a like a mike n ike but softer. The membrane itself is slippery because its fatty molecules, but the actual slime is a denser sticky semiliquid
i like my slimes drippy bruh
at least it's not sticky and bouncy at the same time, like aren't those opposite properties? how can something bounce things away from it and stick to others at the same time?
oh ye right pinky…
do you know what else is stiff and slippery?
I always thought it was a viscous yet slippery substance that attaches to only some materials specifically via a reaction starting.
Like a bubble but with more surface tension needed.
3:07 basically how bubbles work only instead the air inside is just another substance. Or an alternative solution would be that the outer shell of slime (the plasma membrane) is formed when exposed to air over a long amount of time, but also because it’s a semi-solid semi-liquid substance or “gel” it can’t turn completely into a solid hence the semi-permeable harder gel substance that becomes “sticky” because it can’t fully transform to solid but still grapples on to things since it “has solid chunks” inside of it simplest way of explaining the “sticky” effects of the slime while it still being slippery.
war is over
havent finished the video yet but:
personally i think slimes are slippery
but
gel is sticky
0:49 Ha, he said ass
Maybe dead slime is sticky, and live slime is slippery? And the solidifier makes it mimic living slime
I'd say both. Horses can be sticky when made into glue. Also, spiders can make BOTH sticky and non-sticky webs.
i'm halfway through the video and i get the impression slimes are just runaway animate breast implants
sticky gang
its both, the outer layer of their bodies is sticky whilst the inner layer in slippery. or vice versa
Bananas are both sticky and slippery. I see no reason why slimes couldn't be both too.
actually they are bouncy cause they sure do that INTO MY F ING HEAD A LOT
Didn’t expect to watch a video about a terraria slimes anatomy
I'm on team giant unicellular organisms; membranes with internal goop.
Think about eggs. Raw, they are sticky and goopy. Boil them, and they become solid and slippery. It's the same substance, it's just undergone a chemical change. Since we use gel with the Solidifier, we know that it's also the same substance. So I think you're probably on the right track with the membrane theory.
They are flamable. That’s for sure.
When alive slimes are slippery but when dead they're bodies lose form and collapse into gel which without being supplied with sustanance(?) And exposed to the air oxidises into a sticky substance
…you ever cut into a bowl of Jell-O? The layer on top that's dried and exposed to air is pretty slippery, while the stuff underneath and inside the bowl is sticky.
So yes, I'm inclined to say that "both" is not just valid, but arguably correct.
Slimes have a way more advanced anatomy than I thought… Then again, all creatures have some form of biological anatomical structure
Is it sticky?
Is it slimy?
Is it sopping wet?
Ive GYATT to know‼️
Have you considered gel being well both sticky and slimey but in a different way? Kinda like glue where the outside hardens while inside remains well still wet
Perhaps that could also apply to slimes
The outside shell of slimes get slippy as they oxidize, while the insides of slimes remain sticky. If you were to mix a slime up, it would be overwhelmingly sticky, but leave it in one shape for a while and the outside will oxidize, solidifying somewhat and becoming slippy.
this is my new headcanon
What font mod do you use?
Slimes are both sticky and slippery. When you touch a slime you can slide your hand on its surface with no effort but trying to get it off is hard
stlickery
Maybe they’re slippery on the outside and the inner slime is sticky? Like a slime skin if you will
Edit: Ok I watched the rest of the video lol good to know we’re on the same page