King Slime (2024)

King Slime

Map Icon

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	BossSlime
Environment	Forest Slime Rain
AI Type	King Slime AI
Damage	40/64/96
Max Life	2000/2800/3570
Defense	10
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Drops

Coins	1 GC2 GC50 SC

• Item (Quantity)Rate

• Solidifier

  100% (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

• Slimy Saddle(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)

  25%

• One of the following 3 items will be dropped^[1]

• Ninja Hood

  33.33%

• Ninja Shirt

  33.33%

• Ninja Pants

  33.33%

• One of the following 2 items will be dropped^[1]

• Slime Hook(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)

  33.33%

• Slime Gun(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)

  66.67%

• Lesser Healing Potion (5–15)

  100%

• King Slime Mask

  14.29%

• King Slime Trophy

  10%

• Treasure Bag(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)(King Slime)

  100%

• Royal Gel(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

  100%

• King Slime Mask

  14.29%

• Slimy Saddle(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)

  50%

• Two of the following three items will be dropped

• Ninja Hood

  67%

• Ninja Shirt

  67%

• Ninja Pants

  67%

• Slime Gun(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)

  50%

• Slime Hook(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)

  50%

• Solidifier

  100%

• Gold Coin (1)

  100%

• Royal Delight(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

  25%

• King Slime Relic(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

  100%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

• Internal NPC ID: 50

King Slime is a pre-Hardmode boss. His appearance is that of a massive Blue Slime wearing a jeweled golden crown and having what appears to be a ninja inside of him. He lacks the crown on the Old-gen console and versions of the game. As King Slime takes damage, he spawns additional ordinary Blue Slimes (and Spiked Slimes(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) in Expert and Master Mode) and appears to shrink in size.

King Slime spawns under one of the following conditions:

• A player uses a Slime Crown.
• (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 150 slimes are defeated during the Slime Rain event (or 75 if King Slime was already slain in the world at least once).
• Rarely in the outer lateral sixths of the map, during daytime, and only on grass.

Fighting King Slime is not required for game progression, but his defeat may reward the player with useful items. Defeating him for the first time also causes the Nerdy Slime(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) town pet to spawn from the boss.

While King Slime is alive, the music Boss 1 will play. When Otherworldly music (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) is enabled, the track Boss 1 (Otherworldly) will play instead.

Spawning

Manual

King Slime can be summoned manually anywhere and at any time using the Slime Crown.

Random

King Slime has a very rare chance of spawning naturally if the following conditions are met:

• The player is located in one of the outer lateral sixths of the map (the far left or far right).
• The depth at its potential spawn point is above zero.
• It is daytime.
• There must be standard, green grass at its potential spawn point (off-screen; see NPC spawning)

Slime Rain

If 150 slimes are killed by players, traps, and/or summoned minions during the Slime Rain event, King Slime spawns. Slimes killed by lava do not count towards the total unless the player deals damage to them first.^[2] Defeating King Slime ends the event shortly after. If all players die, King Slime despawns, and the event continues for some time before ending on its own (between 9 and 15 in-game hours). If King Slime has already been defeated in a world, it only takes 75 slime kills to spawn him. If King Slime is summoned manually with the Slime Crown and then subsequently killed, while the Slime Rain is active, the event ends in the same way as if the player killed the King Slime that naturally spawns at the end of the event. This can be quite helpful for powerful players who want to get the Slime Rain event over with as quickly as possible.

Don't dig up

In Don't dig up worlds, killing a slime has a 1/200 (0.5%) chance of spawning King Slime, provided the boss has not yet been defeated, and at least one player has more than 140 maximum health and more than 8 defense.^[3] Only the death of certain types of slime can trigger this: Blue Slime, Green Slime, Pinky, Baby Slime, Black Slime, Purple Slime, Red Slime, Yellow Slime, and Jungle Slime. Slimes killed without the player dealing damage to them will not spawn King Slime.

Notes

• Although being a large and resilient enemy, in addition to boss music playing during the fight, a map icon, and a boss health bar appearing, King Slime is often regarded as a "side-boss" or "mini-boss" (though there is no official word on this from the developers). It differs from traditional bosses in the following ways:
  • (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) King Slime can be encountered regardless of the current level of game advancement.
  • Besides Lepus(3DS version), he is the only boss who takes damage from lava.
  • (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) King Slime does not travel or fire through blocks, which creates shielding or trapping possibilities that do not exist when battling most other bosses (though traveling too far from a trapped King Slime can cause him to teleport out).
  • He can spawn at random in a certain area of the world, which is similar to the spawning of regular enemies, rather than bosses.
• On the Desktop version, Console version, and Mobile version, King Slime will teleport upon the player if he is unable to reach them. This can be performed from any distance and prevents easily trapping the boss within a small area.
• King Slime's highest jump can clear a 17-block-high wall.
• In Expert Mode(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), King Slime summons Spiked Slimes along with normal slimes as he loses health. These are not affected by the Royal Gel (unlike the other, normal Blue Slimes spawned).
• King Slime can spawn inside of blocks, making him unable to move unless through teleporting.
• It is possible for King Slime to teleport to the player after they died fighting in the outer layers of the world.
• In the For the worthy and Get fixed boi worlds, King Slime's body is twice as large in diameter.

Achievements

Tips

• Piercing weapons can not only damage King Slime, but also kill the additional slimes it spawns.
• The Blue Slimes that are spawned during the fight can drop Hearts and Stars, which respectively restore 20 health and 100 mana.
• Due to the high number of Blue Slimes spawned during the fight, summoning King Slime while in specific areas can be a quick, easy way to farm for specific drops. Examples include (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Biome Keys or Biome Key Molds(Old-gen console and 3DS versions), Pirate Maps, Halloween and Christmas drops, or the Cascade(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), Hel-Fire(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), Amarok(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), Yelets(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), and Kraken(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) yoyos. Before 1.4.0.1(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), they can also drop souls.
• King Slime himself does not drop any Gel, but the Blue Slimes he spawns do. This makes fighting him a good way to farm Gel, e.g. for Flamethrower ammo or Asphalt Blocks.
• Killing King Slime on Expert Mode and selling all drops gives 10 GC on average.
• When King Slime teleports, he can become stuck inside the blocks around him, preventing his movement for a while.

Trivia

• Assuming that the player is 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) in terms of height, King Slime would be about 11′ (3.35 m) tall and 11′ 8½″ (3.57 m) wide.
• The source of the Ninja armor appears to be from the ninja inside King Slime.
• According to Redigit, the trapped ninja is the Guide's brother,^[4] and he was consumed by King Slime as a result of losing the fight against the boss.^[5] This statement was most likely a joke^[6] and is not considered official lore.^[7]
• In the Old-gen console and versions, he is the only boss to drop a banner.
• The trophy dropped by King Slime seems to be a Ninjatō covered in slime, a common weapon that ninjas are usually shown to carry. This may be because King Slime drops the Ninja armor.
• The images for the ninja inside King Slime and the crown are stored in separate image files. King Slime's sprite without them looks similar to a massive Blue Slime.
  • The sprite from 1.1 did not have the crown or the ninja.
  • Both sprites can be found as Ninja and Extra_39 internally.
• Despite sometimes being considered the easiest boss in the game, he does the second highest damage of any pre-Hardmode boss, only beaten by the Wall of Flesh in Classic Mode or Skeletron in Expert Mode(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions).
• King Slime is one of the only bosses capable of spawning randomly even after he has already been defeated in the world, the other being Deerclops.
• King Slime appears in the video game Core Keeper as part of a crossover.
• When teleporting, King Slime drops his current crown and seemingly generates a new one upon completing the teleport.
• The Spiked Slime, Pirate's Curse(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), Jungle Mimic(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions), and Golden Slime(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) are the only non-invincible enemies in the game without a Bestiary entry, and King Slime is the only boss whose summoned enemies do not have one.

• The Bestiary entry for King Slime: "Slimes normally aren't intelligent, but occasionally they merge together to become a powerful force to swallow all things."

Gallery

• 

  King Slime without the ninja inside or a crown.

• 

  King Slime's crown.

• 

  The ninja seen inside King Slime.

See also

• Queen Slime, the similar Hardmode boss
• King Slime at the Core Keeper Wiki

History

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Now takes up more enemy slots, reducing or outright eliminating additional enemy spawns during his fight (not including Blue Slime minions). This does not impact Slime Rain spawns.
  • Defeating King Slime for the first time will now spawn the Nerdy Slime.

• Desktop 1.4.0.5: Fixed an NPC smoothing issue.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Added the King Slime Relic, a trophy-like Master Mode-only drop.
  • Added the Royal Delight, a pet-summoning Master Mode-only drop.
  • Fixed an exploit where King Slime's minions would drop Soul of Light or Soul of Night when underground.
  • King Slime is now somewhat harder to abuse with Ropes.
  • Ninja sprite updated. Old sprite:

• Desktop 1.3.5: Ninja sprite updated. Old sprite:

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • A sprite for a crown added. Without the crown, the sprite was .
  • New drops added.
  • Now has an Expert Mode AI.
  • Now teleports whenever stuck and when not in range of the player for over 5 seconds.
  • Can now spawn during the Slime Rain event.
  • Now drops the Solidifier.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Now drops Slime Hook, Slime Gun, and Slimy Saddle

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Now drops Slime Banner.

• Desktop 1.1: Can now be spawned using Slime Crown.

• Desktop 1.0.5:
  • Now floats in liquids and doesn't make a splash sound when hitting water.
  • Only one King Slime may spawn at a time now.

• Desktop 1.0.4: Introduced.

• Console-Release: Introduced.

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.

References

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