From Trash Mob to Raid Boss: A Beginner’s Guide to Legend of Slime Idle RPG War (2024 Update)

Stop me if you’ve heard this dialogue in an RPG before:

• “We’re new adventurers!”
• “We need to gain experience!”
• “Let’s fight slimes, they’re weak!”
• “THIS SLIME IS STRONGER THAN EXPECTED. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING.”

The concept’s been visited so many times (hell, we even have an anime around the whole concept) that an actual weakslime is a surprising subversion. That’s not to say that we can’t have fun with the concept though – in Legend of Slime: Idle RPG War, it’s our time to shine as the titular slime and climb our way to the top of the food chain and prove that slimes are indeed a force to be reckoned with.

Legend of Slime is an idle RPG where you take control of a slime “defender” of the monster forest. In this game, you’ll be tasked to fend off hordes of adventurers, turning the tables on them and transforming them into experience, gold, and gear. To help you in your quest, you’ll find and equip (absorb?) equipment, learn new skills, and find loyal companions. Legend of Slime is available on both the Google Play Store and the App Store.

While Legend of Slime is very simple and intuitive, players new to the idle RPG genre may want a brief walkthrough on how to get stronger. And whether you’re an old hand at this kind of game (in which case feel free to just skim or skip the basic stuff) or just want to a taste of what’s to come, you’ve come to the right place.

In this beginner’s guide to Legend of Slime, we’ll be covering:

• The Basics of Getting Stronger: stats and what they do, equipment (refinement and how to get more of it), companions, skills, your slime collection, mastery points, research, relics, and collection bonuses.
• Slime Economics: finding more resources, maximizing your profits, getting the most out of the gacha, the mines, boss rushes, and more.
• Sourcing Free Stuff: you’ll need every advantage you can get in Legend of Slime, so let’s go over how to score some free gems for your rolls.

If you’re in a rush, no worries – you can just go over the “quick tips” sections for a brief rundown of each section.

The Basics of Getting Stronger

Legend of Slime’s core gameplay loop is simple – fight mobs, earn gold and gems, buy stats, get stronger, fight stronger mobs, rinse, and repeat. This section will walk you through the many, many ways to bolster your slime’s strength.

Quick Tips:

• You can spend gold to improve your stats. The stats in Legend of Slime are ATK, HP, HP Recovery, attack speed (ASPD), Critical Hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, Double and Triple Shot, ADV Attack, and Normal Enemy Damage.
• In Legend of Slime, the best defense is a good offense. Focus on your offensive stats – ATK (most important), crit chance, crit damage, ASPD, double/triple shot. Only raise HP and HP Recovery as needed.
• You can equip items to become stronger. Equipment is mostly acquired from the equipment gacha, though common equipment also drops from regular mobs.
• It is very important to keep rolling on Legend of Slime’s gachas as they gain experience each time you roll. The higher the level of a gacha, the better the stuff you get from it.
• Equipment can be fused to improve its stats. The rarer a piece of equipment, the better its base stats.
• Note that there is an “owned effect” for pieces of gear that ALWAYS applies, even if you haven’t equipped those items!
• Skills are much like equipment – they come from the skill gacha, spending/rolling on the gacha improves the rarity of its drops, you can fuse identical skills to make them stronger, and yes, there are Owned Effects for skills.
• Skills must be assigned to a skill slot for your slime to use them in battle. You unlock more skill slots as you progress through the game. Don’t forget to toggle automatic skill use!
• AOE skills are generally better for mob clearing, while high-impact single-target skills are more suitable for taking out big bosses. Don’t be afraid to switch your skills to suit your combat needs.
• Companions are minions that you bring along with you into battle. As with equipment and skills, you get them from a gacha, fusing identical companions bolsters their stats, rarer companions are better, and there’s both an Equipped and Owned bonus for them.
• Companions belong to one or more types; these are only important for Relic passives.
• Slimes can be leveled up by being fed experience shards.
• Each level grants you one skill point which can be spent on the mastery tree. Mastery tree passives apply to every slime in your collection, thus it’s in your best interest to gain as many slimes and level them up to make more progress in the mastery tree.
• Slimes grant Owned Effects (again, these always apply) and gain a unique skill at certain levels.
• Research is similar to the mastery tree in that it provides passive bonuses to all your slimes. Research requires ore, which you get from the mines.
• Relics provide passive augments, such as skill autocasts, on top of their Owned Effects. This is where Companion types come in.
• Relics can be upgraded by spending forks. You can also get new Relics by spending forks, which you earn from Village Raid mode.
• Traits give you five empty “lines” to fill with random stat boosts. Each line has a letter grade, with F traits providing the least bonus and SSS traits providing the most. Each roll requires you to spend trait points, which you get from the Dwarven King dungeon.
• You can lock traits by tapping on the lock icon to the right of their line. This prevents that line from being rerolled. Locking lines increases the cost of rerolling.
• You can save and load trait sets, effectively allowing you to preserve a core trait set. Saving and loading costs 100 trait points.
• In general, ATK boosts are the best traits to keep. Next are companion ATK boosts and then skill damage. As with stats, the best defense is a good offense.
• Trait lines also have synergies. Assemble enough traits of the same set and you’ll trigger a bonus. The most practical synergy set to run is 4 Hydra, 1 Fiend.
• Don’t forget to check your collection! Assembling sets of items, companions, and skills sometimes triggers a collection bonus, which grants you yet another layer of passive boosts. Open your collection by tapping the blue book in the upper right of the main screen.
• Legend of Slime’s gold drop, ATK, and cooldown reduction blessings become more potent the more you use them. You’ll need to watch an ad (each) to activate these blessings.
• You can also activate a double speed blessing. This one can’t be improved in any way, but does make the game faster by causing it to run at 2x speed.

Stats 101

Your slime has several stats, many of which can be upgraded by paying gold.

• ATK is your slime’s attack power. This dictates not only your normal attack damage but also skill damage.
• HP is your slime’s hit points. Run out of hit points, and you’ll be kicked out of the stage you’re trying to complete.
• HP Recovery determines your HP regeneration, namely how much HP you regenerate per tick. Note that HP does not regenerate in combat!
• ASPD is your attack speed, expressed in-game as attacks per second. An ASPD of 1.00 means 1 attack per second, while 1.1 means 1.1 attacks per second. Don’t expect to get too much value out of this without seriously pumping it up; the fact that this stat goes up by 0.01 per upgrade means you’ll need a lot of gold too.
• Critical Hit Chance is the percent chance that you’ll score a stronger critical hit. Each level increases critical hit rate by 0.1%.
• Critical Hit Damage is the bonus damage multiplier on a critical hit. This starts at 120%, meaning that by default, your crits do 20% more damage. Each level increases this multiplier by 1%.
• Double and Triple Shot are unlockable upgrades that allow you to fire more projectiles per attack. These are unlocked by investing in your ASPD (Double Shot), and then investing in your Double Shot level (Triple Shot). The higher the levels of these stats, the higher the chance of firing a double or triple shot.
• ADV Attack is a separate multiplier to your ATK stat. Investing in this gives great returns, though you’ll be far in the game before you unlock this stat.
• Normal Enemy Damage passively increases your damage against normal (non-boss) mobs.

So Which Stat Should I Raise?

Because of how quickly stat boosts scale in terms of gold cost, you’ll want to spend your gold on the stats that matter most.

Legend of Slime is one of those games where the best defense is a good offense. I would suggest investing in your offensive stats more, particularly ATK and crit chance/damage. Later on, move towards unlocking (and improving) your double and triple shot chances as those are essentially extra critical hits.

Conversely, defensive stats like HP (and to a lesser extent, HP recovery) can take a backseat and should only be upgraded as needed. You technically don’t need HP if you can flatten the boss before it gets to you, yes?

Equipment

Initially, your slime has two equipment slots: one for a weapon, and one for armor, both of which are essentially stat sticks. But oh boy, they are big stat sticks.

Getting more equipment is easy – just keep playing and mobs will sometimes drop gear. A better, faster, and more expensive way of getting equipment is by rolling in the equipment gacha.  We’ll talk more about the intricacies of Legend of Slime’s gacha systems in the “Slime Economics” section, but the long and short of it is this – the more you roll in a gacha, the higher its level becomes, and the better its drop table gets. Naturally, the higher an equipment’s rarity, the better its stats.

Equipment can also be enhanced to provide better stats. To upgrade equipment, you’ll need to sacrifice duplicates of that specific piece of gear. Each enhancement level improves both the equipped and passive effects of a piece of gear.

Wait, passive?

Yup! Just as the game’s core idea is that even a trash mob like a slime can become a god, so too does it provide uses for crappy common items. If you take a closer look at equipment, you’ll notice that it has two stat boosts: an Owned Effect and an Equipped Effect…

Equipped Effects are only active while that piece of gear is equipped. On the other hand, Owned Effects always apply. You read that right. And yes, enhancing a piece of gear does upgrade its Owned Effect. So while it’s always a good choice to equip the rarest and most upgraded weapon and armor you have, don’t neglect upgrading your common stuff, too – every little bit of power helps!

Note that as you level up, you’ll acquire more equipment slots. Whenever you unlock a new slot, don’t forget to slot it with an item; any bonus is better than nothing, after all.

Skills

Skills are powerful abilities that your slime can leverage to turn the tide of battle. Whether it’s summoning allies, throwing money, healing yourself, calling bolts from the sky, or just plain buffing your attack power, there’s a skill for almost any occasion.

Skills generally follow the same route as equipment in that:

• Skills are acquired from the skill gacha. The more you roll in the skill gacha, the better the drop table becomes.
• The rarer a skill, the better it is.
• Skills can be enhanced by fusing identical skills.
• Skills have Owned Effects which boost ATK even if they’re not equipped.

Using skills, on the other hand, is a different affair. To use a skill, it must be assigned to one of your skill slots (you unlock more by progressing through stages) which can be done via the skill menu. Your equipped skills will show up in the main menu…

…where you can tap them to use them. Since Legend of Slime is mostly an AFK game, be sure to tap the auto-use skills button on the leftmost side of the skill panel!

Unlike equipment, skills each have ideal use cases. For example, AOE skills such as Slimy Press are much better for clearing stages and farming gold as you’ll mostly be facing trash mobs, and being able to kill multiple enemies at once makes for more efficient grinding.

On the other hand, hard-hitting single-target skills like Reap are much better for vaporizing lone, powerful enemies like bosses.

As you can freely swap your skills around, don’t be afraid to experiment and equip skills suitable for whatever your current combat needs are.

Companions

Companions are minions that you bring along with you into battle.

Companions operate on much of the same system as equipment and skills:

• Companions are acquired through the companion gacha. The more you roll here, the better the loot table gets.
• Rarer companions have better stats and can thus aid you much better in battle.
• Companions can be enhanced by fusing copies.
• Companions have both an Equipped and Owned Effect.

Where companions differ is that they’re actual entities that assist you in combat.

Unlike equipment, which just straight-up gives you stats, companions have their own ATK and ASPD values, which dictate how much damage they do, and how often they attack. If you’ve ever played one of the Gradius games, think of them as Options – minions that follow you around and attack alongside you. Thus, be mindful of both the attack damage and attack speed of your equipped companions.

Companions also belong to one or more types, which can be seen here:

In the beginning, this won’t matter too much. However, as you progress through the game, you’ll eventually find ways to leverage these types to your advantage. Most players swear by the Bird family as there are relics that both improve their damage and reduce your cooldown.

The Slime Army

While it may not be immediately apparent, your stats are not your level. There are multiple slimes that you can play as in Legend of Slime, and collecting and leveling up each of these slimes is another way to gain power.

First, let’s talk about leveling up slimes. Slimes gain levels by being fed experience shards, which you can only get from the mines. We’ll talk about the mines in greater detail in the “Slime Economics” section, but for now, suffice it to say that it’s a minigame that earns you different currencies for getting stronger.

Each experience shard gives a slime a certain amount of experience points; once it accumulates enough experience, it levels up. While this doesn’t give you any immediate bonus stats, it gives you mastery points and inches you closer to unlocking Owned Effects for that slime.

Each level to any slime grants you one skill point, which can be spent on the mastery tree, a network of passive skills that range from simple ATK boosts to augmenting your companions and adding extra procs to your attacks and skills. The most important thing to note about the mastery tree is that it applies to all slimes, not just whoever got the level. This means that it’s very important to collect and level up as many slimes as possible to get those sweet, sweet skill points.

Next, let’s talk about Owned Effects and unique skills.

In the image above, you can see that Aku has Owned Effects once it reaches levels 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, and star (essentially max level ascension). You’ll also note that Aku unlocks its unique Water Explosion skill at level 35, which is basically a free skill. Note that while Owned Effects always apply, a slime’s unique skill will always be exclusive to itself, meaning that only Aku can use Water Explosion.

Lastly, note that if you’re going full F2P, you’ll be limited in the number of slimes you can unlock; all SS slimes are paid, while those at or below S-rank can be acquired either via tasks or events. For beginners, keep your eyes on Serpine and Astrie: Serpine is unlocked by logging in for 7 days, while Astrie can be bought for 9900 gems, which you can reliably earn via the Boss Rush dungeon.

Research

Slimes have low INT? Please. Why would they have research if they weren’t smart?

Research in Legend of Slime is yet another layer of passive bonuses. Much like the mastery trees that we just discussed, the research tree provides innate boosts to every slime in your collection. Unlike the mastery tree, which uses skill points, research projects require you to sacrifice ore, which you get from the mines. Again, we’ll discuss the mines in greater depth later.

Note that research not only provides passive bonuses to your slimes but also contains nodes that make life easier for the mines minigame.

If you’re low on time, you can either watch an ad or pay gems to rush a research project. Gems are very important, so I strongly suggest just watching the ad. Note that this doesn’t skip the entire timer, instead shaving away roughly 30 minutes.

Relics

Once you clear stage 7-5, you can mount an offensive on human villages to get…forks. Yes, forks. Forks are important because they can be traded to a goblin merchant for powerful relics.

Relics are essentially another kind of equipment that not only carry passive stat bonuses but also boost your skills, slimes, and companions in other ways. For example, take a look at this relic:

Yup, you’re reading this right: the Pottery Relic lets you auto-cast skills even if they’re not equipped, so long as you meet the requirement. As you progress through the game, you’ll find even crazier relics with more powerful effects but strict requirements (remember what I said about people swearing by the Bird family of companions?).

Lastly, you can also spend forks to enhance your current relics instead of digging for new ones.

Traits

Traits add yet another layer of passive boosts to your slimes. While traits provide innate benefits to your army, they’re more complicated than either mastery or research buffs.

Traits give you five “lines” to fill with passive effects that boost ATK, ASPD, multishot chance, HP, companion damage, skill damage, gold obtained, crit chance, and crit damage. Each line has both a letter grade (F as the lowest, SSS as the highest) as well as one of five synergy dice.

To start rolling for traits, you’ll need to progress through the story until you can challenge the Dwarven King dungeon. Once you’ve unlocked him, go beat him up a few times – he’ll drop some trait points each time you clear the dungeon.

Now, let’s roll for some traits. To start rolling for traits, tap on this button here:

Pressing that button will roll for traits on all unlocked slots. If it’s your first time rolling for traits, don’t worry about that yet – just let the dice roll. But set your expectations, as you’ll very likely get crappy traits.

Next is locking. As I mentioned earlier, hitting the “Change” button rolls all unlocked slots. If, however, you get a trait that you want to keep, you can lock that line by tapping on its lock icon on the right, like so:

Locking lines increases the cost of rerolling the other lines by 5 trait points per locked line. Still, this allows you to preserve traits that you want to keep, so get in the habit of immediately locking key traits.

You can also save and load trait sets, effectively allowing you to preserve certain lines. This is done by tapping on this icon:

Note that saving and loading trait sets will set you back 100 trait points.

As with building your stats, it’s always better to focus on offensive traits than defensive ones. In particular:

• SSS ATK traits are instant locks, especially if they roll Hydra synergy. ATK is used for both normal attacks and skill calculations. As you progress through the game and unlock more features like the Slime Legion, you’ll find that raw ATK boosts are more useful than other bonuses.
• Companion ATK boosts are okay to keep. Not as universally useful as ATK boosts, but remember that you bring up to 5 companions in battle!
• Skill damage is the lowest priority. Yes, skills are nice, but as you progress through Legend of Slime, raw skill damage will matter less and less – and again, ATK buffs already have this covered.

Because it’s possible to get the same bonus, you can eventually settle for a trait set that has nothing but ATK boosts.

We’re not done yet. Next up are synergies. You may have noticed that there are differently colored dice to the left of each line. The color of each line’s die denotes which set it belongs to, and having enough traits of a certain color triggers incredibly potent passive buffs, which can be seen by tapping on the info panel beside the “Synergy Effect” text.

In the image above, you can see that I have a level 1 Hydra synergy and a level 3 Fiend synergy, thus giving me 10% ATK and 1600% crit damage on top of what traits already provide. In general, however, the best (and simplest) synergy that most players use is 4 Hydra and 1 Fiend for a great 30% ATK/400% crit damage boost. So not only do you have to hope to roll an SS or SSS ATK trait on every line, but also pray to the gods that you get Hydra or Fiend on those lines.

…good luck on your rolls. You’ll need it.

Collection Bonuses

Legend of Slime is all about harnessing passive bonuses. And while Owned Effects are already very nice to have, there’s a separate collection bonus for having certain equipment, skills, and companions.

There’s not much you can do to complete collections apart from pulling on gachas and upgrading your stuff, but be sure to drop in from time to time to nab the passive bonuses you’ve unlocked.

You can see the collection menu by tapping on the blue book at the upper right of the screen:

Blessings

Blessings are incredible but short-lived buffs that grant an immense power spike, allowing you to take on bosses and thrash normal mobs like no one’s business. These buffs can be activated by tapping the scroll on the upper leftmost corner of the screen:

There are three buffs up for grabs here:

• The Blessing of Plutus increases the amount of gold you earn.
• The Blessing of Hercules gives you a huge ATK buff.
• The Blessing of Hermes gives you bonus cooldown reduction.

Each of these buffs can be activated for 20 minutes by watching an ad. While just activating the buff is already a huge boon, note that each of these buffs also gains experience the more you activate it – the number of times you’ve activated a buff is represented as an exp bar below it, and the higher the buff’s level, the more potent it becomes. The long and short of it is always keep these buffs active.

There’s one more buff that can be activated, which I’ll include here for the sake of brevity. This is the double speed buff, which can be activated by tapping this button:

This doesn’t provide any direct combat buffs, but it does cause the game to run at double speed while it’s active, allowing you to farm faster and more efficiently. However, unlike the other blessings, this one can’t be upgraded in any way.

Slime Economics

I wasn’t kidding when I said there were a ton of ways to get stronger. Now that you’re hopefully passingly familiar with those methods, let’s now turn our focus to the economic side of things – how to earn the different currency you need to make yourself stronger, as well as how to maximize said currency.

Quick Tips:

• The single most important thing to do in Legend of Slime is to pull on the gacha. Use all your “free” (paid for by an ad) daily pulls as you’ll not only get free experience for gacha banners and potentially score some sweet loot, but you’ll also increase the number of items you pull with each ad pull.
• Daily quests provide a hefty sum of gems every day. Be sure to complete not only the base quests but also the bonus ones that require you to watch an ad – you’ll want every gacha pull you can get!
• Quests provide one-time infusions of gems for achieving certain goals. Your current quest is always visible in the upper right corner of the screen.
• Dungeons provide opportunities to earn large amounts of specific currencies. Boss Rush gives you gems, Gold Rush nets you gold, Village Raid nabs you forks, and Dwarven King scores you some trait points. You’ll unlock new modes as you play through the game.
• The higher the difficulty of a dungeon, the more rewards it shells out.
• You need keys to enter a dungeon. Keys replenish every day. You can also watch ads (up to twice per dungeon, per day) instead of using a key.
• Legend of Slime will continue to farm for you even if you’re not playing the game. Up to 12 hours of AFK rewards can be stored at once, and you can choose to double your gains by watching an ad.
• Note that the AFK reward rate is based on the last stage you completed. Always push as far as you can whenever you actively play the game.
• The mines let you dig up experience shards, ore for research, gems, and more. The deeper you go, the better the stuff you’ll find.
• Progress in the mine is made by using pickaxes, drills, or bombs. Pickaxes regenerate on their own over time.
• You can also claim prizes for breaking enough tiles and going below certain depths. The prizes for breaking tiles reset every so often.

Gaming the Gacha

If you’re going to take away just a single thing from this beginner’s guide, let it be this: pull on the dang gacha as often as you can!

Each time you pull on a banner, it gains experience points equal to the number of pulls you made. Once it reaches maximum experience, it levels up, improving the drop table of that banner and allowing higher-rarity items to drop. I wasn’t kidding when I said earlier that pulling on a gacha banner improves its drop rate. For reference, a level 1 banner has a 100% chance to drop a common (white) item, while a level 2 banner has a 75% chance to drop a common item and a 25% chance to drop an uncommon (green) item – meaning that you can’t just luck out and nab an exotic item on your first few pulls.

On the other hand, the chance for lower-rarity items does significantly decrease the higher a banner’s level; at level 10, which is the maximum, there’s only a 9.21% chance for a common to drop and a 9.5% chance for an uncommon drop, while there’s a 70% chance for an epic (purple) drop. A good stopping point for each banner is at least level 6 as that’s when legendary (orange) items start to drop – though naturally, feel free to push higher to increase the chance of a good drop.

You can see a banner’s level and experience bar here…

…and you can tap on the info (“I”) button to see the odds for each level. For reference, the highest banner level is 10.

Oh, but there’s more!

You can also pull on each banner thrice per day by watching an ad, and each time you pull on a gacha banner by watching an ad, you increase the number of items you get per ad-fueled pull. Note that this is per banner, meaning you have to sit through three ads for each banner. Still, the free pulls by themselves are already well worth the time, and the more you watch ads, the more effective your free pulls become!

Dailies

As with almost all mobile RPGs, Legend of Slime features daily quests. These can be accessed here:

Tap on the icon to bring up your list of daily to-dos. I strongly urge you to complete these as well as complete the bonus quests by watching ads as daily quests give you a respectable sum of gems for pulling on the gacha banners!

Quests

Quests are yet another RPG mainstay. In Legend of Slime, quests provide quick and easy infusions of gems for achieving certain tasks. Not particularly difficult tasks, mind.

Pay attention to your quest requirements (they’re always in the upper right of the screen) and complete them to earn some extra gems for your gacha pulls. You’ll need them.

Dungeon Dives

Farming dungeons is a great way to amass huge amounts of specific resources, such as gems (yes, renewable gems), gold, forks, and more!

As you progress through Legend of Slime’s stages, you’ll gain access to different dungeons. As this guide is for beginners, let’s talk about the first three dungeons you’ll unlock – the Boss Rush, the Gold Rush, and the Village Raid.

• The Boss Rush pits you against 10 powerful foes (hence the name). Defeating all these foes within the time limit nets you a generous amount of gems. No, you didn’t misread that – this is a renewable, infinite source of gems for your gacha pulls.
• The Gold Rush dungeon has a single sturdy but passive wagon laden with gold, and your task is to smash it before time runs out. While it doesn’t fight back, the wagon is very tough and will run away if time expires. Luckily, you get prizes just for damaging it, though of course destroying the wagon will always yield the most resources.
• The Village Raid is where we can no longer plausibly deny the self-defense plot of the game you can earn forks by attacking a village. Let’s…just assume the humans did something nasty. In Village Raid, your task is to destroy 5 houses before time runs out. As with Gold Rush, you get prizes just for doing damage, but breaking the houses nets you the most forks. These forks are used for buying and upgrading relics.
• Fighting the Dwarven King scores you those super-important trait points. Unlike the other dungeons, there’s no set reward nor difficulty setting – the more health bars you can shave off the king, the bigger your reward!

There’s a catch here though – you can only farm dungeons a limited number of times per day. Each dungeon attempt requires a key, though thankfully, keys aren’t shared between dungeons meaning you can run every dungeon you have a key for. Keys replenish at the rate of 2 per 24 hours, though you can watch up to 2 ads to gain 2 extra runs for each dungeon. Always make sure to do all your dungeon runs, including the ad-fueled ones.

Dungeons also come in increasing difficulties, with new difficulties appearing after clearing the previous difficulty for the first time. The higher a dungeon’s difficulty, the more prizes you get, so always aim high!

As you progress through the game, you’ll eventually unlock new dungeons such as Dwarven King, Slime Legion, and Secret Undead Room, which award different, essential resources.

AFK Gains

An idle game wouldn’t be idle if it didn’t farm resources for you automatically.

Your slime will continue “defending” the forest even when you’re not actively playing. This isn’t just for display – you’ll accumulate gold and equipment depending on how long you’ve been AFK (yes, even if the game is closed). Your AFK reward rate is dictated by the last stage you’ve cleared, so to maximize these gains, always try to push as far in the main campaign as you can whenever you play Legend of Slime.

Legend of Slime will accumulate up to 12 hours’ worth of AFK gains – any more than that simply vanishes into the digital void. Note that you always have the opportunity to boost your AFK gains when claiming them, which I always suggest doing.

To collect your AFK gains, tap on the treasure chest at the upper left of the main screen.

The Mines

All the humans you vanquish need to have some use, and that’s what the mines are for.

As mentioned earlier, the mines are essentially a minigame where you dig for treasure. As you’ll recall, you can earn experience shards for your slimes here as well as ores for conducting research.

In the mine minigame, you’ll need to dig to unearth useful items, and the deeper you go, the better the treasures you’ll find, such as experience shards, ore for research, and gems for pulls. There are three ways to dig: the pickaxe, dynamite, or a drill.

• Pickaxes are the most basic way to dig down. A single pickaxe tap will destroy a dirt tile, while two taps will break stone. Note that pickaxes can only be used on illuminated tiles, meaning that you’ll often have to dig 1×1 shafts to get what you want with pickaxes. While slow, pickaxes regenerate over time.

• Bombs destroy all tiles in a 2-tile AOE around themselves, even if the rest of the AOE isn’t visible yet. A single bomb blast will blow through both dirt and stone with equal ease, granting you any treasures those tiles may have. Unlike pickaxes, bombs can be planted even on dark tiles. It’s a good idea to save bombs for when you’re facing a solid wall of rock or if there’s a large amount of goodies that you can collect with a single blast. Note that you can watch up to 2 ads per day to gain 2 bombs.

• Drills are your best choice when it comes to digging deep as quickly as possible or if you want to skip through useless, treasure-less layers. These machines will cut through rock and stone in an inverse-T shape, rapidly granting you access to new depths. As with bombs, you can watch up to 2 ads per day to gain 2 drills.

To go deeper into the mine, you’ll need to destroy at least one tile below the yellow line at the bottom of the screen. This yellow line also shows you your current depth; at certain depth thresholds, you can claim an extra prize. In the image below, I’m currently 145 meters below ground and can claim a Summon Box once I hit 200 meters.

Finally, you can claim extra awards for breaking tiles. This can be seen above:

In this case, I can redeem a Gold Rush key after breaking 11 more tiles, whether via pickaxe, bomb, or drill. Note that these rewards reset every so often – the timer can be seen below the prize panel – so don’t forget to nab those extra goodies!

Sourcing Free Stuff

Yes, earning free stuff is well and good. But Legend of Slime also has a treasure trove of free items for determined slimes – all you need to know is where to look. That, or have someone like me tell you where to get said free stuff.

Quick Tips:

• Flying ad boxes will occasionally appear in the upper part of the screen. Tap them to see what they offer; often, they’ll give you gems, but sometimes they’ll offer buffs as well.
• You can spin the roulette up to five times per day. Be sure to do this as you’ll always get either gems or dungeon keys, both of which are very important.
• Claim your battle pass freebies; even the free track offers you gems and random item boxes.

Flying Ads

Flying ad boxes require a keen eye to catch, but can provide you with some nice loot if you see them in time.

These boxes will spawn while your slime fights in the upper part of the screen. Tap on a flying ad box to reveal its contents – often, it’ll offer you gems, but sometimes it also has a buff – then decide whether its prize is worth watching an ad or not. If you miss a box, don’t be disappointed as they’re relatively common.

The Roulette

The left part of the main screen has a roulette icon. Tap on it to bring up the roulette menu, which is chock-full of important freebies.

You can spin the roulette up to five times per day. The first spin is free, while the rest require you to watch an ad. Each spin is extremely valuable as you’ll always get either gems or dungeon keys, both of which you’ll always need.

The Battle Pass

As with most mobile games, Legend of Slime has a battle pass which comes in both paid and free versions. To access the current battle pass, tap on the timed banner above the roulette.

Be sure to check this every so often and submit completed quests – even the free track offers decent rewards.

Shop Freebies

It’s not much, but the shop does offer you a free 200 gems every day.

At least you don’t need to watch an ad to claim these gems.

Events

Finally, always participate in events. You can access events in Legend of Slime by tapping this button:

As a new player, there are a ton of free things you can claim from here:

• Aku’s Growth Journal nets you experience shards, ores, and digging tools for the mine. As Aku is your only slime as a new player, you’ll inevitably complete these quests.
• The Slime Guide rewards you for reaching new stages. Note that some of the prizes are locked behind a premium pass.
• The Slime Diary is a month-long event for newbies that gives you new quests every day for 7 days. Completing this one is very important as it gives not only a staggering amount of gems but also scores you some Mega Summon Boxes and an Orange Shining Box (meaning guaranteed legendaries) for completing enough quests!

These aren’t the only events that Legend of Slime has, so be sure to check this menu often for more loot.

Aim High, Little Slime!

The path to becoming a top-level threat is no doubt a daunting task for a simple slime. But the path to power is straightforward, if long. All you need to do is put one foot-analog forward at a time, and eventually, you’ll find yourself at the end.

That ends my beginner’s guide to Legend of Slime, and hopefully, you now have a better grasp of the basics of the game, thus setting the stage for your slime’s growth into tomorrow’s terror. If you have any comments or corrections to make or want to share some of your personal tricks (especially for new players), let us hear your voice in the comments below!