The Slime Pup was one of the easiest Raytraxians to obtain. There were many different colors you could’ve obtained, some could only obtained through events. They Were removed and will be replaced by Shamrock in a future update.
Description
A small, dog sized creature that is translucent, with a skull like mask on the front. They can vary in colours. These creatures are the first of the neutral species that have been created, and have been noted to follow humans and infected around, expecting food and pets. They're often childlike, but on rare occasions the aggressive biters are seen to grow in size, and eventually form into a Slime Hound. Slime Pups are often extremely curious, but lazy. They sleep around a lot, and will even sleep on your back if you let them. If one is bothering you, just give it a treat or something.
Appearance
Unlike most Raytraxians, the Slime Pup comes in several color variants, such as cyan, lime, pink, purple and aqua. You can get rare variations outside of events, (such as gold and diamond), and are guaranteed to become a set color during events (such as white during blackout, or red during a power outage). It shares these color schemes with the Slime Hound and Slime Dragon.
Rainbow Slime Pup
If a Slime Pup eats a Strange Crystal, it will turn into a Rainbow Slime Pup. Such pups will leave behind a trail and turn into a variety of colors like a rainbow, as well as having a sparkle effect. When the Rainbow Slime Pup does the smug animation, it starts to play Transit by Fishcracks. It is one of the only Gootraxians able to produce music, the other being Jammer and Nightshade (VIP only). Feeding a pup a strange crystal gives you a new bat skin.
Golden/Diamond Slime Pup
On extremely rare occasions during non-events, a player will transform into a Golden or Diamond Slime Pup, which will have a sparkle effect and a color trail similar to a rainbow pup, with the respective color. However, Diamond Slime Pups periodically emit credits which can shoot out in large numbers when hit or killed. The chances of becoming one are 0.4% (1 in 250) for Golden and 0.2% (1 in 500) for Diamond respectively. Becoming a Golden Slime Pup will reward you with a new bat skin. Killing a Golden Slime Pup will reward you with, a golden weapon, a badge and another new bat skin.
Due to the rarity of such pups, it is not uncommon to see a huge crowd of survivors chasing down a single Golden or Diamond Slime Pup. To balance this, the two variants receive a large health buff, each variants will receive a large health pool of 600 HP (Golden variant) and 900 HP (Diamond variant) but with a cost of no health regeneration.
White/Ghost Slime Pup
The Ghost variant of a Slime Pup is only available via the Blackout event, and is unique in that it gives off white particles. It's face is removed from the mask, and using the "sleep" tool will make the Slime Pup float. These are purely cosmetic.
Red Slime Pup
The Red variant of a Slime Pup is only available via the Power Outage event, special in that it has crystals on its back, albeit purely cosmetic.
Abilities
The Slime Pup has a unique moveset with five abilities. These abilities are:
Bite
The Slime Pup can bite players or even their same species (other pups and Gootraxians), it also has a 10 second cooldown. It deals 11 damage to the Humans and 5.5 damage to the Gootraxians. If the Gootraxian/Human is too low and gets bit, they die.
Sleep
The Slime Pup rests and becomes immobile.
Steal
The Slime Pup can steal items from Humans, such as Bats, Knives and Plushies. This comes at the cost of having a longer jump cooldown. After stealing an item, the pup becomes tired and cannot steal another item again until the cooldown wears off.
Eat
The Slime Pup can eat food out of a Human's hand. It regains a bit of health after doing so. They don't regenerate health if they eat a lemon, which do damage to them instead of healing them, or if they are a Gold Pup or Diamond Pup.
Ride
NOTE: Ride was removed in V3.1R due to a glitch
The Slime Pup can ride on the backs of both humans and Gootraxians. When clicking on a player with the tool equipped, the player you clicked will have the text "You felt something heavy climbing on your back" appear on the bottom of the player’s screen. If both the player and the pup stand still, the Slime Pup will get on their back, and the player can carry them around. However, the Slime Pup still can be damaged by weapons and die to the laser field in this state. Players with Slime Pups on their backs will receive a small buff to their passive healing.
Invisibility (Passive, ghost variant only)
Upon being hit by a weapon, you will temporarily go invisible, which can be used as a quick retreat from your attacker. Be wary when you run, because the particles caused by running will still be seen. This effect does not stack.
Note that you do not turn entirely invisible and can be seen vaguely.
Trivia
- The Slime Pup is one of the only Raytraxians that have the blinking animation, the others being Sprinklekit, Mochi, Carneline, Kaiju and Ghost Fox.
- If a Slime Pup is fed a lemon, it will damage them. If the Slime Pup’s health is low enough (around 5-10 HP left), it will play a fart sound, then pup will disintegrate into parts before dying. If a Slime Pup's health is low and it gets on a human's back after eating a lemon, it will play a fart sound and both the pup and the human will disintegrate into parts and die.
- This may be relevant on how dogs cannot eat lemons due to the essential oils and a chemical compound that is toxic to them. Go to this page if you want more information.
- It also may be a reference to a meme where a character would eat a lemon and then disintegrate.
- Before V3D, Slime Pups didn't have a traditional method of attack.
- The Ghost variant of the Slime Pup floats slightly up and down in the air while sleeping.
- If a Pup is wearing a cone or bucket, It gets +15 HP, [95 HP in total] allowing it to take 3-4 hits, depending on what weapon you're using.
- Slime Pups were designed by the concept artist, Yuka.
- The Slime Pup is one of the few Raytraxians that can outright kill a survivor instead of infecting them. The others being Hebi, Nightcrawler, and Buck.
- Pups used to have an exclusive daycare-like 'safe zone' just for them to the left of the cave entrance. This has since been removed due to rare variants camping. It has been added back into experimental and is now located at the far left of the cave. It is still not back in the main game, however.
- The Slime Pup was one of the first ever Raytraxians implemented.
- Pups cannot steal from Humans with a Hazmat Suit, nor can they steal any heavy-set weaponry i.e. Katana, Sledge Hammer, Pipe, Axe, or Scythe.
- Pups cannot climb up any ladders or shelves without any glitch mechanism.
- They can, however, use the "ride" ability on to a player to ride their back, then be carried up the ladder/shelf.
- If a Slime Pup attempts to use the ride tool on a Hebi, if they both stand still, the Slime Pup will climb on their back. However, instead of riding the Hebi, the Hebi will get angry and grab them off their back, slamming them into the ground. This plays either a fart or Taco Bell sound effect, and damages the Slime Pup.
- Slime Pups only have one sitting animation.
- During the April Fools update, when a Slime Pup used the "Sleep" tool, it would play a snoring audio which can be found here.
- There is an easter egg where riding on a Slime Hound with the same color will make hearts appear.
- When you try to use the !rejoin command as a Golden/Diamond Slime Pup, a message will appear saying "[SERVER]: You cannot escape."
- Like the Slime Hound, you can become any valid Slime Pup color using the ":tf me slimepup;color=[color]" command.
- This works with gold and diamond Slime Pups, even if you haven't gotten either rare variant.
- There was a glitch where standing behind glass panes as a slime creature caused most of the body to disappear leaving only the mask, ears, tail and neck fluff visible.
- According to Yuka, the Slime Pups were originally going to be the lime green color only.
- The Slime Pups were based off of Yuka's childhood dog.
- The developers have confirmed that there will be no more Slime Pup variants.
- In the 2022 Halloween update, the ghost Slime Pup became maroon-colored, resembling blood. The same goes for the other slime creatures.
- Slime Pups are weak to specific weapons, those being the fire axe or sledge hammer. This is because they hit downward rather than sideways, increasing their chances of successfully hitting a Slime Pup due to their short hitbox. Both weapons cannot be grabbed, either, and force the Slime Pup into a stun.
- If a Slime Pup rides on another player's back, the player's passive HP regeneration will be increased.
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