Slime Hound

Slime Hounds are essentially the adult form of Slime Pups and look almost identical but stand bipedally instead of quadrupedally, and they have a constantly angered expression.

Much like their juvenile form, they can also come in a variety of colors, and have Golden and Diamond variants.

Abilities

Ghost Slime Hounds are able to phase through players at any time and turn invisible for 5 seconds when hit.

Golden Slime Hounds have 600 HP<ref name=":0">update log HP https://discord.com/channels/786788486887768135/821381992779218955/856567609138741258</ref>. Upon death, Golden Hounds will drop 1.5k credits<ref name=":1">update log credits, food heal, and scale system https://discord.com/channels/786788486887768135/821381992779218955/891892705406382091</ref> to whoever landed the killing blow and turn the weapon that it was killed with into a golden version of it. If the Golden leaves the game, a golden grave will spawn and function similar to them in order to get the rewards, although the Golden itself won't be able to see or interact with it when they rejoin. <ref>gravestone https://discord.com/channels/786788486887768135/821381992779218955/920677851445985330</ref>

Diamond Slime Hounds have 900 HP<ref name=":0" />. When hit, they drop credits that scale to the amount of damage dealt to them. Upon death or leave, they will drop a Diamond Crate. They also drop 2,000 credits to whoever landed the killing blow as well as sending out a flurry of more credits that other players can pick up. The amount of credits showered out scales to the amount of players in the server and each ticket worth 20 - 25 credits.<ref name=":1" />

The Credit Scaling System is as follows:

if <math>Player Amount</math> is less than 17 then the credit amount would

instantly be 35, else it will be

<math>(Player Amount * 3)</math> instead.

These rare variants are unable to die by running into the forcefield on the spawn area, getting crushed by the gates, or reset character. They cannot regen their HP naturally overtime<ref name=":02" />, however, they can still grab or attack to gain some of their HP back.

Acquirement

There are 3 common Slime variants and 3 rare variants.

In private servers, they can all be obtained by using the command :tf me Slimepup;color=[color]

Normal/Event

Normal Slime Hounds can be obtained by either losing all of your HP to a pink puddle. They also have unique Power Outage and Blackout variants that can be obtained during their respective events.

Alternatively, depending on the variant, infection by another Slime Hound will turn them into the color or variant of the infector, except rare variants, which will be of random color.

Golden and Diamond

Golden Slime Hounds have a 1/250 (0.4%) chance of being your color; the chance is lower when there are below 15 players in a server, at 1/750 [0.13%]<ref name=":2">chance to obtain update log https://discord.com/channels/786788486887768135/821381992779218955/863837917700030534</ref>. Getting this rare variant will reward you with the "A Rare Variant" badge and the "Aureate" bat skin.

Diamond Slime Hounds have a rarer 1/500 (0.2%) chance of being your color; the chance is lower when there are below 15 players in a server, at 1/1500 [0.07%]<ref name=":2" />. These variants are the rarest Gootraxians in the game.

Rainbow

They can only be achieved in private servers by nicknaming yourself a certain name.

Bestiary Entry

A large, canine like creature with a feathery dinosaur like tail. They have the same skull like masks that Slime Pups have. They seem to be more aggressive and more mature Slime Pups, almost taking a parental role. They are notably over protective with the pups, even going as far to punch at aggressive Panthers to keep them safe.
While they may be over protective, if you show hospitality and kindness to a pup around them, more than often they spare you from their rage. ...That is, if they trust you.

Trivia

• The method of making a rainbow Slime Hound references the infamous "jeb_" Rainbow sheep easter egg from Minecraft.
• Upon the release of V3.0, there was a bug where rare variants could turn humans into a rare variant too. This was fixed later on.

Gallery

Assortment of in-game footage of Slime Hound

Bestiary

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  Slime Hound's Bestiary icon
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  Slime Hound's Bestiary icon when hovered

Expressions & Animations

Slime Hound's attack animation. Slime Hound's attack animation. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Slime Hound's grab animation.

Golden Slime Hound Golden Slime Hound Diamond Slime Hound Diamond Slime Hound Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Slime Hound's Grave, revealing itself upon the player's game leave attempt, exposed.

Slime Hound (Normal) Slime Hound (Normal)

Miscellaneous

• A pink Slime Hound puddle.
  A pink Slime Hound puddle.

References

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