How To Unlock And Use Viktor’s Workshop In Slime Rancher

Although the main character, Beatrix, may appear to be quite lonely in Slime Rancher, it’s safe to say she’s not entirely alone. You can receive letters from other ranchers or trade with them through the Range Exchange. These trades can sometimes provide you with useful items, such as food or plorts that you might not currently have access to.

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Among the individuals you can trade with is Viktor. Viktor is a scientist who has created a simulation called The Slimeulation, a virtual copy of the Far, Far Range. Within this simulation, you’ll encounter a very unique type of slime.

How To Unlock Viktor’s Workshop

Viktor Humphries is one of the characters you can interact with through the Range Exchange system. By talking to certain characters via Range Exchange, you can visit their ranches, and Viktor’s is one of them. There is a teleporter to Viktor’s Workshop in the Lab, but it is not functional at the beginning. To activate the teleporter, you must meet several prerequisites.

Purchase The Lab

Since the teleporter to Viktor’s Workshop is in the Lab, the first step is to purchase the Lab. The Lab is located to the south of your ranch. To buy it, you will need a total of 10,000 Newbucks.

After purchasing the Lab, you will find the teleporter to Viktor’s Workshop inside the Lab, on the left side of the central Refinery. However, this teleporter will not work until you complete the other requirements.

Purchase The Treasure Cracker MK II

Once you have bought the Lab, its main components work as follows:

• You buy blueprints from the machine on the left,
• Launch plorts into the middle machine
• Craft gadgets using the plorts in the machine on the right.

Before you can buy the Treasure Cracker MK II, you must first purchase its predecessor, the Treasure Cracker MK I. You can buy it from the upgrade station in front of your ranch. However, to buy the Treasure Cracker MK I, you will need to craft a gadget in the Lab.

Afterward, to buy the Treasure Cracker MK II, you need to craft a total of 20 gadgets. Once you meet these conditions, you can purchase it for 9,000 Newbucks.

Open The Ancient Ruins Slime Gate

Another requirement to access Viktor’s Workshop is unlocking the slime gate to the Ancient Ruins. You can reach the Ancient Ruins in two ways: from Indigo Quarry or Moss Blanket. Either way, you will need a Slime Key, which can be obtained by popping specific Gordo slimes.

However, reaching the Ancient Ruins Transition area is not enough. You will need to open the door to the Ancient Ruins itself. To do so, you must shoot plorts from six different slimes (Tabby, Rock, Phosphor, Honey, Boom, and Rad) into their respective Plort Statues.

Trade With Viktor Humphries

If you have met all the other requirements, the final step is to trade with Viktor once. To trade via Range Exchange, you will see a machine that allows you to exchange on the right side of the main northern exit gate of your ranch. After making a trade with it, you will receive a Starmail. Once you read the Starmail, you will be able to use the teleporter in the Lab.

How To Use Viktor’s Workshop

After teleporting to Viktor’s Workshop via the Lab’s teleporter, you will be able to visit it as much as you want. The first thing you need to do is use the Range Exchange machine to talk to Viktor. He will ask you to help test a simulation world in Far, Far Range, known as the ‘Slimeulation.’

After finishing your conversation with Viktor, enter the teleporter in the area and press the button. This will take you to Slimeulation. In Slimeulation, your goal is to find Glitch Slimes. These slimes can take the form of other slimes and objects. If they take on the form of other slimes, their faces will look different, which you could call a ‘Ditto face.’

When you suck up these altered slimes, Glitch Slimes will appear, and you need to vacuum them up. If you don’t capture them within a certain time, they will disappear. Here’s how many Glitch Slimes are contained in different types of slimes:

In addition, you will come across green glowing objects in Slimeulation. These are Debug Sprays, which are stored in your water tank inventory. You need to use Debug Spray on abnormal objects that should not be there. Glitch Slimes can take on the form of these objects but do not fully match them, so you need to reveal them.

For example, if you see a shaking rock, it is fake and contains Glitch Slimes. Similarly, if a fruit tree has an abnormal fruit or the fruit is ripe when it shouldn’t be, it indicates that Glitch Slimes are present. These objects contain a total of 12 Glitch Slimes.

After spending enough time in Slimeulation, corrupted rifts will appear, and the game will notify you that the exit portal is active. Corrupted rifts will spawn Tarrs unique to Slimeulation. These Tarrs can be eliminated with Debug Spray, but they will continue to spawn from the rifts. When they despawn, they may split into two, but otherwise, they behave like normal Tarrs.

When the exit portal is active, follow the yellow arrows to find the Beacon. Using it will teleport you back to Viktor’s Workshop. If you die in Slimeulation, you won’t faint and wait until the next day. Instead, you will be teleported back to Viktor’s Workshop.

Once you exit Slimeulation and return to Viktor’s Workshop, the Glitch Slimes you collected will be turned into Bug Reports. You can submit these Bug Reports into the Range Exchange machine in Viktor’s Workshop to earn various rewards:

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