Slime Rancher

There are plenty of videos on YouTube that detail people's playthroughs of this newer version of Rush Mode, however, many of them leave a lot up to you to figure out in terms of your ranch managing process. You should of course already know the map pretty well and be familiar with the game (should have 54/57 achievements before attempting Rush Mode) but it can be scary jumping into a timed mode like this without knowing EXACTLY what to do.

After watching several guides I found on YouTube I found one that suited me EXTREMELY well that, by using it, I managed to get Rush Mode done with 122,200 newbucks on my first try. It doesn't involve drones or anything too complicated, and every step is detailed. You might be a little bit slower than the creator of this video, but remember that you do have a good chunk of leeway (for example, in my run I lost around 5 whole minutes trying to find 40 honey and quantum slimes, I also didn't even bother with trying to get all of the plort bonuses nor did I bother doing the fourth Ranch Exchange task as I already had sufficient funds for the achievement)

The legendary video guide I speak of is this one:

Slime Rancher Rush Mode v1.2 Walkthrough by ChiralKyle

No commentary, simply well thought out text captions explaining only the essentials of every step of the process.

I also uploaded my personal playthrough of this achievement to YouTube. I use all of the exact same strategies outlined in the video above.

Slime Rancher | "Rush Plortmaster" Achievement Rush Mode Full Run (122,220) by Mercury

Good luck! And remember, you can PAUSE THE GAME to freeze the clock.

This achievement is easier than it sounds. After reading a lot of guides on how to do it (and actually getting it) i noticed that they are all more complicated than it has to be.

The achievement requires you to have 75k at the end of the run...unless you use the 25 plort bonuses, which are one of the main things you need to get for your own sake

General steps I followed

• Create a new save until you get a very easy first exchange and complete it asap. Exchanges give you needed to feed gold gordos
• Pop two golden gordos and sell all the plorts (or one if you want to carry the leftover fruits for a while)
• Get one corral with plort collector, high walls and a ceiling (all the corrals obtained only require this). While you're at it place down two teleporter entrances OF DIFFERENT COLORS
• Get two gardens and max them out.
• Run into the dry reef, grab a combined 14 of rock and tabby slimes, they will be one of the gordo combos early on to get rid of.
• Get 60 fruits and pop two key gordos. Gordos that hold keys only need 30 fruit each, 15 if you use the favorite. I recommend a pink and the phosphor gordos since they are the easiest
• Grab 3 Rock Plorts and cheese into The Moss Blanket by flying into the pillar and on top of the gate, you do not use your key to enter it, it is a waste
• Put one of the teleporter exits of your choice inside for easy access.
• Rush to the glass desert and restore one of the fountains, you'll grab as many tangle, dervish and mosaic slimes as you can, they'll be your main source. Don't forget to get prickly pears
• Put your other teleporter exit in there for easy access
• Return to your farm, plant prickly pears into the gardens and make dervish-somethingi gordos, you'll use the fact that prickly pear give double plorts

TL;DR

Do a very easy exchange, pop gold gordos, get 2 slime keys, put 2 teleporters on your ranch, rush to the glass desert with 3 rock plorts by cheesing into it, not using a key. Put a teleporter in the moss blanket and go to the glass desert (and put the other teleporter there). Get as many of the high tier slimes as possible to make money and return, afterwards get as many plort bonuses as you can.

Ideally all this should be done by Day 1 and is relatively simple if you get the route in your mind beforehand.

Afterwards all you have to do is get as many of the 25 plort bonus as you can, as help you with a % increase for your final score.

You don't have to be super fast ironically

I played extremelly inefficient as in the run I got the achievement (and my first run as well), I didn't have routes memorized and got lost for like 10 minutes, whilst also not doing the last 2 exchanges due to getting locked behind one for too long. Not only that but my choice of slimes for money was very bad since I was too focused on bonuses, only had two corrals with mosaic-dervish gordos when you could get a lot more, as long as you do it early so it pays off in the long run.

For reference, here are the plort bonuses I went for and my final result
Bonuses

• Pink, Rock, Phosphor, Tabby, Radioactive, Honey, Boom, Puddle, Quantum, Dervish, Mosaic, Tangle and Gold

Final score

• 71296 newbucks + 77% bonus = 126198 final score

The Feral Path Vault has guaranteed gold slimes, you require a key to open and can only be accessed after the end credits. See https://slimerancher.fandom.com/wiki/The_Vaults/Feral_Path?file=VaultFeralPathMap.png for the location

If you have a guilded ginger, you can just go there as soon as you unlock it and quickly throw it at them, because they run away and despawn shortly after spawning. If you don't, at level 22 of the 7Zee Rewards Club you unlock the Golden Sureshot perk that gives you a guaranteed 3 plorts every time you feed a gold slime, just go to the same location and feed them.

However, if you have been to the vault before, they will not spawn again as it is only guaranteed on the first time you enter it. Otherwise you'll have to wait and hope to find one somewhere across the Far, Far Range