Slime is of the Essence

Slime is of the Essence is a Treasure Hunter promotion and may not currently be active.

Slime is of the Essence
Release date	22 November 2018 (Update)
End date	27 November 2018 (Update unknown) edit
Reward	Slime hunter armour, Lil Gloop, Slimeball, Slime Launcher
Head developer	Unknown edit
Preceded by	N/A
Succeeded by	N/A
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Slime is of the Essence was a five day community event and Treasure Hunter promotion, beginning on 22 November 2018. During the event players helped Peter to defeat King Slime.

Like previous events such as Build-A-Fayre and Boat to the Arc, each day different skills will be available to train. Training requires tools, and all players receive one hundred slime hunter basic tools each day upon login (these are rewarded retroactively if players miss days). Additional slime hunter golden tools can be won on Treasure Hunter. Golden tools provide the progress and experience of 25 basic tools.

Logging in during the event prompts the following message: Slime is of the essence event is now active! Open Treasure Hunter to get your free prize now.

Opening the Treasure Hunter interface for the first time while the event is active will provide the player with two free golden tools, and players will receive the message: You have obtained 2 free golden tools for use in the Slime is of the essence event! You can win more from Treasure Hunter while the event is active!

Event noticeboards offer free teleports to the event area.

Treasure Hunter prizes

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Skills featured

Day
	Skill 1	Experience	Skill 2	Experience	Skill 3	Experience
22 November	Strength	118.8	Mining	93.8	N/A	N/A
23 November	Firemaking	139.4	Hunter	117	N/A	N/A
24 November	Herblore	74.1	Smithing	87.9	N/A	N/A
25 November	Cooking	126.7	Fishing	93.7	Invention	182
26 November	Summoning	96.4	Magic	118.8	N/A	N/A

Progress

Progress is gained through assaulting the slime king using different skills, which are changed on a daily basis on each day the event runs. There are two kinds of progress: personal and community progress. To obtain a reward from the event, both kinds of progress must have hit the threshold for that reward.

On the third day, crates of explosives were present to train the skills instead of directly attacking the King Slime.

On the fourth day, players attempted to destroy Prince Slimes.

On the fifth day, players attempted to strengthen a portal meant to send King Slime elsewhere.

Each set of slime hunter basic tool used increased the personal progress by 0.2%, and slime hunter golden tool by 5%. A total of 500 basic or 20 golden tools are required for full personal progress.

Therefore, if one utilises the hundred tools given daily on each day of the event, 100% personal progress can be attained by the end of the event.

The day after the event ended, a Lil Gloop can be found next to Peter.

Rewards

Training at the event unlocks rewards when both personal and community progress reach certain thresholds. Rewards became available at the end of the event from the chest next to Peter. These include:

Progress level	Reward
1		Slime Hunter outfit
2		Event mystery box
3		Slimeball and Slime Launcher
4		Event mystery box
5		Tier 65 slime hunter armour and Salty emote
6		Event mystery box
7		Tier 70 slime hunter armour and Slip 'n' Slime
8		Event mystery box
9		Lil Gloop and tier 75 slime hunter armour
10		Event mystery box

Ironmen were only able to receive the cosmetic rewards.

Buying more tools

Additional tools could be bought with Loyalty Points from Peter. They were offered in two packages:

Amount of tools	Loyalty Points
30	5,000
100	12,000

A maximum of ten of each of the sets could be bought.

Gallery

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  Event progress interface

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  Tool Shop interface

Update history

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• update 22 November 2018 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Slime is of the essence is a pun on the idiom and legal term time is of the essence.
• The associated update gives a rejected alternative name of goo'd well hunting, a pun on the film Good Will Hunting.
• When speaking to Paul or Barry on the first day of the promotion, they say, "Oh dear..." & "Oh dear... Oh dear..." respectively, which is a tribute to the late Barry Elliot, from the Chuckle Brothers double act.
• In a similar vein, Peter, in his Sous chef's outfit, pays homage to the late comedian and writer Peter Cook.
• John, along with his dog, pays homage to the titular character from the film franchise John Wick.
• Telling Peter "All hope is lost" will result in the response "So say we all", which is reference to a popular quote made on the sci-fi franchise Battlestar Galactica.
• On the second day, John is able to understand from his dog that Joey "fell down the well", with a pun made on Joey not being able to see well without his glasses. This is a reference to the catchphrase "Timmy fell down the well", which was commonly used in the TV show Lassie.
• On the third day of the event, clicking on King Slime will result in unique dialogue options, one of which being "I have decided to accept our new slime overlord". This is a reference to the meme "I, For One, Welcome Our New ______ Overlords".
• On the fourth day, Cooking is introduced as one of the three daily skills, enabling the player to sprinkle salt on the Prince Slime. The manner that it is done in references the Salt Bae Internet meme.
• Peter mentions that he should have hired Special Agent Dale Deglooper to deal with the slime. This is a reference to Special agent Dale Cooper from TV show Twin Peaks.

Glitches

• On the fourth day of the event, some players would encounter system crash when teleporting or walking to Rimmington. The game screen would go black and open the browser to RuneScape's 'error game crash' web page - 'A problem has occurred while running the game.' Relogging back in would repeat the crash. The only way out would be to change to World 97 Legacy only Bounty Hunter or World 106 EOC only Bounty Hunter which automatically teleports player to Edgeville. Players running NXT client were not affected.
• On the fifth day of the event, Java client players may have lag and system crashes on worlds with many players. Changing to worlds with fewer players avoids these problems.