Lucky Slime

"Oooh, shiny!"

Slimeology:
Lucky slimes are a strange variant of tabby slimes that seem to have a fascination with shiny objects, particularly newbuck coins. A lucky slime gobbles up any coin it can find, giving it a distinct jingling sound as it moves about.

However, coins don't make for a balanced diet and a lucky slime will still greedily devour meat of any kind. in doing so, its body bursts with a shower of newbucks, leaving little room left in its slimy tummy. This burst often sends the lucky slime flying into the air.

Upon detecting a rancher, the lucky slime will soon make a hasty retreat. No known rancher has been skilled enough, or perhaps lucky enough, to capture one of these slippery slimes.

Rancher Risks:
Lucky slimes pose the same risk to ranchers as other rare slimes: mainly, accidents in pursuit which can lead to demise. The promise of a small fortune when encountering a lucky slime has led to more than a few ranchers head-first into the slime sea.

This occurrence has led some of the more superstitious ranchers to see the lucky slime as a bad omen, or the universe testing their greed. These ranchers will ignore lucky slimes altogether, even purposefully shooing them away. Well, until you hear those newbucks jingling, and then, maybe just one shot couldn't hurt...

Plortonomics:
A lucky slime isn't known to produce plorts of any kind. Leading slime scientists believe this to be the result of the lucky slime not being a true slime variant. Rather, lucky slimes are believed to be just an abnormal tabby slime: one whose color has faded as a result of ingesting so many coins. It is perhaps this very change that also led to ceasing plort production.

Tips

 * Lucky Slimes cannot be captured or ranched by any means.
 * It doesn't produce any plorts, but it gives you Newbucks after being fed.
 * Giving it any kind of Meat, or coins from Crates will make it thrown into the sky, while giving you ~150 newbucks.
 * If you are lucky enough, the lucky slime may land near you, and you can feed it again.
 * You can tell if it's present by it's distinctive sound of jingling coins.

Trivia

 * Lucky slimes are based off the maneki-neko (lit. beckoning cat), the Japanese lucky cat.
 * They also bear a resemblance to the Pokèmon Meowth; namely, the coin on its forehead.
 * Despite being a rare slime, they have the AI of a normal slime for the most part. They can even form totems with other slimes.
 * Unlike gold slimes, these slimes do not run away from you (giving you a chance to feed them again). Instead they sit in the same spot and then vanish. They do not need to hit a wall.