Prickle Pear (Slime Rancher)

“	This is a fruit that knows how to fight back.	”
	— the Slimepedia

Information
Spawn Locations:	The Glass Desert
Food type
Favorite of
Maximum harvest	15 (23 with Deluxe Upgrade)
Decay time	36 hours (Up to 48 hours on garden soil upgraded with Miracle Mix)

The Prickle Pear is a fruit found exclusively in The Glass Desert. It can be grown in a Garden Plot in The Ranch.

Slimepedia Entry

About:
Prickle pears are as tough as the Glass Desert itself; having a thick, leathery, skin and covered in sharp barbs, they're an 'acquired taste' to be sure. But those who put forth the cautious effort will find one of the sweetest fruits in the known universe hiding within.

On the Ranch:
Deposit a prickle pear into a garden's depositor and you'll grow a large prickle pear tree of your very own.

Tips

• Prickle Pears are easy to grow and harvest while Dervish Plorts are high in value, making it one of the best Fruit/Slime combinations in the game financially. It shares this trait with the Mosaic Slime and its favoured veggie, the Silver Parsnip.
• Like The Silver Parsnip, Prickle Pear's are quite rare, so it may be smart to find one and grow it in a Garden back at the Ranch.

Map

Note that this map does not include locations of Prickle Pears that are spawned with an Oasis, and are on the map regardless of game state. More Prickle Pear nodes are spawned with Rock Oasis 1, Rock Oasis 2, and Mosaic Oasis 2.
Also note that while these locations are precise, they may be on different elevations.

Gallery

A Prickle Pear tree being grown in a Garden.

Ditto, in a Deluxe Upgrade.

A couple of Prickle Pear trees in The Glass Desert after having an Oasis restored.

A hanging Prickle Pear tree in The Glass Desert.

A normal and a rotten Prickle Pear, side by side.

Old Prickle Pear model from versions before 0.3.1.

Changelog

• 1.3.1 - Fixed an issue where fruits and veggies would almost always be unripe in an area that you haven’t visited in awhile.
• 0.6.0 - Implemented. It is the Dervish Slime's favourite food. Now found in The Glass Desert.
• 0.5.0 - Quantum Slimes got added and Prickle Pear is not their favorite food anymore.
• 0.4.3 - Unimplemented - Quantum Slimes were added to game code with Prickle Pear as their favourite food.
• 0.3.1 - Fruits, veggies, and fruit trees have received a lovely makeover. They are now more visually distinct. The Cuberry tree is now cube-shaped because science.
• 0.2.0 - Unimplemented. The Prickle Pear is now no longer the Rock Slime's favourite food; Rock Slimes now favour Heart Beets and unimplemented Mosaic Slimes were changed to favour Prickle Pears.
• Before 0.2.0 - Unimplemented. The Prickle Pear is the Rock Slime's favourite food.

Origin

Prickle Pears are a visual pun on the Prickly Pear cactus. Physically, they resemble purple pears, with spines reminiscent of the kiwano fruit.

Trivia

• Although the Prickle Pear has not been the Rock Slime's favoured food since before Update 0.2.0, the "Rancher's Rundown" and early art on the page on the Monomi Park website still indicates this.