What Happened to the Ancient Ruins? | Slime Rancher Theory

Here are some possibilities as to what happened for the Ancient Ruins, why they are sealed up, and what's the deal with the Glass Desert.
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[@stellapueri_VA]

this theory has very good points though i honestly think that the ancient ruins and the glass desert are the same place but at different times. this would explain why the teleporter in which you put the quantum plorts into look so similar, which would also explain why you can't see the slime sea in the glass desert, but you can in the ancient ruins. hobson even mentions the possibility of two different timelines. another thing to add is i watched someone play this and he mentioned that the oasis could possibly be converging the two different timelines and thus making a time bubble. just my thoughts though, definitely subscribed!

[@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766]

Maybe they disrupted the furture of the place and cause the desert to exist

[@TwoPilotMind]

It’s possible that the glass desert is a mix of different slime realities created by the temporal wave that corrupted an area and mixing different slimes and places maybe even around the planet

[@ElAndGinsee]

this could also be why the things that built the ruins are gone too

[@GoblinHours-im2ue]

Wow-

[@agonyofmoonpodcast8877]

my question is why there are two portals in the glass desert and not just the one

[@twistynoodle9406]

Dude, Beatrix is probably super fucking buff

[@Kaycee-Bee96]

some details that might be of note -theres a broken teleporter at the end of the glass desert that hobson says could unlock the furthest reaches of the universe(mentioned in a hobson note) -the glass desert possibly used to be a lush rainforest(mentioned in tangle slime slimepedia entry) -the echos are distant memory fragments of the society that made the ancient ruins(mentioned in their slimepedia entry i believe) -BOb was, if i remember correctly, an experiment done by viktor to see if slimes could posses the same level of conciousness as humans, and now helps out as viktors assistant(mentioned in viktors side quest) sorry if i messed some of the details up, its pretty late at night and i cant really get on slime rancher right now, and i dont feel like using google so the only reference i have is the slimepedia book, which you can get on fangamer i think

[@Imms64]

With the BOb thingie, that might give another point to the part of quantum bois being created by some sort of event that took place in the ançient ruins long ago

[@startail-wd1bk]

"using MATH" This is the one time I enjoy it

[@ElAndGinsee]

I assume that slimes have cores that store their organ's and keep their shape since otherwise they would fall apart, also look at phospher slimes they have a clear center that glows

[@testchannnellele-hl4hd]

I cant believe that an Instrument Owns a "and keep their shape since otherwise they would fall apart, also look at phospher slimes they have a clear center"

[@rosjivenus1355]

2:45 'and no other known planet' Monomi park:*laughs in slime rancher 2*

[@julib0050]

rainbow island is on the planet "the far far range" just like the dry reef, indigo quarry, and moss banket, ruins, etc in slime rancher 1. Slime rancher 1 took place on one single island on the far far range, and Beatrix takes a boat to rainbow island from the previous slime rancher 1 ranch. As for the glass desert, who the heck knows where that was, there are a lot of theories about time travel.

[@heyitzmae]

But what about the Saber Slimes, which supposedly lived in pre-historic times as well? And the hunter slimes? Besides that pretty solid

[@witheredtrumpet8359]

Ma name is hunter,u has summoned meh

[@floodedbasement__]

Saber slimes were only in the Wilds.

[@eddie-roo]

Pure sabers probably went extinct by that point and hunters don't seem like the kind of slime that would cooperate, since they're more mischievous and aggressive than normal slimes.

[@minefish]

@@eddie-roo and they might not exist yet (the hunter slimes)

[@ritter3723]

I think saber slimes were in the ice age of the far far range, and the ruins were made during the equivalent of the roman/greek times in the far far range

[@offsetmonkey538]

My guess is that they somehow (accidentally?) made the quantum slimes, and used them to open the "portal", which I think uses the quantum slimes... quantum abilities to "shift" you into a different reality or the future, which is what the glass desert is: another reality, or the future of the far far range

[@Peasham]

Firstly, HE LIVES Secondly, I always found the thought Quantum Slimes making all slimes, and subsequently themselves, somewhat plausible, as a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. After all, they sorta disprove that time's linear in Slime Rancher, since they can exist in different realities, and, as such, in different times of those different realities. After all, a reality where everything's the same, but the time's an hour late is still a different reality. So, why couldn't quantum slimes from the future done something to make all the slimes?

[@Johia_Mapping_2]

After 4 years this is still an awesome theory!

[@Mushr00mMania]

Maybe the Tarr had something to do with the fall of the ancient ruins or those big bones because maybe the bones belonged to a big snake like tarr creature that was the dinosaurs of that planet and they destroyed the ruins, because maybe they burrow underground as transportation. Thats my theory.

[@Arcanestatic]

I'm inclined to believe that those big round things aren't bones, but remains of structures. They are absolutely not the right shape to be any known kind of creature, and there are no other bones anywhere else. Those big ribcage-like structures are definitely constructed, not natural.

[@Mushr00mMania]

While I do agree the round structures that look withered with what look like wires in them are man made/ slime made, there is a set of bones in the indigo quarry that looks like it was a creature at one time. Also, Just because there are slimes on the far far range doesn't mean that a species unlike slimes couldn't exist there so I bet the bones where an entirely different species that lived before slimes.

[@Isaac-ec6rw]

@@Mushr00mMania the "bones" in the indigo quarry is just a tunnel falling into disrepair

[@Mariwend]

if chickens can live on the range i'm sure something else could

[@Mariwend]

and bugs can too

[@DogeisCut]

the liquid that slimes are filled with, its taking up 50% air %25 membrane %25, the rock, crystal, and mosaic, are hollow

[@keywearer76]

But but... no hands??

[@Arcanestatic]

MAGIC. Or, more realistically, they used the same methodology we see them use as totems, to make pushing/pulling structures and the like. It's possible!

[@bittersweet7371]

The slimes may have been able to shapeshift at one point, but lost that power over time? Idk

[@imsofunnyxd1010]

keywearer76 maybe they manipulate their shape to be able to use stuff?

[@minefish]

I think they can make hands, the slime that hold the sword and shield from the heroic treasure pod can hold it with paw like hands

[@joaovictornogueira323]

the tarr can create a claw that absorbs the slimes, othey must have some kind of hands too

[@ataruarchives2428]

I just think the slimes are cute lol.

[@thegentleraindrop2375]

6:04 story begins (the best part)

[@thegentleraindrop2375]

6:04

[@Ms.CringeSwirlz16]

quite interesting. Oh also I'm played slime rancher while I was in the glass desert I decorated with echos and put palm trees on those spots where you can place drills, pumps, etc... to make it more pretty and less abandoned. :>

[@ElAndGinsee]

also I think that whatever caused the sea to go down hence the dry reaf destroy the ancient civilisation and created the quantem slimes

[@joshevans1679]

well if it was people or slimes then they would've have to had make the keys the gates which are basically mini seals and mustache island which could've been a cult by the people which could secretly still be going on

[@cmdrdyatlov]

2:34 in future you can put objects into .zip thats how you can carry them

[@mr.jankee7154]

what if the slimes where creatures but then they evolved into the state you see them now but then other slimes kept evolving and then humans arrived and then made the ranch and then started expanding the ranch equipment

[@naglamuhamed9723]

What about the echoes

[@IEatAncientArtifacts]

The ruins and glass desert seem to have similar shapes in the map so I think that they are different times or reality’s of each other

[@LastLeastAction]

I'm honestly thinking the quantum event created a multiverse.

[@funkygrooves9224]

But they would have to develop a language to be able to become that advanced

[@Arcanestatic]

Only if they don't have a way of communicating that's not the standard one that humans use. These guys are very different from us, so it's possible that they communicate in another way.

[@eddie-roo]

Slimes can make sounds, they probably communicate that way.

[@LemonLicker222]

he pulled a game theory and made the main character the villan

[@chipotleenema3996]

id think the mosaic slime were some sort of sand slime but in the new heat evolved into a mosaic so came from an undiscovered slime opposed to a crystal

[@fuser5000yo]

Yes finally someone did it

[@knobrain8213]

Whaaaaat?!!! Awesome theory man!

[@thegentleraindrop2375]

But then Beatrix came and ruined everything. P.S. Why do you sound like you have a stuffy nose P.P.S. Did they create the 7-Family-Seal at night? Or dawn? I'm asking because there is a Phospher slime statue there, and it would be impossible to create it in the day because the Phospher slimes wouldn't really exist.

[@Arcanestatic]

Very likely, I had a stuffy nose at the time haha

[@Draco-1006]

It makes a lot of sense that a temporal disruption caused the downfall of both the Ancient Ruins and the Glass Desert, but I lost you at the part where the slimes built the structures found throughout the game. THEY DONT HAVE HANDS.

[@hazbinzz9123]

Gold weighs alot too

[@Hi-rg1hy]

U can't vac up gold slimes

[@hazbinzz9123]

@@Hi-rg1hy bro this is 2 years old

[@minefish]

@@Hi-rg1hy but the plorts

[@NitroIndigo]

I always assumed slimes were made of non-Newtonian fluid.

[@Prev1ew]

THERES LORE TO SLIME RANCHERS OH MY GOD

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Fun theory, and there might be some truth to some of the events mentioned.

[@nodonteatmybird78]

Perhaps whatever happened to the ruins turned the civilization into quantum slimes, and they were all living there and the desert, so they went extinct when it happened.

[@jacketpayday4647]

What about the eco

[@manettanoland5403]

Me who wants more

[@danhentschelfan]

What about the gold slime they would be really heavy

[@mrtree.1]

Game Theory videos be like

[@Arcanestatic]

Honestly I will take this as a compliment, this video is pretty old but I still like it.

[@mrtree.1]

@@Arcanestatic it is And the story was very interesting

[@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766]

Actually Beatrix is about 4 feet tall I measured

[@Fesh3314]

how?

[@arcaineshifter1799]

Nice name btw

[@Arcanestatic]

Brethren in Arcana!

[@arcaineshifter1799]

@@Arcanestatic Aww yes a fellow seeker of knowledge and lore

[@Frogboyaidan]

Yes

[@mxclovre]

Everybody gangsta till Manomi Park comments

[@user-zg5ym7eq2h]

Slimes building cities an being smart I can’t believe that there is no way. The only reason BOb is smart is because he was one of vicktors experiments

[@jibllyjibs4489]

3 tarrs made a yet account and disliked this

[@Alejandro-zo9ys]

I thought that there was like humans and then the tar attacked

[@CiastkoZ]

boom

[@budnrobots2968]

Noicce

[@Olwyn-yp4zc]

100 coments

[@Arcanestatic]

And it only took 6 years! A new record haha

[@user-hf2wk6nk4l]

Why does he sound like this guy 🤓

[@Arcanestatic]

Oh, friend. I AM that guy.

[@matthewwillis6980]

Rip off of game theory

[@Arcanestatic]

Right, because no other channels are allowed to do a thing that someone else has done before.

[@minefish]

@@Arcanestatic sadly not without it being called a "rip off"😔

[@cyrusboyd8755]

What about the echos