Slime Rancher's Slime Science system allows players to create useful gadgets and items that aid them in raising Slimes. Quite a few of the Slime Science creations require the use of Deep Brine as an ingredient, and this guide will explain how to get hold of this useful resource.
Slime Rancher is a first-person life simulation adventure game developed and published by Monomi Park. The game follows Beatrix Lebeau as she sets out for a new life on the Far Far Range, raising a wide variety of slimes to harvest their plorts for various purposes.
Option 1: Build and Deploy Pumps
Slime Science allows players to construct a number of resource harvesting gadgets which can be deployed around the Far Far Range to gather resources, such as the Drill, Apiary, and Pump. These come in a variety of different qualities and can be deployed to harvest resources from a region. Each extractor takes 12 in-game hours to complete a single cycle. Higher quality extractors perform more cycles before breaking and have higher chances of extracting higher quality resources.
The Pump is the extractor needed to acquire Deep Brine, and can be crafted using 10 pink plorts, 6 tabby plorts, and 3 boom plorts. Higher quality pumps will allow for more efficient harvesting, but as Deep Brine is a common resource, there shouldn't be much difficulty acquiring it using the basic Pump. Acquiring the Novice Pump blueprint requires players to gain access to the Lab expansion for the Ranch by paying 10,000 newbucks, and then spend 500 newbucks to unlock the blueprint at the builder shop.
Once players have access to a Pump, Deep Brine can be acquired by deploying the Pump at The Dry Reef. This is the only location where the Pump will yield Deep Brine.
Option 2: Treasure Pods
Another way to get Deep Brine in Slime Rancher is by obtaining it from treasure pods. There are a number of treasure pods in the Lab and the Dry Reef, and one in the Ancient Ruins which will grant Deep Brine when opened, though this will of course require players to get treasure cracker upgrades of sufficient quality to open each pod. Treasure cracker upgrades are unlocked once enough gadgets have been created at the Lab, with the MKII unlocking at 20 gadgets and the MKIII at 50.
Slime Rancher is available now for PS4, PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.