Slimeball

The Slimeball is an item dropped by Small Slimes. There are currently no uses for it. Notch confirmed that they are going to be craftable in a later Beta update.

0-2 slime balls will be dropped when a small slime is killed. Only small slimes will drop Slimeballs on death, and larger slimes will duplicate into smaller slimes (Beta 1.3 update changed it so no matter what item you use to kill a slime, the slime will still drop slimeballs). As slimeballs come from Slimes, they are a renewable resource.

Some users use these as tokens or cash in multiplayer servers, since it has no use and is more realistic, since server mods do not use up inventory space. However, this brings up the ability for players to get free slimeballs from Slimes. This could be good or bad for the server. When in Single Player, some players use them to show how many slimes they have killed.

There are plans and ideas that slimeballs could act as eggs, along with other uses. They could be thrown like eggs or snowballs and may spawn Slimes certain times.

In some Adventure-Maps, Slimeballs act as a score.