Slimeball

The Slimeball is an item dropped by Slimes. There are no uses for it so far. Notch confirmed that they are going to be craftable in a later beta update.[citation needed]

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.

Wild Speculation
Slimeballs may or may not be bought back, but if they are, there are a number of speculated uses for the item such as:


 * Repairing broken tools and armour
 * as a throwing item, used to slow down mobs (applying an effect similar to soul sand)
 * as a crafting ingredient along with other things (such as possibly water or sand etc.) to make glue.