Talk:Meteorite (biome)

Merged into the Environments page
This article, while well written, is so small that I'd say we merge it - along with all the rest of the biome pages - into the overarching Environment page. MarekkPie 14:59, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Personally I'm against merging, I think the biomes deserve their own page and possibly an overarching category page (similar to how ores are laid out). Then you can read up on specific details of the biomes as well as the general information on all of them. -Shadowclaimer 16:11, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Although, i have come across a meteorite landing on a floating island, albeit extraordinarily rare. 69.177.92.242 15:27, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

How Many
How many actual Meteorite's can be active on your world at a time? More than one? Seems like a useful question to answer. Going to go break another orb. - Bacon 03:40, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Only one at a time. :< - Bacon 05:49, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

I currently have 2 meteorites active on my world, I think the limit to how many you can have active in one world is determined by how many you spawn by breaking orbs.
 * The meteor limit is based on the number of meteor tiles above 0 depth. In a small world if you have 400 or more meteor tiles, new meteors will not drop. Medium worlds is 600, and large worlds is 800.--GauHelldragon 00:01, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I dynamited a Shadow Orb (it got caught in the blast radius...) and saw the "chill going down spine" message, but after that nothing happened. No meteor drop or goblin invasion. Strange. It's been >10 nights already. - Spinfx 07:32, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
 * UPDATE: I finally got a goblin invasion, after approx 3 in-game weeks. I guess it was just bad luck. Didn't do anything significant in the meantime, was occupied mining out the floating islands. Still no meteor though, that's puzzling since I thought it had a much higher chance of occurring compared to the goblin invasion. - Spinfx 17:03, 24 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I have a weird problem...I broke ONE shadow orb, and meteorites will NOT stop landing! Four have landed already and there are two active currently. How do I make them stop landing? It even persists across saves. I have version 1.0.3 of Terraria, if that makes a difference. 99.164.79.151 23:48, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * you must actually be lucky then because you get one meteor for one orb then more by (very low) chance every day unless you break more. although i never had two in one day happen (except one time when i broke 4 orbs in one day but i call that a fluke) 96.13.90.152 18:24, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Sky bridges
I've read that since meteor strikes replace existing blocks, and they strike at the highest altitude possible, so if you make a sky bridge you can block a meteor strike, and it will replace only the one block thick strip you created up there. I have some clarifying questions:

Does anyone know which types of blocks it replaces? Only stone? Or dirt? Or what?

Does anyone know which types of blocks the meteor will pass through? i.e. If I made my sky bridge entirely out of wood platform (Where if you press down, you drop) would it leave the meteorite unhindered?

208.65.73.120 14:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * as far as i know, it can replace ANY type of block, including the very hard material ebonstone. meteorites will not pass through wooden platforms. --Blue Legion 23:32, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Where Meteorites can Land
Which of these locations are meteorites able to hit? (Some are already answered but listed for reference)

Corrupted Areas: Yes

Floating Islands: Yes

Chasms: Yes

Sky Bridges: Yes

Platforms: Yes

Below Landforms: At Least Inside Chasms

In Water: Yes

Ocean: Yes

Dungeons: Yes

Near NPC Housing: No ( Sort of: Meteors will not fall too close to an NPC )

Man Made Structures: At Least Platforms

Near Default Spawn Point: No

Previous Crash Site: Yes

Also does the landing spot require a specific area size? Say there was a single floating block, although the odds are almost 0, is it able to pick that location?

I just found out that the meteorite can hit in the ocean and therefor in water. Jrob 18:11, 31 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Dungeons: sort of, at least NEAR a dungeon.
 * Platforms: yes. although this scene is recreated from memory, this DID happen to me.
 * below Platforms: probably not, reason above
 * also, once, a meteor crashed into the SIDE of a chasm. i don't know how. --Blue Legion 23:29, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Changed "Previous Crash Site" from ? to Yes. Had one land in exactly the same location as a previous one. --76.171.180.33 21:46, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Falling on dungeons
What's so bad about meteorites falling on dungeons? --The dnmr 07:17, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

I agree, I think that comment is a little unnecessary. Jrob 13:21, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

noticed something
feel free to treat me as a troll but dirt and/or stone blocks at site of original meteor strike while >50 ore is still around, it will spread extremely slowly (i assume 1 per day). i can't prove any of this but i say this comment because i had cut out a square hole/tunnel under one meteor landing and ignored it for i can't remember how long, going back to it there seemed to have been a lot less dirt/stone than i remember directly on the remaining meteor. that event had around 150 ore left at least though. i hope i'm not assuming random stuff. i know it doesnt' happen with player made meteor environment "arenas"... but that is slightly obvious... 96.13.17.11 00:44, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Do meteors only fall during the day?
I'm poking through the source code and I see that meteors theoretically should not spawn between midnight and 4:30 AM, but will drop shortly after 4:30 instead. Has anyone seen a meteor spawn during that time span? I realize it's pretty difficult to confirm. --Theothersteve7 01:36, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Meteorites causing corruption?
I had a meteor land, found it, and mined a bit of it with dynamite. (Not enough to stop the meteor head spawns, though.) I came back later, (many in-game days) and found the area around the meteorite was corrupt. I don't know if this was caused by the meteorite, and this isn't mentioned on the wiki page. Does anyone know if the meteorite caused this or not?
 * Corruption spreads slowly, but surely. It'll sometimes take weeks of game time for it to spread correctly. I think that's what you saw: The meteorite landed, then the corruption spread. happypal (talk &bull; contribs) 18:43, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Chest destruction
Can anyone confirm/deny that meteorites will destroy chests and their contents? What about gold chests? --SystemParadox 17:18, 23 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Meteors will not fall on a normal or gold chest. --GauHelldragon 00:01, 24 July 2011 (UTC)


 * So be putting chest on the surface of the world you can control where they land to a degree? futRtrubL 18:58, 24 July 2011 (UTC)


 * In theory, yes. However, the game will only attempt to drop a meteor 100 times before giving up. --GauHelldragon 21:55, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

meteorite on a world with no smashed shadow orbs but with a new character
while playing terraria on a new world and character it said "a meteorite has landed" in 1.0.6 I don't know why it happened