Meteorite (biome)

A crashed meteorite is a medium-level event location. A meteor crash site will spawn when someone breaks a Shadow Orb, or can be generated randomly if no meteorite is present in the world at that time.

Event
You will be notified by a chat message: "A meteorite has landed!" when a meteor strikes the surface. This can sometimes happen immediately after breaking the Shadow Orb, or can take up to several days.

The meteorite will land somewhere on the surface, replacing many blocks dozens of tiles deep with meteorite blocks in a roughly circular pattern. Touching the meteorite itself will burn you and you jump away unless you have an Obsidian Skull accessory equipped (A Cobalt Shield will stop the jumping reaction, but you will still be hurt by the meteor).

Usefulness
You can mine Meteorite ore from the impact site, allowing you to craft Meteor Bars at a furnace and craft a variety of equipment.

However, Meteor Heads will continuously spawn while you mine, and attack you. They can pass through all blocks and fly, so it can be quite difficult for characters without good armor or weapons to attempt to mine the meteorite.

Once most of the meteorite is mined (less than 50 meteorite blocks remain unmined) the music will change back to normal and meteor heads will stop spawning, although the remaining Meteor Heads will still attack. Afterwards, the remainder of the meteorite can be safely mined or ignored.

Monsters in Meteorite Biome

 * Meteor Head