Meteorite

  

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For the differences of this information on Old-gen console and 3DS, see Legacy:Meteorite.

Meteorite

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Statistics

• 50%

Type	OreCrafting material
Placeable	✔️ (1 wide × 1 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity	00*
Sell	2 SC
Research	100 required

Inflicts Debuff

Debuff	Burning
Debuff tooltip	Losing life and slowed movement

• Internal Item ID: 116
• Internal Tile ID: 37
• Internal Buff ID: 67

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Special drop	Rate
Meteor Head Meteor Head	Meteorite (pre-Hardmode only)	2% (Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)

Meteorite is a pre-Hardmode, post-evil boss ore mined from Meteorite crash sites. A Meteorite crash site is guaranteed to spawn after the Eater of Worlds or Brain of Cthulhu is defeated for the first time.^[1] If the boss is defeated between midnight and dawn (12:00 AM – 4:30 AM), then the meteor crashes immediately. Otherwise, it will crash at the next midnight (12:00 AM). Meteorite must be mined using a Tungsten Pickaxe or better.

Contact with Meteorite blocks causes the player to be inflicted with the Burning debuff, unless the player has the Obsidian Skull accessory (or its upgrades) equipped, or is using an Obsidian Skin Potion.

Meteor Heads, which naturally spawn in a Meteorite crash site, have a 1/50 (2%) chance to drop a single piece of Meteorite, though only in pre-Hardmode.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Meteorite Bar	Meteorite3	Furnace
only: Meteorite Brick5	Stone Block5 Meteorite

Notes

• Water and honey will not prevent damage from a Meteorite block.
• Meteorite cannot be broken by explosives before Hardmode.

Tips

• Turning Meteorite into Meteorite Bars and selling them is 133% more profitable than selling the raw Meteorite itself.
• If a player places at least 75 pieces of Meteorite, they can create an artificial Meteorite biome, where all enemy spawns are replaced with Meteor Heads.
• While water and honey will not prevent the damage from Meteorite blocks, they will cancel the On Fire! debuff that Meteor Heads inflict.

Trivia

• Meteorite, Hellstone, and Luminite are the only ores that do not have "ore" in their names.
• In real life, meteoric iron was used as the main source of iron metal in ancient cultures.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Stack limit increased from 999 to 9999.

• Desktop 1.4.1: Explosives will now destroy Meteorite in Hardmode.

• Desktop 1.4.0.2: Explosives no longer destroy Meteorite.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Explosives no longer destroy Meteorite.
  • Now has higher Metal Detector priority than Gold and Platinum.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Inventory and placed sprites updated. Old sprites were: .

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Now inflicts the Burning debuff when touched. Previously, the player would take 20 damage and receive invincibility frames when touching the block (similar to Spikes).^[2]
  • Increased stack limit from 250 to 999.
  • Now takes fewer hits with a pickaxe to mine. A Nightmare Pickaxe, for example, now takes 2 hits to mine Meteorite instead of 4.

• Desktop 1.0.5: Now has a sparkle effect.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.

References