With MeteorCraft , meteors will periodically fall and crash into the ground. Find a crater, and you will find various ores, including fashionable ores. Gravel ores from TConstruct will not be generated.
Meteors appear as one of three types. Stone meteors (71%) carry only stone ores, such as iron, redstone, Certus quartz, and tin. Void meteors (19%) carry only void ore, such as Void quartz and Ardite. Edge stone meteors (10%) carry only end-type ores, such as resin trickery and olivine. By default, about 40% of the meteor consists of ore, while the rest are filler blocks. This value can be adjusted in the configuration, as well as which ores are allowed to be generated. Only ores that exist in at least one loaded mod can appear.
Meteors also carry a small amount of glowing dust and gunpowder.
To avoid multiple variants of the same ores, the configuration automatically tracks mods that register different ores, allowing you to control whose ores are generated.
Meteors are, of course, destructive, so there are several options that allow you to protect things globally, at the biome level, or at the Y level. If a meteor enters a protected biome or passes below the minimum allowable Y value, it explodes in the air, harmlessly scattering about 60% of its blocks below.
By default, meteors appear about once an hour, but this rate can be adjusted as desired. High frequencies are not recommended for serious gameplay due to ore oversaturation and severe terrain damage.
Meteors can also appear in showers; a meteor shower lasts from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, during which the frequency of meteors increases significantly. Meteor showers occur rarely - about 1 in 1000 meteors are showers, but they are valuable. All meteors that appear as part of a shower explode in the air.
MeteorCraft adds two types of blocks. If RotaryCraft is installed, crafting them is cheaper, but they require power from RotaryCraft. Meteorite defense weapons, consisting of three levels, will automatically protect the area from meteor strikes. Higher levels are more expensive but protect a larger area (up to 112x112). The meteorite radar will alert you to the appearance or collision of meteors within its (large) range.


