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)

This article is about the ore. For the biome, see Meteorite (biome).

Meteorite is a type of ore mined from Meteorite crash sites. Crash sites are not generated upon world creation, but instead generate throughout the game based on certain conditions. Mining Meteorite requires a Tungsten Pickaxe or better.     Additionally, Meteor Heads also have a 2% chance to drop a single piece of Meteorite, though only in pre-Hardmode.

Crash sites can occur anywhere, accompanied by a status message "A meteorite has landed!". Meteorite is required to craft Meteorite Bars.

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. Meteorite can be mined without these defenses, and the ore is safe to collect once mined.

Any area with at least (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 75 / (Old-gen console version) 50 / (3DS version) 23 Meteorite blocks in close proximity (e.g. a natural crash site) becomes a Meteorite biome, which will spawn Meteor Heads.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Meteorite Bar	Meteorite3	Furnace
only: Meteorite Brick5	Stone Block5 Meteorite
only: Meteorite Brick2	Stone Block Meteorite

Notes

• Water/Honey will not prevent damage from a Meteorite block.
• Meteorite, Hellstone, Luminite, and Obsidian are the only ores that do not have "ore" in the name.
• (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 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.
• Blocks between the player and a Meteorite block will prevent damage. A layer of Sand or a similar gravity-affected block can effectively negate much of the danger of mining Meteorite.
• If a player places at least (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 75 / (Old-gen console version) 50 / (3DS version) 23 pieces of Meteorite, they can create an artificial Meteorite biome, where all enemy spawns are replaced by Meteor Heads.
• While Water/Honey will not prevent the damage from Meteorite blocks, they will cancel the On Fire! debuff that Meteor Heads have a chance to inflict, meaning that they can still be useful to bring when mining in a Meteorite biome.

History

 Desktop version

• 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:  
  • Dynamite and Bombs no longer destroy Meteorite.
  • Added a Background Effect for when a Meteorite is falling.
  • Now has higher Metal Detector priority than Gold and Platinum.
  • Now requires 75 Meteorites instead of 50 to create an artificial biome.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Changed item texture from to .
  • Changed block texture from to .

• Desktop 1.2:
  • No longer causes invincibility frames when touched. Now inflicts Burning instead.
  • 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 have 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.