How frequent are meteors landing?

Sooo... there is no barrier that you can make so save yourself? I mean, maybe it works differently for player placed blocks, but I would doubt that...

And I know it's a new feature and that they will be tweaking it for a while I'm sure, lol... especially since people will be whining about it everytime something they build gets destroyed by one.
But as of right now that plus the chest glitch I've encountered has made me not want to play until that chest thing is at least fixed... which also makes me sad since I really do like this game a lot~ And being part of the beginning of the whole thing feels great too even with all the beta bull, lol...

 

Hopefully it only happens on certain planets, and there will be an easy way to tell which planets are affected in the future. If it can just randomly happen on any planet, it's stupid and makes building anything on planets pointless. I'm not going to build anything anywhere there is any chance of it being randomly destroyed.

The biome of the planet shouldn't matter for this "weather" effect, but in reality the chance of an impact is determined by the age of a system and if a planet is shielded by the gravity of larger outer planets. Younger systems are filled with asteroids that constantly bombard young planets and collide with each other to form new planets. Older systems have few or no objects flying around, and the inner planets almost never get hit.

 

Win! Can't wait to attempt sandbagged bunkers

 

Hopefully my new base completly out of titanium survives an impact...

 

If we can capture fluids now (added by rain), maybe a hydraulically buffered titanium shell... =)

Or put asteroid-destroying killer satellites in orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


And we need an AIR RAID SIREN to warn of imminent meteor impacts!

 

Do you have any screenshots of the aftermath ? I'd like to see the damage it did.

 

I would hope that they DO make these things biased to certain biome types actually. Planets like Earth have an atmosphere and thus rarely get anything hitting the ground due to it burning up. However, our moon doesn't have that same protection. I'm sure this could be used to give certain biomes higher chances of meteors than others.

Though it would also make sense to bias the meteors based on the system the planet is in too, as others have pointed out. Hopefully these features will appear later on in development. If not, I'm sure a mod will appear somewhere to correct it.

 

And here we have a very good reason for a thing the next patch could/should implement: Planetary Force Fields for bases.

 

Started new char and landed on my forest planet. About 20 mins later after I built part of a small shelter a meteorite lands with an impact about half a screen wide and nearly hit me and took out half the building. All the stone brick blocks were gone. I thought it was cool and figured it must of been a pretty uncommon thing for it to nearly hit me like that so I started building again. I got a big room with doors and background and a couple lanterns I found so about 15-20 mins after the first event a 2nd hit about 30 blocks to the right of the first impact and took out 1/3 of the structure. all the blocks + a wheelbarrow gone but the background building blocks remained untouched. 2 meteorites, pretty large ones in a 20-30 min window nearly hitting me. Sounds like they basically center around and near your character. And the freqency is too high. There is an astroid belt in another group of planets around the same sun but where I am at its mine and 1 more large snow planet with no astroids immediately by me.

 

I doubt a jungle would have been able to grow if the planet gets bombed every day.
Besides that, the surface is perfectly intact until you show up. So essentially you are being followed by them....

I agree with his idea. The frequency of the meteor showers should have to do with the biome. Moons have no atmosphere so they should have a much higher risk.

I wonder what would happen if you dig down deep enough on a planet with many of these and just let the game run. They should reduce your planet to nothing but the core after some time.

 

So do they happen more often if you have a meteorite field in the same system ?

I got hit bye 3 of them in 15 min.

 

Yeah, I was thinking about this. If you let the world just go on long enough and have it on standby, would meteors just eventually destroy the entire planet?

 

They seem to only hit by your char. Not when you are not on the planet or too far off screen =/

 

I don't Know about you guys but this seems to be an interesting mechanic. How about with this new threat, they make energy Dome generators you can put over your base for protection or missle turrets to shoot them down which are all craftable. Those are my thoughts.

 

Still won't change the fact that your planet will be reduced to nothing but an island with your house swimming in lava after some time.

 

you are talking as if the current balance is set and stone. Which it is not. So yeah...

 

Nah that'll only happen within a few screens of you, much like crops growing, if a tree falls in a starbound forest and nobody is around to hear it....it doesn't make a sound.

 

How I would design it:

• When a meteor hits, there will be a crater alright.
  But there will be mounds of dirt left and right of it.
  
  
• These mounds consist of the blocks that were "destroyed".
  
  
• In addition, there are new ore veins added to these mounds.
  Some of these ores could be in pick-up-able blocks instead of "being rock".
  That makes the clearing not as painful because you get "free stuff".
  Probably a lot higher quality than is normal on this planet.

Clearing up a meteor strike would be work but it adds ore as well. It doesn't just dig straight for the center of the planet. =)

 

People should just stop complaining and chill out.

It was said on stream that these WOULDN'T happen on every planet, such as beginner forest planets and whatnot.

If it is happening on planets that aren't in an asteroid field, its probably because a mistake was made somewhere, and it'll likely be fixed soon,

 

Just started my first player-wiped and universe-wiped game under the new update...had a brief meteor shower right from the get-go that only lasted a few seconds with a couple or so craters. Afterwards, I got to enjoy a minute of peace to play with the saplings and bounce around with the low gravity. Then came the mother of all carpet bombings. Deeeefinitely don't see an above-ground structure being built by me anytime soon 'cause, well, DAYUM!!!