Your Meteor Experience/How They Work?

So in conclusion, meteorites won't occur on every planet. Identify the weather on your planet to identify pros and cons before building a surface home out of sticks and twigs. I'll continue to exist on my meteor swarm plagued world, underneath the surface.

A way to predict swarms would be lovely though. Sensors on our ships and what have you

 

As someone said earlier being underground DOES NOT protect against meteor.
Building a wall of protection around your building DOES NOT protect against meteor.

The meteors spawns on the border of your screens, it means that if, like me, you have a multi levels undeground base, you are screwed too. Because let's say you are at level -2, your level -1 WILL take some hits from the meteors who comes from the top of your screen and if it's your chests zone, like me, then you can cry....

Now as soon as I heard a meteor falling I just go to my ship for 2 or 3 minutes waiting for the end of the shower .

(sorry for my bad english btw)

 

I don't have a meteorite at hand but I was wondering, wouldn't be better to just build a big "pot" filled with sand and gravel?

 

almost Wet myself when one hit as I was mining some ore, it took out alot of the blocks around me, by the looks of it I should have died lol

 

So wait, even if you're underground, like considerably underground...meteorites will still blow something up? /clip underground?

 

This is something that definitely needs fixed. At least in the vertical aspect. Pretty lame spawning inside lol.

 

So do they spawn if there's a background wall? Is there a certain distance underground you have to be before they won't spawn? My current home world (a small forest biome) get's hit about every 10 minutes. I've been trying to shield it but so far not having much luck. I'm about to make a magmarock shield complete with full background walls but if they can still spawn on back walls it would be futile and I may as well pack up my base and move on.

 

This is exactly what ruins the game for me, especially building on a multiplayer server. When we run the server we plan to do a lot of world building, and being forced to make all our stuff out of specific material kind of makes me not want to even build. We're fairly thematic and like to stick to as deep immersion as we can get...meaning on an planet with an Avian or Glitch village, things will be uniformly wood and stone and thatch, etc.

Anyone know how easy a mod to turn off the broken meteor feature would be to make? I'm all for the excitement of meteor showers, but there should be just as many safe planets (if not more) where they don't happen at all. And when they do happen they need to not happen on your character. Imagine what that'd be like on a planet with 15 players on the surface...

 

So I can 100% confirmed that they DO hit you underground

http://imgur.com/7so0pRh


It just needs to be fixed, no need to talk about protection or such, just move into your ship and wait for the end if you have a building to protect, or just do like me, move out and find another planet.

 

Yes, but you can still easily see the surface there. I'm thinking if you are farther down then you won't get hit?

 

@Pumpkin_Masher - deducing from that fact that people encountered meteorites while being very far underground, I'd say bg blocks make no differences.
It COULD be a different matter for playerplaced bg blocks, but e.g. the teleporter cares only about any type of bg blocks. My hypothesis is it won't help.

Also, I'm on the fence regarding how much they should dumb the meteoritess down. They shouldn't spawn underground, that's just ridiculous, but I kinda like that some planets simply can't be built upon. It adds to the diversity that not every planet of fit for everything.
If they make it so that your starter planet never has meteorites and it's always safe to build underground, I think I'm fine.

 

No you haven't understand, read what I wrote earlier.

For this picture when the meteor shower was there I was lower and so it hits the HIGHER level, I just jump up after to take the screenshot.

 

I definitely want to see them in game. I just want at least equally number of planets or more that don't have them. Look at earth. We've been able to build and settle here without having to worry about buildings and cities being destroyed by meteorites. I mean sure, they have happened, but years and years apart, and never destoryed cities. Definitely your starter planet shouldn't have meteorites. Nothing like completely discouraging someone from building right from the start lol. Bad idea that could turn off a lot of casual fans or people that'd otherwise be interested.

 

I do understand, the same thing happened to me. I'm talking about building way underground.

 

Oh ok, not sure for that, but anyway it must be fixed .

They just have to make the meteor falling from the sky, not from the top of your screen, and it should be good.

 

Dr. Toros was awesome enough to whip up a quick mod that disables the meteors in certain biomes. Here's a link to the thread with a direct link to the download. "Like" his posts and support! This is a fairly decent compromise as far as I'm concerned regarding the Meteor Showers as they are implemented now. Off in the more standard planet biomes, on in the more exotic. Will give you a chance to experience meteors yet still give you a few safe places to build.

Mod Thread - http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/turn-off-meteor-showers.59450/#post-1602438

Meteor Showers On For:

• Moon
• Magma
• Tentacle
• Tundra
• Volcanic
• Barren
• Asteroidfield

Meteor Showers Off For:

• Arid
• Jungle
• Desert
• Forest
• Snow
• Grasslands

 

I should probably point out something.

Most planets are meant to be "throwaways".
That's why Starbound isn't very shy with having effects cause a lot of destruction.
You aren't meant to get too attached or build a lot on most planets.
(I do expect meteorites to get tweaked, but still)

Home planets are meant to be different in the full release.
They are meant to have special protections, devices for weather control, NPCs giving quests, an UFO for mass terraforming, etc.
You can read more about it from old blog posts.

In the current beta home planets don't have any of the home planet protection features.
That's why this effect that's very annoying in beta might not change a ton; the game is being balanced towards the full version where the protections exist.

My post isn't to say "lol don't post feedback", it's just to point out why this is happening.

 

They are meteorites, not meteors

Meteors would burn up in the atmosphere and only causes a cool light show to appear (falling stars!), meteorites continue after that and impact on the surface of a planet.

 

Having meteors showers on your home planet or on another is a good idea IF you can protect you or your buildings from it.

But I really like to see some of you taking a meteor right in your chests zone and your buildings, with your backpack full, and while you are underground, then you should understand why some of us are reporting this bug, not even raging or something, just reporting.

At the release who cares if we have protection against if they STILL hit you underground or on the top of your screen (so inside your house mostly), and how realistic is this?
The problem is not our feedback, the problem is that it's bugged for now, so we are reporting it, period.


Edit: Big thanks for the mod I will try this for sure

 

Earth has a gigantic moon that sweeps away lots of meteors helping protect the Earth and a nice giant planet Jupiter to sweep away many more and keep most of the asteroids from killing us all. Because of Jupiter most of the asteroids are in the nice asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Though we did have an asteroid mass extinction event and that blast in Russia recently so we shouldn't get complacent. We've had heaps of near-misses recently and so far we haven't made a way to protect ourselves.

More than that the Earth as we know it and the moon were created when two whole planets smashed into one another, so it was only through a catastrophic collision that we gained our shield from smaller collisions.

Also there's an hypothesis that these impacts spread life forms from world to world so life on earth may have come from an asteroid colliding with Mars and dragging life with it.