Meteorites

Every so often, something burns through the sky.

A meteorite streaks down in fire and smoke, slams into the ground near a player, and leaves a smoking crater. Dig into it and you'll find a core full of ore: iron, copper, gold, raw iron blocks, and — if you're lucky — diamonds and ancient debris.

It turns a quiet server into one where people drop what they're doing and race to the crash site.

How it works

• Every 30–60 minutes (configurable), a meteorite lands 48–128 blocks from a random online player.
• Everyone gets a warning in chat when it appears in the sky, and the coordinates when it lands.
• The crater has a shell of blackstone, basalt, magma and obsidian around an ore-rich core.

It won't wreck your base

• No impacts near world spawn (96 blocks by default).
• No impacts near chests, furnaces, beds or any other block entity — a simple way to avoid player builds.
• No impacts right on top of players, and never on water or in the Nether.
• No fire. Bedrock and other unbreakable blocks are never replaced.
• Prefer no terrain damage at all? Set breakBlocks to false.

Commands (operators only)

• /meteor — status and time until the next one
• /meteor now [player] — drop one now
• /meteor on | off — automatic meteorites
• /meteor interval <min> <max> — minutes between meteorites

Settings

config/meteorites.json — interval, distance, spawn protection, base check radius, explosion power, core size, and the chance of every ore.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.21.11 · Fabric Loader 0.19.3+ · Fabric API · Java 21 Server-side — players join with a normal client. Also works in singleplayer.