Meteorite

Meteorite
	Standard ingot
Properties
Type	Alloy
Made With/By	Other
Difficulty of Production	Easy-Medium
Exists in Reality	No
Atomic Number	N/A

This page refers to the material, to see the mechanic that causes falling rocks from space to spawn (primarily made of this material), see: Meteors.

Meteorite is a special material with many niche uses. It is a naturally occurring "alloy" that can be made artificially, similarly to Starmetal.

Meteorite has two forms: an extremely hard but very brittle "raw" or "natural" form (fragments), as well as a refined form (ingots, etc.), which is considerably more durable, possibly being on a par with desh.

Below is a list of all Meteorite-related items and blocks:

Chiseled Meteor Pillar
Cracked Meteor Bricks
Forged Meteorite Ingot
Meteor Bricks
Meteorite Blade
Meteorite Block
Meteorite Fragment
Meteorite Ingot
Meteorite Powder
Meteorite Sword
Meteor Pillar
Mossy Meteor Bricks
Polished Meteor Block
Tiny Pile of Meteorite Powder

Production

Meteorite fragments can be acquired from fallen Meteors or Meteor Dungeons.

Meteorite Blocks can be found Meteors or in structures such as the crashed Spaceship.

Meteorite Powder can be conceived by mixing Iron, Copper, Lithium and Quartz powders together in a crafting table (the recipe is shapeless), or by shredding the various decorative meteorite blocks such as polished meteorite or meteorite cobblestone, all netting 1 meteorite powder excluding the previously mentioned Meteorite Block which nets 10 Meteorite Powder.

Meteorite Powder can be combined with Cobalt to create a Meteorite Ingot

The said ingots can be turned into Forged Meteorite Ingots by smelting them via a furnace, then combining them in an anvil while they're still hot.

Next up are Meteorite Blades, which are produced using the same method as described above, except with forged ingots instead of regular ones.

Uses

Meteorite Fragments can be used to make the various block forms of meteorite excluding the Meteorite Block, all of which have high blast resistance.

Meteorite Ingots are mainly used in the production of Starmetal but are also an intermediary step to the creation of Forged Meteorite Ingots, which are vital in the process of creating Fau Armor, the Large Silver Key, Meteorite Blades, and the Crucible weapon.

Meteorite Blades are used to make the Meteorite Sword, A blade that progressively gets stronger through convoluted upgrades inside nearly the entire breadth of machines provided in the mod.

Gallery

Hot ingot
Forged ingot
Hot forged ingot
Blade
Hot blade
Powder
Tiny powder
Fragment

Trivia

Since all the blocks only usually drop 1 fragment regardless of how many fragment equivalents they're made of, we can assume that raw meteorite is extremely brittle.
- Cobalt seems to fix this issue, though it greatly reduces the volume of the overall material to merely one ingot, possibly increasing density,
  - Since full blocks blasted with cobalt only make ingots and those ingots may be fused together, forged meteorite is presumably extraordinarily dense.