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 Block
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.

A Meteorite Block can be made in an assembly machine using exactly 100 meteorite fragments. It's vital to the creation of Meteorite Ingots, which can be made by blasting a Meteorite Block with a Cobalt ingot in a Blast Furnace.

The said ingots can be turned into Forged Meteorite Ingots by smelting them via a furnace, then combining them in a Tier 3+ 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.

A powder variant of meteorite exists, although it doesn't work like most other powders and can't be smelted into an ingot, similarly to Iodine Powder.

The Meteorite Powder can be conceived by mixing Uranium, Tungsten, Lithium, Iron, and Copper powders together in a crafting table (the recipe is shapeless), combining 9 Tiny Piles of Meteorite Powder or shredding any of the following blocks:

Polished Meteor Block (equals 1 powder)
Mossy Meteor Bricks (equals 1 powder)
Chiseled Meteor Pillar (equals 1 powder)
Meteor Pillar (equals 1 powder)
Cracked Meteor Bricks (equals 1 powder)
Meteor Bricks (equals 1 powder)
Meteor Block (equals 10 powder)

Uses

Meteorite Fragments can be used to make various block forms of meteorite, all of which have high blast resistance. Most importantly, they can be used to create Meteorite Blocks (100 fragments = 1 block).

Meteorite Blocks can be turned into Meteorite Ingots, otherwise they don't have any use aside from decoration. Meteorite Ingots can be used to craft a Meteorite Anvil, which can be done by combining a Tier 1 anvil with 10 Meteorite Ingots in a Tier 2+ anvil. They are also an intermediary step to the creation of Forged Meteorite Ingots, that are vital in the process of creating Fau Armor, certain armor inserts and Meteorite Blades.

Meteorite Blades are used to make the Meteorite Sword. A single Meteorite Blade is comprised of 2 Forged Meteorite Ingots, which is 4 Meteorite Ingots in total. Therefore, one would need 8 Meteorite Ingots (along with other ingredients) to conceive a Meteorite Sword. This is equivalent to 800 Meteorite Fragments.

Lastly, Meteorite Powder is primarily used to make Starmetal, but can also be acidized to make fragments, although it's best to acquire fragments straight from a fallen meteor.

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.