Oh My, Meteors! - A meteorites mod

Add _spice_ to your world, with giant peppers of molten (or frozen!) rock that fall from the sky!

This mod adds meteors, chunks of rock that randomly fall from the sky every now and then, exploding on impact and leaving useful resources in the impact craters they make. The explosions are even better than vanilla's ones!

You will be able to craft lasers to defend yourself from the destructive power of these touchy sky rocks, or maybe you could find some cuteness inside some them! Meow!

Video showcase of version 0.1.0 of the mod by Boodlyneck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWCvP63pooQ

This mod is extremely configurable, meaning that you can adjust it however you like. Would you like more metors at night? Cool! Would like them not to explode anything? Done! And a lot of other settings!

Inspired by the old meteor mods and commissioned by SlayerTheChikken

The best way to enjoy this mod is with other people on a server, so you can use the code EMALIGHTDEV on Nodecraft for discount!

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Feature list

Meteor sizes

Meteors can spawn in a variety of different sizes, the bigger the size the bigger the damage and the "structure" that will be left behind. You can adjust which size of meteors is able to spawn and how frequently the meteors spawn.

Customizable meteors

You can add your own meteor structures using a datapack, like the example one! You can specify in which size category your structure can be spawned, and if it's special or not. (special ones have a lower chance of appearing). They are NBT structure files, like the ones from the Structure Block. See example datapack

Lasers blocks

They are used to defend your base from the falling meteorites, by shooting a laser at the meteor and destroying it while midair

There are two tiers of lasers:

• The basic one has a shorter, but still very considerable range by default (you can change it in the config file!). It also has a loger cooldown time (3s by default, you can even disable it all together) and won't be able to destroy meteors past a certain size (up to sizes that are 1/3 smaller than the biggest, configurable too)
• The advanced laser, bigger area coverage, shorter cooldown time and can destroy every type of laser. You will however need to gather some meteorich chunks to craft meteoric alloy in order to power up your basic laser to this advanced version

You can interact with the lasers using a Focusing Lenses item to make them display the area that they are currently covering. When a meteor hits this area the laser activates and explodes the meteor.

Items

This mod also adds a few items, Meteoric Chunks which can be obtained when breaking (without Silk Touch) the Meteoric Rock that spawns when meteors explode on land. This can be tuned into 9 raw iron or used to craft Meteoric Alloy. You will need to combine 2 Meteoric Chunks with 2 Iron Ingots to obtain 2 of the alloy, which you can then use in the crafting for the Advanced Laser. Then we have the Focusing Lenses, which are used in the crafting of the two lasers. They require lime glass, amethyst, and quartz.

Meteoric Rock block (1.5.0+)

Now the meteor entity and the meteoric rocks have 3 stages of texture: HOT MID and NORMAL, with the latter being the usual one. The meteoric rock now starts in the HOT state, and degrades all the way to NORMAl with time, cooling down. When HOT it damages players each time like a magma block, when MID it does only sometimes, and NORMAL does nothing.

Using snowballs on the block will make it tick down one state, while using a flint and steel will make it go up in hotness. You can make a state permanent by using an Echo Shard on the block.

Meteor structure - Customizable meteors!

The ones that spawn when a meteor explodes. They are located in the folder /data/ohmymeteors/structure(_s_ if below mc1.21) and you can customize them using a datapack. They are the same files that you get out of the Structure Block in vanilla. From version 1.2.0 there is an easier way to add custom meteors with a command, see more below in the command section!

And an example datapack is located here. If you want to remove default structures from spawning, you can add a structure file (copy one of the default ones for instance) and name it ignore_<nameofthestructuretoremvoe>.nbt, or if you want to ignore all of the use ignoredefault.nbt.

These structures can also contain entities, like the:

Meteor cat