Star Metal Won't spawn

[Aqur]

Spend a good few hours camping up north (nearby frozen slopes) for a few times
haven't seen a single star metal or meteor fall
how.

[saiyuk976]

Had them fall for me a fair few times while farming mounds of the dead for Dalisia Snowhunter and berserkers.
It's RNG though, so simply needs more time.
This was in Single Player

[kevink27]

Playing Singleplayer I take it? It should spawn, I usually just go up and run though Mounds of the dead and kill some wolves and other critters a little and I hear the meteor shower. Maybe you just don't wait around enough. No problems for me.

[Aqur]

Originally posted by kevink27:

Playing Singleplayer I take it? It should spawn, I usually just go up and run though Mounds of the dead and kill some wolves and other critters a little and I hear the meteor shower. Maybe you just don't wait around enough. No problems for me.

Coop, me and my friend spend hours wandering around the north and not one tiny little space rock showed up nor fell down and i know how they looked like

[Fast Johnny]

When playing CoOp or Single player, you have to remember that time is not persistent when you log off. On a regular server, time keeps ticking away, so meteor falls can happen while you are logged off and then you can find them laying around. In CoOp or SP, the chances of meteors falling, are only when you are logged on. In other words, it seems like they never fall, but that is because the time period is much smaller for that chance.

[Aqur]

I know but how is a good few hours not enough for it to spawn plus i've done this for a good few times

[kevink27]

Is your base up north? Mine is usually in the jungle, so I have some on foot travel time and have no idea how long I am playing before I head up there, just seems odd. I don't know of any mod that causes this problem offhand, don't know if you are using any mods. You are not the first person to state not having star metal spawns though.

[Dread Swoop]

From the wiki (which may or may not be old info, they may have messed around with it in Siptah):

The following was concluded from looking at the DevKit:

Every 1800 seconds (30 minutes) a cycle starts (Chance To Spawn Timer)

Initially (i.e. after server restart) there is a 75% chance that a meteor shower will be triggered (Chance to Trigger Meteor).

If there is a meteor shower, the next shower comes at least 3 hours later (so in the 6th cycle) with a 2% chance for a shower, as the chance for the next meteor shower is set to 0% and the cooldown to 5 cycles (Meteor Cooldown). After that there can be a potential shower every 30 minutes and every unsuccessful attempt increases the chance for the next round by 2%.

If no meteor shower triggers then the chance for the next cycle is increased by 2% (Chance Increment) and the Cooldown (Meteor Cooldown) is reduced by 1.

The number of meteorites varies from 5 to 15 and depends on the following calculation:
"maximum number (Meteor Shower Max Count) + random number (Meteor Shower Random Amount)"

where the random number is actually a range from which a value is randomly selected. The range in an actual case is -5 to +5, so it can happen that less than the max value (Meteor Shower Max Count) is spawned. This complicates the logic a lot.

[kevink27]

Originally posted by Dread Swoop:

From the wiki (which may or may not be old info, they may have messed around with it in Siptah):

The following was concluded from looking at the DevKit:

Every 1800 seconds (30 minutes) a cycle starts (Chance To Spawn Timer)

Initially (i.e. after server restart) there is a 75% chance that a meteor shower will be triggered (Chance to Trigger Meteor).

If there is a meteor shower, the next shower comes at least 3 hours later (so in the 6th cycle) with a 2% chance for a shower, as the chance for the next meteor shower is set to 0% and the cooldown to 5 cycles (Meteor Cooldown). After that there can be a potential shower every 30 minutes and every unsuccessful attempt increases the chance for the next round by 2%.

If no meteor shower triggers then the chance for the next cycle is increased by 2% (Chance Increment) and the Cooldown (Meteor Cooldown) is reduced by 1.

The number of meteorites varies from 5 to 15 and depends on the following calculation:
"maximum number (Meteor Shower Max Count) + random number (Meteor Shower Random Amount)"

where the random number is actually a range from which a value is randomly selected. The range in an actual case is -5 to +5, so it can happen that less than the max value (Meteor Shower Max Count) is spawned. This complicates the logic a lot.

Yeah, that sounds like a much needed change - Not. Thanks again for Funcom.

[Aqur]

My base is usually grounded near New Asagarth beside the mammoth spawns, walking to the very north takes abt 4-5 min i think.
I do have mods btw but I don't think any of those mods will make star metal not spawn

[kevink27]

Judging from what Dead Swoop posted, Funcom's been at it again. Things maybe a lot rarer now with Siptah added. Exiles map Early Access continued.

[Aqur]

Nice,having progression stuck because devs thought tweaking the vital resources to progress's spawn rate to getting a knife from csgo chests level is fine

[Narelle]

There is a rather simple solution for single-player. Activate admin, use cloak and god modes to not aggro stuff and take damage. Go in the meteor area, press INSERT or tilde key to get the admin console, type /slomo 100 and wait. Once the meteors fall, type /slomo 1 for the game to resume its normal speed, remove god and cloak and go harvest some star metal.

If you are using Pippi mod, they have an admin command to force a meteor shower /meteor amongst other very useful features.

[kevink27]

Originally posted by Narelle:

There is a rather simple solution for single-player. Activate admin, use cloak and god modes to not aggro stuff and take damage. Go in the meteor area, press INSERT or tilde key to get the admin console, type /slomo 100 and wait. Once the meteors fall, type /slomo 1 for the game to resume its normal speed, remove god and cloak and go harvest some star metal.

If you are using Pippi mod, they have an admin command to force a meteor shower /meteor amongst other very useful features.

No, it's just more Funcom BS. Thinking they always have to change something just to make some people happy and piss off others. I don't want to use admin mode. You always want to take up for this bunch of Dev's, but I am sick and tired of this crap now. How many years is it gonna take to get a finished game out of these people.

[Dread Swoop]

Just for clarification, that information I listed was around pre Isle of Siptah. Funcom may have changed how star metal meteors works since, but the wiki does not reflect it.