UniqueMeteorites 🌠
A Spigot/Paper 1.21 plugin that adds spectacular falling meteorites with custom loot and stunning visual effects!
✨ Features
🔥 Burning Meteorite - Spinning fire charge entity with massive particle trail
☁️ Giant Area Cloud - 4-block radius glowing orange cloud
🔥 Fire Trail - 10 burning entities trailing behind showing the path
📦 Animated Chest - Rises from underground with effects
💎 Custom Meteorite Loot - Space-themed items with unique names
⏱️ 45 Second Fall - Very slow! Plenty of time to watch
🌙 Auto Events - Every 3-4 nights automatically
🎮 Commands
/met test
Permission: meteor.test (default: op)
Spawns a meteorite near you. LOOK UP IMMEDIATELY! 👆
/met reload
Permission: meteor.reload (default: op)
Reloads the plugin configuration without restarting
💎 Meteorite Loot
All items are space-themed with custom names and lore:
Legendary (5%):
- ⭐ Meteorite Core - Nether Star (burning core of a fallen star)
- 🔥 Meteor Fragments - Fire Charges (burning pieces from space)
- 💎 Space Rock - Magma Blocks (solidified meteorite material)
- ✨ Cosmic Crystal - End Crystal (crystallized star essence)
Epic (15%):
- ✦ Stardust - Blaze Powder (fine powder from a meteor)
- ⭐ Space Dust - Glowstone Dust (luminous cosmic particles)
- ◆ Meteorite Scrap - Netherite Scrap (dense space metal)
Uncommon (30%):
- ◆ Cosmic Obsidian - Obsidian (hardened by space travel)
- ✦ Star Crystals - Prismarine Crystals (crystallized cosmic energy)
Common (50%):
- • Space Iron - Iron Ingots (metal from the meteorite)
Plus: Diamond block buried under the chest!
🎯 What You'll See
Spawn Alert:
- Dragon roar + Wither spawn sounds
- Title: "⭐ METEORITE! ⭐ LOOK UP NOW! 👆"
- Chat messages with emojis
45 Second Fall:
- Giant burning fire charge spinning through the sky
- Orange glowing cloud (4 blocks wide)
- 10 fire entities trailing behind in a line
- 2000+ particles per tick (flames, sparks, smoke, glow)
- Light blocks marking the path
- Atmospheric sounds (fire whooshing, crackling)
- Very slow fall - plenty of time to enjoy!
Impact:
- MASSIVE explosion with particles and sounds
- Crater formation with blackstone/cobblestone
- Diamond block buried in center
Chest Animation:
- Chest rises from underground over 1 second
- Glowing particles + amethyst chimes
- Firework burst when fully spawned
- Contains 4-8 meteorite items
⚙️ Configuration
Basic Settings:
# Event frequency (every 3-4 nights)
event:
min-nights-interval: 3
max-nights-interval: 4
# Fall speed (0.2 = 45 seconds)
meteorite:
movement-speed: 0.2
# Visual effects
effects:
particle-intensity: 40
sound-volume: 0.9
Customizable Meteorite Items:
All meteorite loot is fully customizable in config.yml!
Example from config:
loot:
legendary:
enabled: true
items:
- type: NETHER_STAR
amount: 1
name: "§6§l⭐ §6Meteorite Core §6§l⭐"
lore:
- "§7The burning core of a fallen star"
- "§eStill warm to the touch"
- "§5§oLegendary"
You can:
- ✅ Change item types (NETHER_STAR, FIRE_CHARGE, etc.)
- ✅ Customize amounts (use ranges like
3-7)
- ✅ Edit names with color codes
- ✅ Add custom lore
- ✅ Enable/disable entire rarity tiers
- ✅ Add more items to each tier
📥 Installation
- Download the JAR file
- Place in
plugins/ folder
- Restart server
- Done!
Requirements: Paper/Spigot 1.21 + Java 21
🐛 Troubleshooting
Can't see it?
- Look UP at the sky immediately!
- Spin in a circle while looking up
- Listen for dragon roar sound
- Try at night for best visibility
- Increase
particle-intensity in config
No chest?
- Wait 1 second after impact
- Look in the crater center
- Check ground is not bedrock
Lag?
- Reduce
particle-intensity to 20
- Set
light-trail: false
- Increase
movement-speed to 1.0
🎨 Technical
- Entities: 12 per meteorite (1 core + 1 cloud + 10 trail)
- Fall Time: 45 seconds (configurable - can make faster/slower)
- Performance: < 0.2 TPS impact
- Cleanup: Automatic entity/block removal
📝 Credits
Author: Flonxi
Version: 1.0
API: Paper/Spigot 1.21
Enjoy the meteor show! 🌠🔥✨
