How to Clear Meteor Shower Debris Right
All credit goes to Pekiti!
I used to launch the rockets that attract Uranium/Iridium, then run around for ten or fifteen minutes hunting for all the glowy loot mixed in the rocks. Then I learned to launch them as night falls, because its easier to see the loot. Lately, I learned an ever better way though – after a meteor shower ends, just send up a rocket that triggers a fresh meteor shower (heat/pressure bonus rocket).
The game only allows a certain amount of debris in game at one time. As meteors from the second shower start impacting, debris (but not glowy loot) vanishes from the previous shower. If you have two launch pads (or multiple ‘meteor shelters’) set up, you can use this to your advantage, even if the first meteor shower is a random event. If the first shower is landed in area A (the high plains by the lake bed, for example), you can move to area B (the desert with the big wrecked ship for example) and trigger the second shower by launching a rocket (Meteor showers automatically target an area around the player, even if the player moves during the meteor shower).
When the meteors from the second shower stop hitting the ground, go back to area A and see all your loot waiting to be harvested in plain sight, with no piles of debris covering it up. Once you have it all picked up, drop off the loot and then go back to area B (where most of your debris will have thinned out by despawning over time).
This won’t work very well for Super Alloy showers (they despawn in 30-45 seconds) but the debris limits still apply, so if you’re into chasing SA meteors for the loot, after the fifth or sixth meteor hits the ground, you will see the debris from the first one vanish – chase them in order for maximum profit (although I think you’re crazy to be outside in an SA shower). For all other meteor showers (looking at you Osmium/Sulfur) then ‘send rocket to clear first shower with a second one’ works well, and can even be chained deliberately between two launch pads/areas.
Also, do not log out if you want the meteor loot. the loose loot is only there during the active session.
And if anyone is just starting out, those first two rockets are the way to get uranium and iridium until you have T2 miners…
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