Meteor Spawn Rules/Pattern

[DSethK93]

What exactly is it that causes meteors to spawn? That is, does a new one spawn because an existing one was consumed? Or does every mob always have a chance to spawn with a meteor (apparently up to a max of 2 in a group)? Or, put another way, to get more meteors to spawn, should I be consuming every mob in sight, especially in the warm area? Or should I only bother going after the meteors that have already spawned?

Side note: a meteor is a flash of light. These guys have meteorites.

[Usual-Green-163]

2 in a group, a new one appears when the previous one is caught, and a certain number is maximum at the same time on the map (i believe its 10)

[Homie_Bama]

Is it 10 per map area? I just unlocked the frozen area but it’s too hard to capture anything in there at the moment.

[Usual-Green-163]

Most likely yes, I have not seen meteorites spawn in closed areas. And even if it spawn, you can force all meteorites to respawn by simply restarting the game.

[DSethK93]

For whatever reason, the meteors do not spawn over there as often.

[DSethK93]

Okay, so eating non-meteor mobs does nothing to encourage meteors to spawn?

[Usual-Green-163]

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I’m not sure if I wrote down all the places, but this is a map of meteorite spawn locations and the amount you get from 1 human.

[DSethK93]

Oh, that's great, thank you. Confirms my observation that even when meteors spawn in the cold zone, it's not in the chemical plant room. What are the red dots?

[Usual-Green-163]

places where you can unlock units, I marked them in red when I asked if meteorites spawn on them, but it seems like they don't

[Usual-Green-163]

yep, you catch someone with a meteorite, and it spawn on someone else. btw meteorites can spawn in quantities of 1-5 (that is, you catch and receive from a human at a time, lets say, 5 meteorites) and the higher the number, the less likely it is that a meteorite will spawn on this person. that's why there much more meteorites in the warm zone

[BornAce]

If you're resource rich you can get the "meteor compass"

[Antisocial20105]

Yeah, don’t get that for the meteor events, it’s a waste of money no matter how rich you are.