How Much do meteor showers move?

[Uncrushed]

I've recently been playing on a blank world - no trees, rocks, grass, or other resources, so I rely pretty heavily on tumbleweeds.  I set the world-gen to "small" and I only got one meteor field, which looks square or rectangular on the map.  But in a normal world, it can be hard to see where these things are.

My question is, how much do they move, from shower to shower?  I had one time where we based in Pig King and meteor showers barely touched the deciduous forest, until one time they took out half the base when they moved like 5 or 7 tiles toward us.  So I think they do move.  Does anyone know the limits of their movement?

[Radicaljoe]

This is essentially the most debated game mechanic. However, they do not move. They have a radius and as days progress they simply get more frequent. more frequent means that it has a higher chance to spawn a meteor on the edges of the radius, making it seem like it has grown.

[Pe Dabliu]

I made a square arround my meteor field to understand where was safe. In the end, it felt life it was double the size of the original area. So I would just say, settle fae away and when you think you're safe, go a little further to be sure 

[Green Reptile]

Theres a prefab called “meteor_spawner” which are found around those barren fields, which are probably where meteors spawn from.

they’re invisible but you can use “c_gonext(“meteor_spawner”)” to teleport yourself to their location and mark the point with discernable turf

next is the range: A developer once said on a post that meteors fall within a 15 turf radius from their origin, and from personal testing it seems to match the area where meteors generally falls.

[Dwight34]

As others have said, they don't technically move, but their radius is insane. Just build very far away from them.

[Semind]

So it was actually incorrect info that the meteor field grows in the first 150-ish days? It's actually just meteor frequency going up meaning there's more frequent drops at the edge of the range?

[Mike23Ua]

53 minutes ago, Semind said:

So it was actually incorrect info that the meteor field grows in the first 150-ish days? It's actually just meteor frequency going up meaning there's more frequent drops at the edge of the range?

Technically.. yes, but if your on Xbox, PlayStation or Switch & aren’t breaking the game apart on PC to read its code: It’s still going to give off the “Illusion” that meteors actually do spread.

[Maxil20]

56 minutes ago, Semind said:

So it was actually incorrect info that the meteor field grows in the first 150-ish days? It's actually just meteor frequency going up meaning there's more frequent drops at the edge of the range?

Technically, it's not even the frequency that increases. It's mostly due to the fact that instead of the meteors striking evenly around the zone they are in, they are much, much more likely to strike in the "middle" of the field then striking at the edges, giving the illusion the field increases over time due to it not being evenly distributed.