So what just happened in my world?

[asb3pe]

I'm in Direwolf20 1.6 pack, Creative mode, Peaceful, flat world - just grass blocks basically.

I'm building a small house out of stone brick, when suddenly I hear an explosion sound - something just blew up! But what?

I fly outside and soon see a small crater in the dirt. Around the crater is a few blocks of stone and a few blocks of Moonstone Ore (? I think?) which says its from ArsMagica.

So... what just happened? What was that, and why?

 

[trajing]

Meteor Crash.
They're free ores but they can be annoying, so I would reccomend disabling it.

 

[Padfoote]

Ars Magica causes moonstone meteors to hit every once and a while. You can disable the block breaking in the config file.

 

[Tyrindor]

They won't break any player placed blocks with the default DW20 configs. I've had them land on my tree farms, iron tanks, my house. Not a single block destroyed.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

I wouldn't recommend outright removing them as its the only source of moonstone

Can you configure it to only hit certain biomes/dimensions?
-but toning down the random crators is probably a good idea- especially once you start chunkloading.

 

[Padfoote]

Can you configure it to only hit certain biomes/dimensions?
-but toning down the random crators is probably a good idea- especially once you start chunkloading.

I'm fairly certain the only config option on them is to disable their block breaking when they impact.

 

[Darkling54]

They seem annoying at first, but as you progress through your Ars Magica career you will begin to wish they crash nearby.

 

[belgabor]

You can also place a sigil of the lunar tides (I think), this will draw meteors in a large area to itself.

 

[Bomb Bloke]

They won't break any player placed blocks with the default DW20 configs. I've had them land on my tree farms, iron tanks, my house. Not a single block destroyed.

That's not strictly true; they don't care whether you put those grass blocks on your lawn yourself or whether worldgen did. They care about block type.

I assume they may also lead to the loss of items (eg torches) attached to the blocks they take out, though this may've been accounted for.