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[breadbocks]

Are all orbs smashed forever and no new ones happen?

To put it simply, yes. But you can always generate a new world to get more meteorites and vilethorns.

Does smashing additional orbs reset the roll for a meteor or does it summon a meteor if any of the rolls succeeded? The wiki claims a 50% chance, but 6 orbs later I've only had one meteor.

Umm... What? There is no roll.

OK! It works like this.

There are two Booleans  involved in orb smashing (not actual names, because I don't know them.) IsOrbSmashed=0, and IsMeteorSummoned=0. That's what they look like at the start of a new world. Now, what happens when you break an orb, is is checks both of those and if they are 0, makes them 1. Simple, right? Key phrase: Makes them one. You can't stack broken orbs and get half a dozen meteors all at once. When a meteor would fall (Midnight, I believe.) it checks IsMeteorSummoned to see if it's 1. If it is, it drops a meteor, and resets it to zero. IsOrbSmashed is never reset, but is used in a check at 4AM along with character's max health and a random chance to see if an invasion will come.

[Shadowlord]

When a meteor would fall (Midnight, I believe.) it checks IsMeteorSummoned to see if it's 1. If it is, it drops a meteor, and resets it to zero.

No, there's a 50% chance of dropping a meteor. It's not guaranteed to happen. If it doesn't drop, it still sets it to 0, and there's no point in waiting around forever for it to happen if nothing drops. If you don't break any other orbs, it will still continue to roll for the random chance of dropping meteors once each day (which only starts happening after an orb has been broken).

[Lightning4]

Sounds like a lot of refining being done. Looks good.

But not enough new stuff to get me playing again just yet.

I'm not sure if that's the complete patch notes. There's probably more than that, though a lot of this update will be focused on gameplay balance.

[Wolf Tengu]

When this likely happen?

[Frumple]

The patch will be out some Tuesday, unless development completely halts.

_{In other words, no one really knows. It'll be out when it's out.}

[Neonivek]

Lava Slimes will no longer burst into a pool of lava when killed

Don't get me wrong I support this (As Lava Slimes put a time limit on hell) but I am a bit surprised it was done.

[SirAaronIII]

Yeah, seeing as it's in the name and all. Maybe they'll make it do something else that makes you regret killing them in the wrong place, like exploding a la grenade for no tile damage.

[Micro102]

I can't decide when to start playing again. When is the next major update?

[Trapezohedron]

Are all orbs smashed forever and no new ones happen?

To put it simply, yes. But you can always generate a new world to get more meteorites and vilethorns.

Does smashing additional orbs reset the roll for a meteor or does it summon a meteor if any of the rolls succeeded? The wiki claims a 50% chance, but 6 orbs later I've only had one meteor.

The first orb you smash raises a flag that allows a meteorite to fall down. The next orb doesn't call any meteorites, and the third orb summons the eater of worlds, still no meteorite. After the third orb, the amount of orbs smashed flag is reset, setting it back to zero. Then, when you smash an orb (the fourth) again, it summons another meteorite. Repeat ad infinitum.

[Wolf Tengu]

I haven't had a demolitionist in forever. Maybe I should make another extra room.

[Trapezohedron]

I haven't had a demolitionist in forever. Maybe I should make another extra room.

Make sure to light it up too.

[PTTG??]

Meteor Heads!

They come in waves and do 50 damage a hit! The worst part is I trekked to the edge of the map to get to the orbs, smashed one, then had the meteor land just as far away, IN the jungle. Under a flying island. Next to the corruption.

Harpies + Heads + Bats + Eaters.

I really hate flying things.

[Urist Imiknorris]

40 damage/hit. Just enough to make you want to be prepared when you find it. Also, meteor heads should override any other spawns.

EDIT: Neonivek: The ones that appear at meteor impact sites and harrass you while you mine.

[Neonivek]

40 damage/hit. Just enough to make you want to be prepared when you find it.

What Meteor heads?

[Nadaka]

I have not played it much but I spawned a new world after the herb update.

Got kinda lucky, there was a floating island right over my spawn point I saw as I was building the house and another one about 20 tiles over a nearby hill. I got enough silver to armor up plus a couple goodies without even having to dig.