# Meteorite Event Guide: How to Find It and Farm Fragments

How the Meteorite Event works in Palworld: the meteor marker on your compass, the 180-minute default timer and how to shorten it, mining the 2,500 HP rock, the Xenovader and Xenogard spawns that drop Meteorite Fragments, and every recipe fragments feed.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/guides/meteorite-event-guide
Updated: 2026-08-20

A Meteorite Event drops a lump of space rock somewhere near you, and cracking it open is the cleanest way to stock [Meteorite Fragments](https://palworld-db.com/item/MeteorDrop). This guide covers the marker that tells you one has landed, the timer that controls how often they fall, the two Pals that turn up alongside the rock, and every recipe the fragments feed.

## Meteorite Event at a Glance

| Detail | What to know |
| --- | --- |
| Event marker | A meteor icon on the map and on your compass bar |
| Where it lands | Randomly, near wherever you happen to be standing |
| Default timer | 180 minutes, shared with Supply Drops |
| Meteorite HP | 2,500 HP with 4 defence, and it counts as stone |
| Work needed | Mining, rank 1 — the lowest rank in the game |
| Base Pals | Any Mining Pal can chip at it if it lands inside your base radius |
| Main drop | [Meteorite Fragment](https://palworld-db.com/item/MeteorDrop) |
| Pals it brings | [Xenovader](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenovader) [Xenogard](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenogard) |

The two numbers that matter most here are 2,500 and rank 1. A meteorite has the same effective toughness as a big ore node, so nothing exotic is required to break it — a [Stone Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_00) you unlocked at technology level 1 will get through it, just slowly. The 180-minute figure is the one worth changing, because on default settings you will see maybe four or five of these across a long play session, and roughly half of those will be Supply Drops instead.

## How to Find a Meteorite Event

There is no hunting involved — the game tells you. When one fires, a meteor icon appears on your map and on the compass strip at the top of the screen, and the rock lands somewhere in your general area rather than at a fixed spot on Palpagos. Because the landing site is random, our [Palworld interactive map](https://palworld-db.com/map) cannot pin these the way it pins ore nodes or chests; the compass marker is your only lead.
- Watch the compass bar. The meteor icon shows up there before you think to open the map.
- Open the map and ride straight at the icon. It stays put until you clear the rock.
- Clear old markers before farming more. Uncollected events stack up on the map and make it hard to tell which meteorite is the fresh one.
- Bring a mount. The landing site is near you, not next to you, and the rock does not despawn on a short timer.

### Change How Often Meteorites Fall

Meteorites and Supply Drops run off a single World Settings value, and every difficulty preset ships it at the same number. Dial it down and both start firing constantly; there is no way to ask for meteorites only, so expect a lot of crates mixed in with your space rocks.

| World preset | Meteorite / Supply Drop interval | Base raids enabled |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Easy | 180 minutes | Yes |
| Normal | 180 minutes | Yes |
| Hard | 180 minutes | Yes |
| Hardcore | 180 minutes | Yes |

The slider bottoms out at 1 minute, which is the setting to use if you are farming fragments deliberately rather than playing normally. Since the same value governs crates, it is also the fastest way to farm the [Palworld supply drop loot tables](https://palworld-db.com/supply-drops) — all eight regional crate pools roll on that same timer, so a low interval feeds two farms at once.

## How to Mine a Meteorite

Walk up and swing. The rock is a mining node with 2,500 HP and 4 defence, so tool damage is what decides whether this takes ten seconds or a minute. Anything with Mining suitability works, which means base workers count too — if a meteorite happens to land inside your base radius, assign a Mining Pal and it gets stripped without you lifting a finger.

| Tool | Base Attack | Durability | Tech level |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Plasma Multicutter](https://palworld-db.com/item/LaserMiningTool) | 250 | 850 | 54 |
| [Pal Metal Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Steal) | 120 | 400 | 44 |
| [Refined Metal Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_02) | 60 | 300 | 34 |
| [Metal Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_01) | 30 | 250 | 11 |
| [Stone Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_00) | 20 | 150 | 1 |

The [Plasma Multicutter](https://palworld-db.com/item/LaserMiningTool) hits more than twice as hard as the best pickaxe and carries over twice the durability, so a single one covers a whole night of meteorite farming without a repair stop. It is a level 54 unlock costing 4 technology points, though, so for most of the run the [Pal Metal Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Steal) at level 44 is the realistic answer. Below that, the [Refined Metal Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_02) at 60 attack is a big enough jump over the 30-attack [Metal Pickaxe](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_01) that it is worth the two points on its own.

## Pals That Land With the Meteorite

Two Pals arrive with the rock, and both hand over fragments on death at a flat 100% rate — no bad rolls, no fishing for a rare drop. Neither of them has a standing wild spawn anywhere on the map, so meteorites and base raids are the only two places you will ever meet them. Kill everything that lands before you start mining; the Pals are usually worth more fragments than the rock.

| Pal | Element | Meteorite Fragments | Drop rate | Why it matters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Xenovader](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenovader) | Dark | 3–10 | 100% | Spawns in packs, so the small per-kill count adds up fastest |
| [Xenogard](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenogard) | Dragon | 5–12 | 100% | Best haul of the two, and it also drops 3–5 High Quality Pal Oil |
| [Xenolord](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenolord) | Dark / Dragon | 7–15 | 100% | Biggest single haul, but it is a summoned raid boss rather than an event spawn |

### Xenovader

Xenovader is the small one, number 145 in the Paldeck, a Dark type that attacks on sight and is nocturnal — so a meteorite that lands after dark tends to come with more of them awake and aggressive. Its 125 shot attack is well ahead of its 100 melee, which tells you how it fights: it wants range, and it is squishy at 90 HP and 85 defence if you close the gap. As a worker it is mediocre, with Lumbering 3 and Transporting 2, but its partner skill Unknown Invader is genuinely useful — it boosts the damage of the last bullet in your magazine from 100% up to 160% at max level, which pairs beautifully with a one-shot launcher.

### Xenogard

Xenogard is the payoff spawn. It is a Dragon type with 110 HP and 130 defence — the tankiest thing you will meet at a meteorite — and it drops 5 to 12 fragments plus High Quality Pal Oil every time. What makes it worth catching rather than farming is Mining 4, which is a high mining rank and turns it into a base worker that chews through ore, and by extension through any future meteorite that lands on your doorstep. Its partner skill, Unknown Intruder, raises your equipped weapon's damage by 10% and scales to 35% at max level.

It is also a ground mount once you build the [Xenogard Saddle](https://palworld-db.com/item/SkillUnlock_WhiteAlienDragon) at technology level 41, for 20 Leather, 30 Meteorite Fragments and 50 [Paldium Fragments](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pal_crystal_S). At 1,200 sprint speed it ranks 40th out of the 115 rideable Pals on our [Palworld mount speed rankings](https://palworld-db.com/mount-speeds) — solidly mid-pack, so treat it as a worker you can also ride rather than a serious travel option.

## Farm Fragments Without Waiting for an Event

This is the part most meteorite guides miss. Both event Pals also turn up as attackers in Snowfields base raids, always in the third wave and always at level 23 to 26, which means a base built in the snow region is a fragment farm that comes to you on its own schedule. The squads scale with your progress, and the top-tier version brings eight fragment-droppers per raid.

| Raid group | Base grade | Wave | Xenogard | Xenovader | EXP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Herd of Violent Wild Pals | 21–40 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5,575 |
| Herd of Ferocious Wild Pals | 41–60 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 25,350 |
| Herd of Extremely Ferocious Wild Pals | 61–80 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 106,470 |

Run the numbers on the top row and a single Extremely Ferocious raid is worth roughly 30 to 61 fragments before you count the crates, on top of 106,470 EXP for winning the fight. The catch is that the attackers arrive at level 23 to 26 while your base grade is 61 or higher, so by the time you unlock that raid tier the fight itself is trivial — it is close to free money. The full attacker lists for every region live on our [Palworld base raids page](https://palworld-db.com/raids).

The third source is [Xenolord](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenolord), which hands over 7 to 15 fragments per kill, the largest single haul in the game. It is a summoned raid boss rather than something you stumble into, so it is a burst of fragments rather than a farm — see [how to get Xenolord and the slab locations](https://palworld-db.com/guides/xenolord-raid-guide) for the summoning materials, and [how to beat the Xenolord raid boss](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-beat-xenolord-raid-boss) for the fight itself.

## What Meteorite Fragments Are Used For

Fragments are a stone-class material that stacks to 9,999 and weighs 3 each, so a big haul is heavy but never runs out of room. Nine recipes want them, and they split cleanly into cheap ones that ask for 10 and the launcher recipes that ask for hundreds.

| Craft | Fragments | Other materials | Output |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Meteorite Ammo](https://palworld-db.com/item/MeteorBullet) | 3 | None | 10 rounds |
| [Ring of Ground Resistance](https://palworld-db.com/item/Accessory_EarthResist_1) | 10 | 20 Ingot, 20 Bone, 30 Paldium Fragment | 1 |
| [Ground Support Whistle](https://palworld-db.com/item/Otomo_ElementBoost_Earth_1) | 10 | 20 Ingot, 20 Horn, 2 Ancient Civilization Parts | 1 |
| [Selyne Saddle](https://palworld-db.com/item/SkillUnlock_MoonQueen) | 10 | 20 Leather, 30 Plasteel, 60 Paldium Fragment | 1 |
| [Anubis's Talisman](https://palworld-db.com/item/Otomo_DFEarth_ElementBoost_1) | 10 | 20 Refined Ingot, 30 Bone, 10 Ancient Civilization Parts | 1 |
| [Xenogard Saddle](https://palworld-db.com/item/SkillUnlock_WhiteAlienDragon) | 30 | 20 Leather, 50 Paldium Fragment | 1 |
| [Xenolord Saddle](https://palworld-db.com/item/SkillUnlock_DarkMechaDragon) | 30 | 30 Leather, 50 Dark Fragment, 200 Paldium Fragment | 1 |
| [Meteor Launcher](https://palworld-db.com/item/Launcher_Meteor) | 100 | 30 Refined Ingot, 20 Paldium Fragment, 5 Corrosive Solvent | 1 |
| [Meteor Launcher (Schematic 4)](https://palworld-db.com/item/Launcher_Meteor_5) | 200 | 60 Refined Ingot, 40 Paldium Fragment, 10 Corrosive Solvent | 1 |

The three saddles are the reason most players farm fragments at all — you cannot ride [Selyne](https://palworld-db.com/pal/selyne), [Xenogard](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenogard) or [Xenolord](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenolord) without spending 10, 30 and 30 respectively. [Anubis's Talisman](https://palworld-db.com/item/Otomo_DFEarth_ElementBoost_1) is the standout accessory in the list because it stacks a Ground damage bonus onto one of the strongest early Handiwork Pals, and it only wants 10. Everything else on the cheap end is a rounding error once you have a Snowfields base pulling raids.

There is one non-recipe use that is easy to miss: a fragment is packed with Paldium, and dropping it into a [Crusher](https://palworld-db.com/structures) pulls that Paldium back out as [Paldium Fragments](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pal_crystal_S). The Crusher is a level 8 unlock costing 2 points, built from 50 Wood, 20 Stone and 10 Paldium Fragments, and it needs a Pal with Watering to spin the turbine. It is rarely worth it — the map holds [711 Paldium Ore nodes](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=res_paldiumore) and mining those is far faster — but if you are sitting on a thousand spare fragments with every saddle already built, the Crusher is where they go.

## Meteor Launcher: The Big Fragment Sink

Unlocking the Meteor Launcher at technology level 38 for 3 points also unlocks its ammo in the same node, and that ammo is the most fragment-efficient thing in the game: 3 fragments make 10 rounds. The launcher itself is a single-shot weapon, so the magazine number below is not a typo.

| Stat | Meteor Launcher | Meteor Launcher (Schematic 4) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Base Attack | 2,000 | 10,500 |
| Magazine | 1 | 1 |
| Durability | 300 | 450 |
| Meteorite Fragments to craft | 100 | 200 |
| Ammo | [Meteorite Ammo](https://palworld-db.com/item/MeteorBullet) | [Meteorite Ammo](https://palworld-db.com/item/MeteorBullet) |

Compared against the other rocket launchers only — never against a rifle, since those numbers are not on the same scale — the base Meteor Launcher's 2,000 attack is the weakest real entry in the class, sitting below the 3,000 of the Grenade Launcher and a long way under the 10,000 of a plain Rocket Launcher. What it has instead is timing: at technology level 38 it is the earliest damage-dealing launcher in the game, arriving 15 levels before the Grenade Launcher and 27 before the Rocket Launcher. The Schematic 4 version at 10,500 attack drags it right back into the pack, and its ammo still costs nothing but rocks.

> **Tip.** Pair the Meteor Launcher with a [Xenovader](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenovader) in your party. Unknown Invader boosts the damage of the last bullet in the magazine by up to 60%, and a single-shot launcher means **every** shot is the last bullet in the magazine. You farm the Pal and the weapon from the same event.

## Selyne and Xenolord Are Not Meteorite Spawns

Both get lumped in with the Meteorite Event because of the space theme and because their saddles want fragments, but neither one falls out of the sky. [Selyne](https://palworld-db.com/pal/selyne) lives at the World Tree, with 40 spawn spots in that region across both day and night — you can see the exact scatter on our [Selyne spawn map](https://palworld-db.com/map?pal=MoonQueen&region=tree). It is also the 13th-fastest ride of the 115 mounts in the game at 1,600 sprint, which is a far better reason to hunt it than the meteorite connection. For the boss version, see [how to beat hard mode Saya and Selyne](https://palworld-db.com/guides/hard-mode-saya-and-selyne).

[Xenolord](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenolord) is a summoned raid boss you bring to an altar with slabs, not something that lands nearby. It drops the most fragments of anything in the game at 7 to 15 per kill, and its own saddle at technology level 66 asks for 30 of them back, so clearing it a few times pays for riding it.

## Summary

Watch the compass for the meteor icon, drop the World Settings interval from 180 minutes toward 1 if you are farming on purpose, kill the [Xenovader](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenovader) pack and the [Xenogard](https://palworld-db.com/pal/xenogard) before you touch the rock, then break the 2,500 HP meteorite with whatever pickaxe you own. If you want fragments on tap instead of on a timer, build in the Snowfields and let base raids deliver eight fragment-droppers per wave.

## Related Guides

Hubs to keep open: [all Palworld guides](https://palworld-db.com/guides) · [Palworld interactive map](https://palworld-db.com/map) · [Palworld base raids](https://palworld-db.com/raids)
- [Palworld supply drop loot by region](https://palworld-db.com/supply-drops) — the other half of the event timer you just shortened
- [How to get Xenolord: slab locations and raid fight](https://palworld-db.com/guides/xenolord-raid-guide) — the biggest fragment drop in the game
- [How to beat the Xenolord raid boss](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-beat-xenolord-raid-boss) — weakness, team and drops
- [How to beat hard mode Saya and Selyne](https://palworld-db.com/guides/hard-mode-saya-and-selyne) — the World Tree boss fight
- [How to gather resources at the World Tree](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-gather-resources-at-the-world-tree) — where Selyne actually lives
- [How to farm Ore: best locations and mining site setup](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-farm-ore) — the same Mining Pals that break meteorites
- [How to get Ancient Civilization Cores and uses](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-ancient-civilization-cores) — the other material gating your accessories
- [How to get more technology points and ancient points](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-technology-points) — for the level 38 and 54 unlocks above


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