99 Nights in the Forest – Meteor Shower Update Guide: Obsidiron, Crap, Laser Cannon

This is your ultimate guide to the Meteor Shower update in 99 Nights in the Forest. We’re breaking down the new Meteor Crab enemy, how to forge the powerful Obsidiron resource, and the secrets to wielding the busted Laser Cannon.

Aight, so you’re chilling in 99 Nights in the Forest, surviving the night, when suddenly the game hits you with a message: “The sky is on fire.” Bet. You’re not about to die; you’re about to get rich. This is the trigger for the brand-new Meteor Shower event, a game-changing update that adds a ton of new content to explore.

This isn’t just a pretty light show. This update brings a new hostile mob, a whole new crafting resource with a unique forging process, and one of the most OP weapons in the game. This guide is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about this fire new content.

The Meteor Shower Event: How it Works

The event is super straightforward. When you see the “The sky is on fire” alert, it means meteors are about to rain down on the world.

• Find the Craters: These meteors will crash into the ground, creating Meteor Craters. These new, temporary locations are hotspots for all the new content.
• What’s Inside: Craters are packed with two new things: a new enemy, the Meteor Crab, and a new crafting resource, Obsidiron.

This is the new gameplay loop. When the sky burns, you drop what you’re doing and hunt for those craters.

New Enemy Breakdown: The Meteor Crab

Get ready to meet your new worst enemy. These things are hostile and spawn in groups, so don’t sleep on them.

• Where to Find: Meteor Crabs spawn from grey crystals with black smoke inside the Meteor Craters. They also hang out in the Anvil area after an event. You can expect 1-2 to pop out of each crystal.
• How to Fight: With only 75 HP, a single Meteor Crab is no big deal. The problem is, they’re never alone. They’re a swarm-type enemy, so the real challenge is dealing with a whole horde of them at once. AoE attacks are your best friend here.
• The Loot: Killing these creepy crawlies is totally worth it for the drops.
  • Morsel? (1-2): This is a new food item that looks like a regular Morsel but has a weird, purplish tint. Despite the sus name and appearance, it’s totally safe to eat. It has the exact same effect as a normal Morsel, cooked or raw.
  • Meteor Shard (0-1): A new crafting component.
  • Gold Shard (0-1): Free money is always a vibe.
• The Badge (“Exogeology”): If you’re an achievement hunter, there’s a new badge for killing 20 Meteor Crabs. Your reward is 5 Gold and a sick Meteor Lamp furniture item for your base.

Forging from the Stars: How to Process Obsidiron

This new resource, Obsidiron, isn’t just a simple ore you can mine. You have to put it through a whole multi-step process to get it ready for crafting, and it’s high-key one of the coolest mechanics in the game.

• Step 1: Mine the Ore: Look for Obsidiron deposits inside the Meteor Craters. Any axe will work to mine the raw ore.
• Step 2: Crack it Open: The raw ore is covered in useless rock. To get it off, just drop the ore on any solid ground to smash the outer layer off.
• Step 3: The Lava Bath: Now you’ve got the pure Obsidiron Ore. To smelt it, you need to find a lava pool. These can spawn in the Meteor Craters or in the Volcanic Biome. Just chuck the ore into the lava, and it will instantly turn into a Scalding Obsidiron Ingot.
• Step 4: The Cool Down: The scalding ingot is too hot to handle. The final step is to drop it into any body of water, like a pond or a lake. This will instantly cool it down, giving you the final product: a ready-to-use Obsidiron Ingot.

What’s it For? You can use your Obsidiron Ingots at the Meteor Tool Workshop. You can craft the powerful Obsidiron Boots, but the other pieces of the set, like the Obsidiron Body and Obsidiron Hammer, are rare drops that can only be found inside the Obsidiron Chest.

The Ultimate Weapon: The Laser Cannon

Tying into the whole extraterrestrial theme of the update is a new, ridiculously powerful weapon: the Laser Cannon. This thing is considered by many to be one of the best guns in the game, and for good reason.

• Why it Slaps: It deals a massive 70-80 damage in a huge Area of Effect (AoE), meaning it can hit a whole crowd of enemies at once. Its projectile speed is also instant.
• The Catch: This much power has a downside. The Laser Cannon has a long 7-8 second recharge time between shots. It runs on an Alien Tech Energy bar, and a single shot uses up 75% of your total energy.
• How to Get It: This weapon is an endgame item. You can find it as a rare drop in Broken UFOs, Mothership UFOs, or inside Alien Chests. The only guaranteed way to get one is to play as the Cyborg Class, who spawns with it.
• Pro-Tip for Using It: Because of its long cooldown, you can’t use the Laser Cannon as your main weapon. The best strat is to kite a huge horde of enemies into a tight group, hit them with one massive blast from the Laser Cannon to wipe out most of them, and then switch to another weapon to finish off any survivors while it recharges.

And that’s everything you need to know about the Meteor Shower update. Now get out there, hunt some space crabs, and forge some star-metal.