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Conan Exiles

Star Metal Ore - Meteor Shower Locations, Uses & More

By
Seren Morgan-Roberts

This page is your number one guide for all things Star Metal in Conan Exiles. From Meteor Shower locations to Boss drops to crafting "Star Metal Bar" iconStar Metal Bars, we’ve got you covered. Learn how to easily farm Star Metal and how to use it to make Star Metal bars that can then be used to make powerful gear.

Meteor showers are a short lived event but the smoke trails from the falling meteors are hard to miss!

How to Farm Star Metal Ore: Meteor Shower Locations

"Star Metal Ore" iconStar Metal Ore can be obtained from either dismantling weapons and items dropped by certain enemies or by mining the meteors that drop during meteor shower events. Meteor showers only occur in certain areas though and they’re not exactly the most common event either, with one typically happening once an hour.

A Meteor Shower event is quite obvious when it is happening, but it’s also short-lived so you’ll need to make sure to keep your eyes to the sky! You’ll see a series of huge cloud plumes plummeting from the sky. As soon as you see them, you’ll be able to head over to the direction of the shower, to find shiny dark metal rocks on the ground. The number of meteors in a shower varies from around 5 to 15 and so you have a good chance of being able to mine lots of Star Metal from a single meteor shower event!

That being said, Meteor Showers only happen in certain locations, which we have outlined below:

Exiled Lands: Meteor Showers

Meteor Showers will only occur in the snowy region in the Northwest. Your best bet is to head northeast of the "Mounds of the Dead" iconMounds of the Dead to the area around "Frostneedle Forest" iconFrostneedle Forest and then set up a small camp to wait for the Meteor Shower.

(1 of 3) Keep an eye out for Meteors in the wintry mountains of the northern Exiled Lands!

Isle of Siptah: Meteor Showers

On the Isle of Siptah, Meteor Showers will only occur around The Tower at the center of the Isle. "The Tower" iconThe Tower is a hostile place and is also subjected to another event called Maelstrom, which makes enemies spawn from lightning. You may have a hard time setting up a base close to The Tower since there are so many enemies around!

On the Isle of Siptah, the meteors will fall near the central tower!

How to Mine Meteors

Once you’ve witnessed a meteor shower and found one on the ground, you’ll be able to mine it for some Star Metal! However, mining meteors to obtain Star Metal is no easy feat. Before you can even reach the star metal inside the meteor, you’ll need to destroy the dark metal exterior using some sort of explosive.

This could be an Explosive Jar, Exploding Trap, Explosive Arrow, or Demon-fire Orb. Many players have reported that the meteor’s exterior is sometimes not cracked open even with an explosion. This tends to happen most frequently with Explosive Jars or Traps and is typically down to the explosions not being close enough (even though it looks like it should be!).

How to Make Explosives

To make Explosive Jars, you’ll a Construction Hammer and x1 Earthenware Jug, x5 "Tar" iconTar, and x1 Dragon Powder. Tar is easily obtained as a byproduct from turning "Hide" iconHide into "Leather" iconLeather at the Tannery. Dragon Powder is a bit harder to come by and is made at the Firebowl Cauldron using x2 "Demon Blood" iconDemon Blood, x10 "Brimstone" iconBrimstone, x50 "Crystal" iconCrystals, and x100 "Steelfire" iconSteelfire - quite an expensive recipe!

Explosive Arrows are also reasonably hard to come by. They’re made at a Carpenter’s Bench using x1 "Ironhead Arrow" iconIronhead Arrow, x5 Tar, x1 "Dragonpowder" iconDragonpowder, and x4 "Feather" iconFeathers. We recommend Explosive Arrows over Explosive Jars because you get 10 arrows (so 10 explosives) from 1 dragon powder.

Explosive Arrows can be used to more accurately target meteors.

Once you’ve exploded the outer shell of the meteor, you’ll reveal the glowing blue Star Metal within. But you’ll now need a Tier 4 or higher pick to obtain the ore! You’ll get a fair bit of ore from one meteor and you should also find multiple meteors after a shower.

What Pick Can Mine Star Metal?

The following pickaxes can mine Star Metal:

We recommend the Hardened Steel Pick or the "Black Ice" iconBlack Ice Pick as the materials are reasonably easy to get hold of. Head over to our guide on how to make Hardened Steel Bars for more information!

You’ll need a Tier 4 Pick to mine the Star Metal.

What Enemies Drop Star Metal?

If you’re having trouble with meteor showers spawning, you can also get some Star Metal from certain enemies. Cimmerian enemies in particular have a high chance of carrying some sort of Star Metal weapon. You can then place the weapons in a dismantling bench to return 40% of the materials, which will include Star Metal bars!

(1 of 2) Head over to Mounds of the Dead to fight some Cimmerians

Head over to Mounds of the Dead to fight some Cimmerians (left), many of them wield Star Metal weapons! (right)

"Frost Giant" iconFrost Giants used to have a chance of dropping Star Metal, but this seems to have been patched out. You can now really only obtain Black "Ice" iconIce and Ice from Frost Giants, so we recommend going for the Cimmerian Camps near the Mounds of the Dead (Exiled Lands)!

So, if you’re kitted out, a great strat for farming Star Metal quickly would be to hang around the Mounds of the Dead to fight the Cimmerian enemies. And whilst you’re there, you can keep an eye out for Meteors and then make your way over to the crash sites - it’s a win-win!

How to Make Star Metal Bars

Once you’ve obtained some Star Metal ore, you’ll also need to grab yourself some Black Ice and Brimstone. You can use our maps to find Black Ice and Brimstone in both Siptah and Exiled Lands! We also have a detailed guide on Brimstone.

(1 of 2) To make Star Metal Bars, you’ll need Brimstone and Black Ice as well as Star Metal ore

To make Star Metal Bars, you’ll need Brimstone and Black Ice as well as Star Metal ore (left), you’ll make a bar every 20 seconds! (right)

After grabbing those materials, you’ll need to find yourself a furnace and place x2 Star Metal, x1 Brimstone, and x1 Black Ice inside. It’ll take 20s to make a single Star Metal Bar, but once you’ve got a good stock of them, you’ll be able to start making higher-tier gear and weapons!

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Guide Information
  • Publisher
    Funcom
  • Genre
    Action Adventure, Survival
  • Guide Release
    18 April 2023
  • Last Updated
    11 January 2024
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