Xevyr
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After 30 minutes, there is no check occurring on startup.
And like @RagnarRandom explained, in single player you have to be in the meteor spawn area, otherwise the actor in the sky that spawns them is not created (that’s what keeps track of the timer).
Their location is also slightly random like Ragnar said, they’re being shot from the sky in a slightly randomized general direction and the projectiles line-trace to the surface of the landscape and spawn the harvestable nodes there.
So if you play single player, then the 30 minute timer starts when you actually get close enough to that zone, while on a dedicated server this is not necessary and you can just randomly travel up there and find meteors if the server has been running for a while.
Keep in mind that any unharvested meteors despawn after ~4 hours, so even if you keep a server running, there’s a chance you won’t find meteors when you go there and they will certainly not keep accumulating the longer you have it running.
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