Meteor Crate

* Normal
* Normal Savannah
* Gold
* Gold Savannah
* Gold Desert
* Golden Pumpkin
* Gold Thanksgiving
* Military
* Gold Military

***Not to be confused with Meteor Case, a different case with a similar name.***

The **Meteor Crate** a special Crate that was added in the v0.5.0 "*Air drop it like it's hot*" update on July 26, 2018. It can be found as regular or golden crates, with golden crates containing rarer loot. It is also the hardest crate to break in the game, due to the fact that you have to break off the metal shell first before actually destroying the crate. It's currently the only way to find the CZ-3A1 and the M1 Garand, and one of the only ways to find the AWM-S, the M4A1-S, and the OTs-38. It is also the only way to find Skins such as the Falling Star or the Celestial Garb; however, it is not guaranteed that any one of these will drop. It is, however, guaranteed to contain exactly one random piece of Level 3 Equipment. If you stand directly under the Airdrop, you will be crushed, regardless of your armor, (unless you are a Lone Survivr) and the kill feed will read: "The airdrop crushed <playerName>". However, when playing in squads, you will only be Knocked Out and moved to the side of the airdrop. However, if you are a Lone Survivr at full health, you will immediately jump down to half health and be moved to the side of the airdrop.

## Location

The Meteor Crate is a crate dropped from the sky through the Air Drop mechanism. You can find it by following the shadow of an Airplane or by looking for the orange Air Drop ping on your map. It sends out an orange pulse on the map, so it can be easily located. The drop is always random, but never goes outside the safe zone unless a Flare Gun summoned the drop.

## Trivia

* The airdrop always spawns within a player's area. You can use it to find your enemies in 1v1s.
* You can actually summon in crates in the final stages of the game to act as shields, as the metallic shell of the crate will ricochet bullets while also acting as a barrier between you and the enemy. You may also use ricocheting trick shots with the metal shell. Beware though, Frag Grenades or MIRV Grenades can go over the crate and kill you, and you will need quite a large amount of Flare ammo to use this strategy.
	+ This is most possible in the Desert Map wherein Flare Guns are quite common.
	+ Also, the ricochet effect turns off if you open it out of its shell. Try not to open it if you are dealing with heavy fire.
* All the Golden Air Drop weapons (such as the M1 Garand) have special weapon skins that are different from most normal weapons. To view them, go to their respective pages.
* In the 50v50 Map, Military Meteor Crates has a special `preloadGuns` tag set to them. This feature allows players to pick up guns and not have to worry about no ammunition or stolen ammunition, as the ammo comes "packaged" along with the weapon.
* A Katana spawns with every Military Meteor Crate, implying that KHI is the unaligned third party in the skies.

## Purple Meteor Crate/Air Drop

The Purple Meteor Crate only spawns in the Twitch Extension (a widget in the Official surviv.io Twitch site found here). It drops the same things as the standard one, however, the contents of Tier Airdrop Outfits are replaced with the Purple Fade Skin. The airdrop is simply a normal Air Drop completely colored in dark and light purple. When opened, the red line is replaced with a purple line at the top of the crate.

### Trivia

* Ironically, when broken it will still show the same residue with the red stripe.

## See Also

* Air Drop
	+ Military Air Drop
* Class Pod