Heartopia Meteor Showers and Starfall Shards (Onsen Mountain)

Meteor showers in Heartopia are timed weather events that briefly turn Onsen Mountain into a rare resource farm. During these nights, special ore nodes called Starfall Shards appear across the area, and the travelling merchant Doris sets up a limited-time Meteorite shop at the bus stop.

How meteor showers work in Heartopia

Starfall Shards are only obtainable during meteor showers and only on Onsen Mountain. Outside of the event window, the nodes do not appear.

Each meteor shower runs during the night, from 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM in-game. During that time, exactly nine Starfall Shard ore nodes spawn around Onsen Mountain. These nodes do not respawn once mined during that meteor shower, so the number of shards per event is capped.

Every node drops three to four shards of a single color. Across all nine, you typically end with a little over 27 shards in total if you collect everything. Any shards you do not spend stay in your inventory for future nights.

How to check when the next meteor shower happens

Meteor showers are part of the rotating weekly weather, so you can plan ahead rather than waiting at random.

Step 1: Open your smartwatch in Heartopia, then look at the top-right corner of the screen for the small weather image.

Step 2: Tap the weather icon to open the detailed forecast. The view shows both the current day’s conditions and the full week of upcoming weather, including special events.

Step 3: Look for a moon icon surrounded by stars in the weekly timeline. Any day with that icon has a meteor shower scheduled that night between 6:00 PM and 12:00 AM.

Different regional servers can have meteor showers at different real-world times, but the in-game icon and 6 PM–midnight window are consistent. Use the forecast rather than relying on external schedules.

Where Starfall Shards spawn on Onsen Mountain

All Starfall Shard nodes appear somewhere on Onsen Mountain as soon as the meteor shower begins. Only nine nodes are active per event, but they always draw from the same pool of locations, so once you learn the circuit, you can reuse it each time.

Every node looks like a small ore rock similar to the roaming Fluorite deposit, but with a glowing gem in white, yellow, blue, purple, or (in some showers) other colors. They can sit on beaches, cliffs, or tucked just behind rocks, so you need to search vertically as well as along paths.

These are the key spawn locations that are repeatedly used for Starfall Shards:

• Northwest beach: On the shoreline at the far northwest of Onsen Mountain.
• Ruins near the capybara trough: In the ruins area, move behind the rocks near the capybara feeding trough to spot the node.
• South of Onsen Mountain Lake / Crater Lake cliffs: From the main mountain lake, head south and climb down the cliffs to reach the lower ledges.
• Southwest corner path (near lot 5): On the winding mountain path in the southwest section, not far from house lot five.
• Shoreline south of the Old Sea islet: Follow the coast just south of the Old Sea islet for another beach-side node.
• Central mountain cliffs overlooking the Onsen: On the inner cliffs above the Onsen resort, accessed via ramps or rock jumps in the central mountain.
• Path near the Mountain Lake fork (southeast): At the fork in the trails by the mountain lake in the southeast, on or just off the path.
• Eastern hills near lot 8: On the cliffs in the eastern hills close to house lot eight.
• Stone Cliff Path on the far eastern shore: Along the stone cliffs by the shoreline on the road that runs to the far east of Onsen Mountain.

Only nine of these spots will be active in any given shower. If you reach a listed area and see nothing, that spot simply did not roll as one of the nine nodes that night; move on to the next without assuming anything is bugged.

Doris’s location and appearance during meteor showers

Doris is the key NPC for turning Starfall Shards into furniture, emotes, and extra colors. She behaves like a special-weather merchant and only appears during certain conditions.

During a meteor shower, Doris stands beside the umbrella at the Onsen Mountain bus stop. This is the same bus stop you use to travel to Onsen Mountain at any other time; you do not need to unlock a separate location.

She also spawns in other special weather, such as active rain, snowfall, or rainbows, but her Meteorite shop inventory is only available during meteor showers.

Her visual appearance changes for these events: instead of her usual blue hair and darker clothing, she has pink hair and a light blue sweatshirt, matching the look she uses during rainbow weather. If you arrive at the bus stop and see this version of Doris, you are in the right place.

Starfall Shard colors and how to get more

Starfall Shards come in several colors. Meteor shower nodes yield a single color per node, and different events can feature different color distributions.

There are four “natural” shard colors that consistently come directly from nodes: white, yellow, blue, and purple. Some showers might not include all four, so you cannot count on seeing every color in a single night.

Green and pink shards and furniture variants exist as well, but the way to obtain those colors has not been clearly identified in-game yet.

Doris provides a limited color conversion service that helps smooth out bad luck:

• You can trade white Starfall Shards for colored shards in yellow, blue, or purple on a 1:1 basis.
• You cannot trade any colored shard back into white, and you cannot convert between non-white colors directly.

Because white shards are the only flexible currency for recoloring, treating them as a reserve makes it easier to finish a specific furniture set that needs one color.

All items in Doris’s Meteorite shop

Doris’s Meteorite shop is only active during meteor showers and only at the Onsen Mountain bus stop. The shop focuses on bathroom-style Meteorite furniture, star-themed lighting, and the exclusive meteor shower emote.

Each furniture item is available in multiple colors. The exact selection of colors you can purchase that night is tied to which shard colors the meteor shower provides and what you hold, but the underlying catalog and shard costs are consistent.

On top of the furniture, Doris also lets you exchange one white Starfall Shard for one colored Starfall Shard in a specific color (yellow, blue, or purple) if that service is available that night.

Furniture pieces are the same across colors; only the shard color you spend and the resulting item color differ. For example, buying a Meteorite Bathtub with blue shards yields a blue variant of the bathtub.

How many Starfall Shards you can realistically earn

Meteor showers are intentionally limited. Every event provides exactly nine nodes, each dropping three to four shards of a single color. That means each shower yields roughly 27–36 shards before any color conversion.

Because nodes do not respawn during the event window on a given town instance, you cannot infinitely farm a single server or world. To acquire all of Doris’s furnishings, you should expect to participate in multiple meteor showers and prioritize which items or colors matter most early on.

Some players also choose to visit friends’ towns during the same shower, where the nine-node set is separate and can be collected again. That depends on how Heartopia handles cross-town spawns on your platform and may vary, but the baseline expectation is nine nodes per event per town.

Unlocking meteor shower achievements and badges

Meteor showers tie into at least two progression milestones: one centered on wishing with friends and one on sheer shard collection.

Beneath the Meteor Shower badge and Gemini title

The meteor shower-exclusive emote, Wish Upon Shooting Stars, does more than just look good. Used correctly, it unlocks a badge and title.

Step 1: During your first meteor shower, visit Doris at the Onsen Mountain bus stop and buy the Wish Upon Shooting Stars emote for five Starfall Shards. Using white shards is the safest choice to preserve color flexibility.

Step 2: Equip the emote, then meet up with at least one other player on Onsen Mountain while the meteor shower is active.

Step 3: Face each other and use the emote. When you trigger it at the right time, a massive falling star streaks across the sky.

Performing this interaction during the meteor shower grants the Beneath the Meteor Shower badge for your profile and also unlocks the Gemini title, which you can equip to show that you completed the event requirement.

Stardust Collector achievement

Another long-term goal tied to meteor showers is the Stardust Collector achievement, which focuses purely on harvesting.

To unlock Stardust Collector, you must collect a total of 60 Starfall Shards during meteor showers. The count includes shards from any color and any event; it is a cumulative total.

Given that each event yields around 27–36 shards if you clear all nine nodes, the requirement usually takes two to three meteor showers to complete, depending on how thorough you are and whether you miss any nodes.

Starfall Shards in the broader Heartopia resource system

Heartopia’s resources fall into a few broad groups: everyday basics like branches and stone, region-specific items such as different mushroom types, roaming or daily-shifting resources like Fluorite and the roaming oak, and rare event-based materials. Starfall Shards sit firmly in that last category.

Fluorite, for example, comes from a special mine that changes location each day and is marked by glowing blue crystals. Starfall Shards follow a similar pattern of scarcity but are locked not to a daily timer, but to occasional meteor showers.

Because Starfall Shards only spawn during these events and only on Onsen Mountain, missing a meteor shower effectively means missing that entire cycle of shard income. For long-term decorating or bathroom builds that use Meteorite furniture, staying on top of the in-game weather forecast is just as important as tracking normal crafting materials.

Meteor showers in Heartopia are short, predictable, and tightly scoped to Onsen Mountain, which makes them easy to plan around once you understand the pattern. Check the watch forecast for the moon-and-stars icon, map out a loop that hits all nine known spawn areas, and visit Doris early to grab the Wish Upon Shooting Stars emote. From there, each shower becomes a straightforward run for more shards, more furniture colors, and a couple of quietly satisfying badges.