HereForTheBeer: Do you remember which sword it was? Just curious.
Starmaker: A fake shrine with the brown sprite. I don't think it produced anything.
HereForTheBeer: I like that a single meteor drop gives you enough raw material to make all of that stuff. But I don't like what it does to the terrain. I may need to build some sort of blocking or sacrificial structure up in the sky, but I think that screws with the Falling Stars making it down to the surface.
Starmaker: From what I read, it's vice versa: a solid skybridge is a great choice for star collection but screws with meteorites making it down to the surface and producing usable amounts of ore. So if you're sick of meteorites, build a solid bridge and lay minecart tracks on it with end bumpers which reverse direction, then ride it to and fro at night to collect stars. Granted, that'll deprive you of the fun (if any) of collecting random stars while doing anything else, but even I got bored now that I can't die to a Blood Moon.
From the wiki:
Meteorites will not land within 25 tiles of a player, NPC or a chest.
Starmaker: I guess seeding the surface with chests is also an option.
HereForTheBeer: For what it's worth, my last two deaths were from meteorite burns - I keep forgetting to bring along the proper potion when I go to clear out the mess.
Starmaker: I don't use potions (and hey, if you have access to the obsidian skin potion, y no obsidian skull?), I just dig in from the side. Works okay even without the Extendo Grip. Now, the latest meteorite landed in Corruption, which means tweezers.
Thorfinn: I rarely build IN the corruption. Under the corruption works better, and protects the rest of the world from corruption from that source once I go hardmode.
Starmaker: I wanted an arena to fight the tapeworm. And I'll probably need an evil shroom farm eventually, the wiki says it must be "naturally lit" which among other things means "aboveground".
Shroom farms are east. I've accidentally started them. :P One seed, that's ALL YOU NEED!