Twiggy trees and grass gekkos don't spawn in caves

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I've seen a topic or two about this but it doesn't seem to have been addressed. Resource variants "work" in the caves, but at the moment, the only variant that seems to work is juicy bushes. I've never seen any petrified trees down there (could just not have looked in the right places, but whatever; plenty of minables down there anyway) and both twiggy trees and grass gekkos don't spawn when the world is generated with them active. I didn't think this was a huge deal because I didn't remember caves in single player all that well, but my most recent world has both grass tufts and saplings in the caves and the difference is huge. Previous worlds where twiggy tree or grass gekkos (or both) phases were up were just almost barren in a lot of spots; the difference is night and day. Since resource variants default to on in world generation, a lot of people will find their worlds like this as well. Either the caves preset needs to default variants to off, or (preferably) resource variants need to be fixed/disabled for the caves.

[Arlesienne]

Each shard calculates resource variants on its own if I am not mistaken. So you may have just got gekkos and twiggies in the overworld and not in the caves.

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14 hours ago, Arlesienne said:

Each shard calculates resource variants on its own if I am not mistaken. So you may have just got gekkos and twiggies in the overworld and not in the caves.

I know they determine what resources are in cycle independently. The issue is that grass gekkos and twiggy trees don't work at all in the caves, but because they're in cycle all of the grass tufts and saplings are dead and gone. Come to think of it, I'm not actually certain that the cycle works in caves; I've never seen those saplings or tufts come back, and I've never seen the berry bushes switch.

[Arlesienne]

8 hours ago, TheHalcyonOne said:

I know they determine what resources are in cycle independently. The issue is that grass gekkos and twiggy trees don't work at all in the caves, but because they're in cycle all of the grass tufts and saplings are dead and gone. Come to think of it, I'm not actually certain that the cycle works in caves; I've never seen those saplings or tufts come back, and I've never seen the berry bushes switch.

Ah. I get your train of thought now.