Originally posted by Rhapsody:

I don't know about crypt variants, but they did reduce density of crypts a long time ago (two years or something). If you used to play on an old world seed, you may have ran into swamps containing crypts as close to each other as is physically possible, 30-50m between each. The change made was semi-retroactive since it prevented spawning of new "extra" crypts even on those old seeds/worlds.

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

I don't know about crypt variants, but they did reduce density of crypts a long time ago (two years or something). If you used to play on an old world seed, you may have ran into swamps containing crypts as close to each other as is physically possible, 30-50m between each. The change made was semi-retroactive since it prevented spawning of new "extra" crypts even on those old seeds/worlds.

Originally posted by Alio:

Dang, I must've gotten lucky because the first swamp I entered there were 9 crypts, literally all in a circle within 50 meters from each other.

After clearing them out, I filled almost 2 longboats full of Iron.

You probably just got super unlucky with your seed. You'll have to really work for that iron gear, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Having everything come easy takes the fun away.

Originally posted by One (1) Lini:

A friend and I started a new world after several months of not playing. I think the last time we did was soon after the tar pits were added for reference's sake, and things in this new world went decently... for a while.

But what on earth is up with the swamp crypts? We've been sailing around for days searching for them, small swamps, large swamps, no crypts. Today we finally decided that enough was enough and did some flying around to scout and the most amount of crypts we found in a swamp was 3?

They used to be so plentiful, and one needs a massive amount of iron for crafting and building, but it's so scarce all of a sudden? This combined with the added difficulty of abominations has made the swamps go from "kind of the low point" to an absolutely abysmal experience.

I tried looking through the patch notes for any information on if crypts have been nerfed but didn't really find anything.

Originally posted by Horemvore:

Originally posted by One (1) Lini:

A friend and I started a new world after several months of not playing. I think the last time we did was soon after the tar pits were added for reference's sake, and things in this new world went decently... for a while.

But what on earth is up with the swamp crypts? We've been sailing around for days searching for them, small swamps, large swamps, no crypts. Today we finally decided that enough was enough and did some flying around to scout and the most amount of crypts we found in a swamp was 3?

They used to be so plentiful, and one needs a massive amount of iron for crafting and building, but it's so scarce all of a sudden? This combined with the added difficulty of abominations has made the swamps go from "kind of the low point" to an absolutely abysmal experience.

I tried looking through the patch notes for any information on if crypts have been nerfed but didn't really find anything.

Yes they added 3 lesser dungeon, there is only 1 instance of the old ones left in the RNG, so its a 1 in 4 for an old "Crypt".

Originally posted by One (1) Lini:

Originally posted by Horemvore:

Yes they added 3 lesser dungeon, there is only 1 instance of the old ones left in the RNG, so its a 1 in 4 for an old "Crypt".

What do you mean by "lesser dungeon" in this case?