Now for context, I haven't really played since the caves update. Wanted to see how mistlands turned out before i spent forever on a map id need to replace soon anyway. I know there are patch notes but either im missing something, got a weird seed maybe, or im imagining things and id kinda like a second opinion about it So far in my current game I am firmly in bronze age and am preparing to go for iron but it was taking a while because i both wanted to find the merchant and for the life of me i could NOT find bees so i could actually make meads but i wanted both done before beating the elder and getting the key.

In the "Is my seed weird or have spawns/generation changed?" category:

-I had the hardest time finding any decently sized meadows outside of the starting continent, which was part of the difficulty in finding bees. What I could eventually find was usually meadows just large enough to host a draugr village, often right between 2 biomes id really rather not deal with this instant (plains and swamps were a common flanking combo). Ultimately i did get my bees, by finding a meadow large enough to host THREE draugr villages, and clearing one of the villages which had 3 bees on its own, so i finally have mead production started. What I instead found an absolute abundance of was black forests....and leviathans in my oceans for whatever reason. Even had this little guy so close to shore that you can see on my map that i count as being in black forest, but that black mass in the water behind me is a leviathan:
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In the "did the rebalancing nerf or buff stuff cause i really cant tell sometimes?" category:

-well first of all yeah im bronze age but, i still cleared out a draugr village over bees...and didnt die while doing so despite there being 4 corpse piles that indeed spawned elites. Yeah i played smart, a lot of bow kiting and sniping the piles through holes in the buildings, but either i somehow got better while not playing or this got easier for that one.

-regular trolls seem to hit slightly harder than i remember and log trolls hit a bit softer. Not sure if thats actually the case but i could have sworn that my troll armor was a 2 shot for log and 3 shot for regular troll if i got hit faster than i was healing. now both seem to be 3 hit. Dunno if the armor was a bit different or the trolls changed or if i just misremembered but i swear they die easier to. I love troll armor so i prep fire arrows early and go troll hunting, i found myself abundantly overprepared this time just doing my old habits.

-i survived parking in a plains overnight without realizing it. During my epic quest for a meadows, i was skirting around the edges of a black forest when both night and fog hit so...i couldnt see a thing. I just parked my boat and stayed in it hoping i was far enough away from shore a troll didnt notice me cause i wasnt moving in those conditions. When sun rises i come to find out that the drift of the boat still going slightly because boats dont actually have brakes, had put me technically in plains but like 3 pixels away from the map reflecting that during the night. I had sat there all night, i wanna say 4 floors (2x2) worth of distance away from the shoreline and was oblivious to this until i saw lox eyes...and i lived....im either the luckiest player or deathsquito spawns changed a bit to.