so i've had 2 temporary coastal bases going for a while which are very close to each other, one is in a plains area (my flax/barley farm) and the other is a simple meadows backup base, and today, pretty much out of nowhere, the spawnrates of necks, deer, boars and greylings have gone crazy, specifically in the space between these 2 basecamps.

i literally had to deploy wolves as sentries just to keep the spawnrates in check but its still so intense that they just keep on spawning pretty much before they can be killed off.
in the time it takes me to run from one base to the other, nearly all the mobs will have respawned (and it only takes about 20-30 seconds of sprinting to get from A to B).

i like the fact that i'm getting tons of free meat and resin, but to be honest this is a bit over the top, and i'd like for it to stop, particularly because they keep spooking the lox i am trying to tame which have increased the tame time quite significantly.

i tried putting workbenches around because people keep telling me those work like de-spawners, but that didn't do squat, and for obvious reasons making campires or other fire-related buildables is out of the question because again, that will spook the lox.

what the hell do i do? is my game bugging? why do these mobs just keep on coming despite despawners being put in place?!
i even chopped down half the forest in an attempt to deal with it, but it changed nothing.