Originally posted by Mharr:

Originally posted by retsam1:

2. There are various explanations concerning how caves not spawning in is an intentional by product of allowing you to still play a map after an update changes it significantly.

That's not been a good reason for a while now, given there's a mod to selectively repopulate regions of the map with tar pits, mountain caves, etc. The Mistlands update would be a really good time to add that feature to the core game.

The devs intentionally made the explored buffer beyond the map fog to prevent the potential for discrepancies that would cause player loss of structures, items, tombstones etc. The mod doesn't account for that to my knowledge and runs the risk the devs intended to avoid with their implementation.

I'm just saying that's why they stated they did it and that they'd actually considered doing more negatively impacting scenarios before settling on what we have.