I swear they changed the overall world generation. Coming back to this game after a few updates, this is the first time i "had" to use the map generator to find something (other than a ridiculously far out merchant once in a while, boy does he travel). After 5-6 continents of exploration I just couldn't find decently large meadows outside of spawn, and our spawn meadow didn't have like any bees. Eventually had to just raid a draugr village at bronze age because that was the only place I could find bees to make mead to make poison resist for swamps.
The quest to find the meadows saw me finding my trader at least, which was nice, the he also normally has a decent swamp near him last i recalled. This time it's the one crypt swamp I mentioned that's near him though (but that did give me bonemass location and the "bonemass swamps tend to have lots of crypts" rule still applies it seems).