Originally posted by Yakumo_2020:

one thing I've read in other posts is that the new content doesn't actually show up in hte game unless you go into truly unexplored areas. just pushing a bit past your previous edge of exploration isn't enough, you need to go at least 500 meters (how do you messure that anyway?) for the new stuff to star showing up.

Yeah, read that too. I went into new mountain biomes, a few in fact. It's how I found tar in the plains, though that was on one I'd been on but not fully explored. It's why I'm wondering if onions are broken.