Originally posted by Ataxio:

Originally posted by FissionChips:

That's.. not really enough data to say they nerfed crypt spawns. That happens anyway. And, going by the world gen, on average new worlds have just as many crypts.

I have a nearly flawless recollection of what my map looked like via the world gen tool. Suddenly all areas in swamps I have not phisically visited have had 75% of the crypts removed. I would call that highly sufficient evidence. You can measure this by comparing previously revealed swamps that contain crypts to any other undiscovered biomes and visually see a large discrepancy.

If you would like I can post screenshots later. I'm also fairly certain others have posted about crypts being dialed back when mistlands came out. I wish I was making it up because I always need iron and now it's even harder to obtain in great numbers.

My apologises, you're correct. I just had a good look around old vs new gens (seed: IronTest), not only are crypt spawns nerfed but on a newer gen of the same seed half the swamps are mistlands - swamps that had at a guess an average of 15 crypts each. No individual swamp looks as bad as 75% to me, but I also don't have an old world file to check against.