Insane wild crops regeneration

[crystalcrag 45]

Alright, I don't know If I'm lucky or if there is something wrong with my world. Basically every summer, I find a ridiculous amount of wild crops. It started with maize, in year 1006 if I remember well:

 

This screenshot does not make justice to the amount of maize there was: about 7 or 8 stacks of 160oz, plus rice, wheat, barley and squash not very far:

 

Wheat and barley almost everywhere, guess I'm lucky so far. There was so much though, that I didn't harvest everything, thinking that they will disappear naturally.

 

Another area, same year (1006), loads and loads of red bell pepper, lettuce (like 15 or so stacks) and rye. Okay, starting to get suspicious now.

Then I came back to the land with the loads of maize/wheat/barley, in autumn 1007. Everything grew back from year 1006, plus more.

This is about half the crops harvested. That seems wrong: it is so much more than what I find around my main base (about 1000 blocks north).

Then I saw there was an option in TFC: enableCropsDie, which was set to false until now. So I set it to true and come back to this area (half of the crops were still there) to see if they would disappear. And indeed they did, for the most part. This time I harvested everything I could find.

 

Then, I came back to these areas in early summer 1008: everything grew back, plus more.

This is with TFC 79.18, it is a little bit old, but I didn't see anything related to this problem in the changelog.

Also, all these places were transit areas: I usually travel through these regions by horse, rarely stops more than a few in-game hour. Around my main base, where I spent about 10 months per year, there is barely any wild crops growing around.

It is kind of overly specific, but I wonder if anybody else noticed this kind of behavior: transit into an area and see the amount of crops increasing year after year.

[CalangoMC 9]

This effect occurs in warm areas of wild crops spawn, every year event spawn more and more crops, in cold areas wild crops die from eviromental damage, warm area not have this event like as EL ninõ/La ninã to clear the chunk area from this excessive amount of crops.

[WillOfStone 33]

Lucky intersection of biome, latitude and precipitation average.  You found the Garden of Eatin.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Remember that TFC is balanced towards multiplayer, so that crazy abundance of food in a single player world is not the same on a server, because you have more players eating it.

[CalangoMC 9]

Happy Diggers is a MP server and have a long term running same map, (look at the number of towns created) (maybe insaneJ, say how many people played in curernt map)

Multiplayer is 2 players? 5/10/50/100 players? 

I make a video to show.

 

[Kittychanley 1,002]

"Multiplayer" in the sense of TFC balancing is a decent-size group of players (2-10) working together as a community. A bunch of players who each have their own individual farm and who are basically just playing single player in close proximity to a bunch of other players is not what we mean when we say "balanced for multiplayer."

 

As for the video, an area that has a temperature of 30C in late autumn is obviously tropical, and lots of crops in a tropical area is to be expected. All that food also rots a lot faster once you harvest it because the temperature is hotter. Although I will point out one thing I noticed, which might be because Happy Diggers uses Cauldron, which TFC does not offer support for as it causes many issues, is the variety of crops in a small area. This is not normal behavior as the type of crop that grows in an area is based on a 8x8 chunk, or 128x128 block grid.

 

I can switch it so that naturally generated crops will always die of old age, regardless of what the config option is set to, but that's pretty much the only change that can be done due to the way that Minecraft deals with chunk loading and the fact that pretty much every world has areas that aren't loading during a period of time cold enough to kill all the existing crops in the area before it generates new ones.