Licoracius

Yeah. basically, in the winter, precipitation turns to snowfall instead of rain, and that is then on the ground. I suppose what I'm wondering is, why does is there less snowfall/precipitation than the years before. One explanation could be that I just got a drought for some reason. Though, according to the wiki, "Common" rainfall means it 0.45 - 0.70 rainfall. If that means that it rains 45% to 70% of the time, then making it all the way to January without snow cover is a one in a thousand chance. PS - the prospecting expedition was succesful in that I found an area which is likely to contain Halite.

I don't think I've entered the snowy chunks before, and even if I did, they'd have been regenerated when I ran /db prune on the upgrade to 1.22.2.

I'm playing a world in its 3rd winter, and most parts of the world have very little snow cover, much less than in the previous years. This is despite the rainfall reading of "Common". In the attached screenshot, I'm standing in an area with common rainfall, same as the snow covered area. Month is January, and temperature currently stays well below 0. So, my expectation would be that the world covered by snow, but it isn't. It's also of note that I had this world since 2024, and it has gone through several game versions. The lack of snowfall was first visible in 1.21.0. Am I just unlucky, or is there something more to it?

I ran the following experiment: 1. I loaded up a new world in creative mode. 2. I used the erase tool to stripmine. 3. I compared the sizes of revealed deposits with the sizes listed in the wiki I found deposits of a size that would be impossible if the numbers in the wiki were diameters. See attached for an example. The deposit in question (lignite) is 22 blocks across, which would be impossible if the size given in the wiki (10 plus/minus 5) referred to diameter instead of radius.

On the wiki page about ore deposits in the section "Generation Stats", it reads: This confuses me, because the value is referred both as "width" and "radius", but these two are different things. "Width" implies diameter, which is twice the radius. And given that area is pi times the square of the radius, whether we're dealing with width of diameter has large implications for deposit sizes. Does somebody know whether the values are actually radius, as its labeled, or whether its diameter?