Crunchy Chicken

+1 to this

I use Stone Age Fauna mods precisely becuase of this. Tho sadly they are only for 1.20.12 currently but the mod author is working on an update despite his busy schedule (bless his soul). It's about 19 mods in total that each add a variety of different real world stone age animals, and they are great (tho the elephant drops are imo way too much). My 1.21 world feels so empty without them now. Give them a try maybe sometime?

I can also confirm it doesn't, I found the exact same issue while trying to generate a 25kx25k world with symmetrical poles and equator exactly in the middle. After 5-7 tried I gave up. I would also much appreciate something like "real earth" option that would always generate poles only on the north and south end of the world and the equator always, and only in the exact middle of the map - no matter the selected map size of starting biome. The world creator is amazingly configurable but somehow it completely omitts this specific setting.

Glad to be here! Also that's good to hear, the vocals itself aren't inheritely bad, just way too loud compared to everything else in that slider.

I find the traders ridiculously loud, maybe it's because I have sensory issues but I have to pretty much get "effects" volume to about 5% to even be able to stand next to any of them much less trade. This would not be an issue if not for the fact that there are other sounds tied to that slider, so I pretty much have to keep sliding the volume down to 5 and back up to about 80 to be able to use traders while still being able to hear what I'm doing in the game. I know it's a silly minor issue but if it would be at all possible to add a separate volume slider for just traders/npcs at some point in the development I would be much thankful.