[2022] Too much ore?

I play random worlds, and I have the same experience: that just in digging a hole for your base or whatever unrelated purpose, you hit a vein of ore. I wouldn’t say it’s 50% ore down there, but I do find it excessive. One could look at biomes.xml and figure out what the percentage really is.

I would like to see smaller ore veins on average. And given the dev’s “get off your ass” philosophy, I would think they would like that, too.