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Dappled Forests should generate near cold biomes (Taigas and Old Taigas)

So, the dappled forest is considered a cold biome, especially since the patch notes explicitly describe it as one, and it spawns the cold variants of animals. Right now, though, its generation feels a bit awkward because it often appears near rivers, where it's cut off by the them, on top of hills or isolated in the middle of plains, which are temperate biomes. Also, dappled forests also generate with spruce trees, so it would make much more sense for them to spawn next to taigas and old-growth taigas instead. 

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    I very much agree, I actually logged on to post basically the same feedback. In my opinion the dappled forest would be great as a transition between regular forests and taigas. I also think that having trees and leaf litter etc. to break up the transition between biomes would help make the grass color transition much less jarring.

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    Yes, also came on to suggest this! I saw someone suggest we need a 4th biome "type" of autumn theme, and I very much agree. It needs to blend inbetween the snowy and the summer biomes. 

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    Agree. The new Dappled Forest spawns at Temperature=1, Humidity=0, Weirdness>0, one slot colder than where Sunflower Plains generates (For those that don’t know, Minecraft uses a multi noise algorithm to determine biome placement). Makes for abrupt transitions with Plains, Ice Spikes, and spring-inspired Cherry Groves. Dappled forest would have need a higher humidity slot (ie. T=1, H=2, W>0) for it to border Taigas, Snowy Taigas, and regular Forests. I do think it would fit well with the other colder, woodland type biomes.

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    I agree with this. I just want to add that it's strange for this biome to spawn in low humidity areas when there's mushrooms in it? It's inconsistent, upping its humidity seems only logical.

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    As of the changelog released today, this feature is actually being added!

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    If the previous comment is true, then either they meant decently close, but not next to, or the chunkbase devs haven't updated yet.

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    I think they could replace forests at lower temperatures. This would make it so the dappled forest often generates between forests and taigas.