So I've been doing a little testing in my world. I initially abandoned my first base, but because I didn't want bugs getting stuck on my grass walls, I recycled all of them. Around 25 grass walls, bringing the lay-around grass blades to about 40 to 60. After several hours of playing, I noticed that the grass remains there on the ground untouched and not attached to anything in the world, e.g. built into something new or placed into a grass blade container. While it might not be the root cause of the lifeless world, it certainly can't help it. I think there should be a faster decay timer on blades of grass just lying around. I also piled several stacks of blades on the ground around my new base to just have. So all in all, we've counted around 100 blades of grass just lying around in the world. Me, along with my son, have been building these piles into grass walls and recycling them down to remove them from the world. I also took some time to kill about 15 larva (above ground) and it seems to be helping as some of the flies around the swamp areas have started spawning again. I certainly don't think this is the primary reason this is happening, and it might be correlation not causation. The issue is probably somewhere else either spawn stacking, or stuff spawning underground taking up precious memory. Still no lady bugs, but the big wolf-spider has returned after a minimum of 6 rl hours of showing no sign. Progression has all but stopped at this point, because ladybug parts are necessary to continue. I'm hoping this is a known issue and will at the very least be addressed in a forthcoming patch.
