Small (mostly) ideas to improve surface biomes and make them feel more alive

Butterflies and other creatures should have a few different variants to make them more interesting to look at
(think how in shipwrecked butterflies are blue and have longer wings)

Frogs should be hostile towards Butterflies and Bees (and also eat butterfly wings).
Frogs' gotta eat something right might as well be the creatures that make the most sense for a frog to eat

Pigs should communicate with other pigs and be hostile when you destroy their house.
Makes pigs feel more alive and less like loot boxes while letting you still just nuke them.

Pig Guards Shouldn't attack other pigs and either shoo them off or just ignore them.
Why do Pig Guards attack their fellow pig unprovoked that's silly.

Some Trees should spawn in as stumps.
Very small change but it would help bolster the idea that there's other creatures/things also collecting resources besides the player.

Birds should have a (small) chance to drop in with crop specific seeds (depending on the turf they land on and season)
Lightens the load of the seed roulette you have to play whenever you decide to start farming in an unobtrusive way

Canaries should rarely fly in instead of a different bird
Scarecrow should absolutely stay the best way to find canaries but one rarely flying in would be cool to see

Berry Bushes sometimes spawn as the leafy version
More visually interesting than just the same berry bush over and over 
 

Grassland biomes (the one you start next to the one inside triple mac etc)

Grasslands now have the alternate basic resource just in lesser quantity
Twiggy Tree worlds are now much less annoying early game whilst also being more interesting to look at since theres more stuff

Slightly increased tree density 
More Visually Interesting without making resources more abundant in a meaningful way since trees are already infinite

Nitre Boulders rarely spawn
Starter Biome should have some rocks

This is a rough idea of what my changes would look like much more to look at without being overwhelming and people who like the original and alternate resources both win as both are present

 

The 2nd Deciduous forest cannot spawn anymore.
Annoying biome that lacks any meaningful purpose and makes finding klaus deer and pig king more annoying while also taking up space for a more impactful biome like rocky or quarry.

Increased tree density
It's a forest there should be more trees to fill the empty space.

Alternate berry bushes sometimes replace the bush that wouldve spawned normally.
Keeps the amount of berry bushes the same but adds variety .

Slightly Increase Catcoon den frequency
an excellent mob for immersion and makes the biome feel more alive so more of them can't hurt

Very slight increase to pond spawns
with frogs interacting with the world just a smidge more i think making them *very slightly* more frequent is a decent call

Pumpkins can now spawn as natural wild crops.
While pumpkins are good for hunger I don't see them planted for crop combos in the servers I play on very frequently so making the crop and seeds more available in the most appropriate biome with 4-6 pumpkins (with seeds) fixes this issue while making your early game exploring food options more diverse.


Again, Another example of my changes




New Setpiece: Pig Pumpkin Patch

Wouldn't spawn 100% of the time but a more risky way to increase your pumpkin count 

Merge the Moonstone and Mandrake Forests into 1.
By far my most extreme idea, merging both of these fairly basic biomes with a few pois each into 1 large area with many places of interest would make the forest a hotspot for many needs, frees up space for other biomes and makes the world more interesting since 1 larger forest with everything would be more interesting to explore than 2 smaller forests.

Wild Crops: (again) Garlic and Potatoes
Similar reasons for why Pumpkins should be a rare wild crop though i'm admittedly not confident that potatoes should spawn naturally since they're super common, Garlick however would make crop combos requiring them a lot easier to obtain early game and they have poor stats alone to eat normally so the benefit besides farming reasons is fairly minimal

Spider Dens spawn with cleared areas instead of having trees spawn right next to them and have a few bones
Looks cleaner but this is more of a personal gripe than something I think is needed

Evergreen forests have a few lumpy evergreens and lumpy evergreens have a few normal evergreens.
something else to look at that breaks up the single evergreen variant

Make the scrapyard larger
It's a boss fight arena and somewhere with important resources it could do to be a bit larger

The Forest....
The clear area would be smaller this is too much area but the other changes are nice additions


the larger scrapyard 

Chopped trees unfertilized grass and dug/muddy turf further sell the disgusting look while giving more space for scrappy

Both of these biomes are mostly fine theyre deserts they shouldn't be full of things

Volt Goats should have an area to indicate where they spawn so they fit in a bit more and matches the savanna in the dragonfly desert



This one I will 100% admit I am not a huge fan of but ive seen a few people suggest it 
peppers in dragonfly desert 

I don't think this is a great idea since only 1 character would really benefit and this specific setpiece would take up a lot of space with the magma but thats an easy fix, still, it's popular so.

The Rocky biome, Quarry and Rocky part of triple mac should have most of the rock variants 
The Rocky areas should have all the rocks 


Very basic Idea more rocks in my rock biome