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NOTENOTE: oh.... it went down in the comment section.
Caves gave minecraft a new flavor: you against the frontier of darkness: removing the stronghold would remove the goal of a Caves playthrough.
one could compare it to superflat, but without the limited resources.
also i dont understand because the villages still generate on the bedrock roof (sometimes making a path up through the roof: generating a hollow-night-style of playthrough
I have this issue: it gives me an error that I cannot connect.
The error seemed to be fixed as I was writing this, however the only possible change I made was to change my relation with my friends from "friends" to "besties" which seems highly unrelated