The ambiance of the betweenlands is legendary, but its really brought down by the puddles wiping out most plants during heavy rain. Its bad in areas with tree cover but at least kinda makes since there because at least the trees mostly shelter some plants, but without tree cover the ground becomes absolutely barren, and its a real shame.

I don't know how work intensive this would be, but I think its important enough I'd take whatever solution is easy, be it disabling puddles, heavy rain, or whatever. Ideally maybe the puddle could occupy the same tile as the plant (like reeds in water) but thats probably a lot of work. Puddles washing away fallen leaves is really cool, but how could there even be plants here at all if they get wiped out every time it rains? I think just making natural worldgen plants immune to puddles destroying them would be plenty. A config option for these would be the everybody wins scenario either way. Thanks for the hard work on this amazing mod, I look forward to your future updates.

I've been told this is either a bug or I'm crazy and plants are not destroyed by puddles, so I'll go ahead and close this barring something else. I don't have concrete evidence of it happening so its probably something else.

As far as I can tell from the code you're right