Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20151122110208

The abundance of vines in the Far Harad Jungle and the default growth rate causes the jungle space to be clogged with vines if one stays there for some time, to mine or establish a base or settlement. This is pretty annoying and may be tweaked by adjusting the general or biome-specific growth rate of vines.

If this is configurable (as I know growth rates may be configured using a spigot server for instance, but not for vines notably), it would be a great asset for servers anyway. I prefer to reduce crop growth rates anyway and usually set them between 10 and 25 % of vanilla defaults to get a more realistic feel.

As I notice many players just grow crops to sell them to some trader NPC reduction of base crop growth rates can also reduce the exploitation of the (flawed) economic system: traders just keep on buying whatever a player's character offer them as the NPC market appears unsatiable. ;) 