Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20170330142720/@comment-26335978-20170708020654

Maybe barrow-wights would only drop loot when killed by a player or a hired unit that has teleport on. Perhaps (if possible) there could be a way to limit the amount of barrow-wights that spawn in a certain chunk every Middle-Earth day.

I don't think they should only spawn on podzol. 1). That wouldn't fix the problem. All it would take is for a player to find a location with enough podzol that wights spawn at their current rate. 2). Some players randomly have silk touch shovels (although they should not). 3). Podzol would be really nice to be able to relocate, and this would only complicate it more.