Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34241117-20180111020721/@comment-33185350-20180111021854

I don’t think they are making Harad smaller. The mod team is probably putting waypoints in more convenient places so that you can travel through the desert more quickly, and the next update will also add more subfactions and probably biome variety in Near Harad. Some of the borders of biomes like the desert will change, but I don’t think the major shape of the continent will. The desert actually looks like it’s getting bigger (see the image on the link you posted) because the fertile area is moving. The only changes to the more distant realms of the Moredain and Tauredain are, as far as we know, mountains in the jungle.