I seem to be having an issue where i can't get back to where i was. I had at one point played around enough with the monster lair settings in ElementalDefs.xml that i had a large abundance of monsters and lairs. So that the player had to fight for the land rather than killing one lair and having a chunk of land. 

Problem is i added a mod recently and it over wrote my elementaldifs file and i thought i had it backed up... but i didn't. So i'm trying to recreate the monster lairs and the changes aren't really changing much. I remember having this problem a year or so ago but don't recall what i did to correct it. If it was just adding large numbers to the settings or if there was an option somewhere else that i had to modify i have no idea.

but here's the the xml for the elementalDefs where i added a new "Insane" option. (i've added the dense so you can see the changes increased from that.)