Custom Village JigsawPiece extremely rare

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Hi everyone,

I have this custom village building in my mod (1.18.2) that I have implemented (as far as I know) in the same way as the folks from Immersive Engineering have done it.

It works but I have only found around 5 or 6 cases where it did spawn even if I have set the weight of the piece to the max value (which is 150).

I have done some testing but unfortunately I have no clue what is causing it. 
Here are some things I have discovered.

• I added this line of code after adding the pieces to their respective pools.

  TEMPLATE_POOL.get(new ResourceLocation("village/desert/houses")).getShuffledTemplates(new Random(0)).forEach(e->LogUtils.getLogger().debug(e.toString()));

  This showed the weights like they should be (150) .
   

• When using jigsaw blocks to spawn the jigsaw pieces the pieces were almost always my custom building so I assume that also works with my given weight.
   

• In a world with the exact same seed when I have disabled the piece being added any village has way less buildings than whenever I do add the pieces.

• Adding the piece multiple time to the village Pools does not change anything.

I know this is quite niche and not many people might know what the issue is or even how to solve it.

My theory is that maybe somehow the piece I added has a lot of criteria for the terrain or something (if that is a thing) that are almost never met

or that no matter the weight I set for the piece I add, when it gets naturally generated it uses weight 1 for some reason.

I could be dead wrong but I think those are the most likely.

Every bit of help is appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

 

P.S. If you want me to show some code, feel free to ask.