Gold is much lower on the worlds now.
Resource Distribution This link will pretty much help you find all you need.
As meat and other animal drops, you now have to give the last hit for it to drop the resources, no more it’s dead and it appears. You have to hit it with any tool (totem, shovel, axe, hammer) for it to despawn and drop resources.
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