I’ve seen it for “Disappearing Villagers” contracts as well, including on v0.9.0.20. It wasn’t quite as exaggerated as what I saw before, but still you needed to travel 1/3 of the way down the map from the far north, through forests and tundra, and there were at least 5 other settlements that were closer to the contract site. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a screenshot, since trying “Print Screen” on the world map causes it to be zoomed in, and then the image printed is not the zoomed-out overview that was desired.
