Are the Biome challenges intentionally limited to their biomes?

[Rabbits Love Cactus]

I discovered that Hazard gear recipes are not unlocking when consuming tonics outside the biomes they are designed for.

I made the scorcher stew and drank it at my base in the desert so I could unlock the recipe to the snow gear. Doing so completed the drinking challenge for the stew, but the recipe is still locked. Not sure if this intentional, or a bug, but it's not a good limitation. Anyone else notice this?

 

[theFlu]

Not sure if this intentional, or a bug, but it's not a good limitation. Anyone else notice this?

I haven't checked the challenge in a few point releases, but it used to require a lot of things (kill stuff in the biome, harvest an ore, etc etc) .. you're only mentioning the stew, so I have to ask: have you done the other things as well? Or does it no longer require those?

 

[Rabbits Love Cactus]

Never mind, you need to gather all the ingredients for the gear as well, so you can unlock it... SMH

 

[Riamus]

For reference, some things do need to be done within the biome, such as killing enemies. If you stand in the forest and lure a plague spitter into the forest and kill it, it won't count, for example. The same for collecting mushrooms somewhere other than the burnt forest. But crafting the tonics can be done anywhere.