Is there such a thing as too much worldbuilding? If so, at what point does that happen?

Is there such a thing as too much worldbuilding? If so, at what point does that happen?

After 234000 words. Or after 758 adjectives

Any worldbuilding is too much worldbuilding

Then how do you make sure your story has a believable world?

too much is too much. At the point that it becomes obnoxious. There shouldn't be pages of pages explaining details of the excessive taxation of outer colonies.

>tfw I just finished writing the second volume of Vermazorgue's penal code
fuck you

Write it in this one you actual literate

bummer for you

What the heck does "worldbuilding" even mean? Just straight exposition about details of your made up universe?

It happens when hundreds of books are written about the same fictional universe