Next big update its mistlands , but not date for it yet
I think its for january/febrery

thanks

Probably a couple of minutes

There will be 2 small patches before mistlands. One is for the mountain biome will bring in caves and new enemy. Second is to do with ocean. Assuming items for boat, sails and such.

My thinking on the mistlands update is that H&H changed so much about the game mechanics I doubt there will be another update that changes so much. I could be wrong; but that's what I'm going with for now. So with that in mind I think that now is the perfect time to restart. As long as you don't explore past the halfway point towards the edge of the world you can play all the current content now and still do all the future content from that same world.

Q: Having beaten the game to death before H&H, is it worth coming back now?
A: Yes, I think so. So much about the game has changed and there are new structures to build at every stage of tech progression.