I agree that ML was quite challenging and I can understand the frustration some players will get there. I wouldn't play it solo. I think it is better playing with a friend because you can discuss tactics. Me and my friend play on a private server. We had a hard time establish a portal at ML. We found a big island with no surrounding other biomes so we had to go with this. We dug a hole under one of the big rocks beeing instantly bombarbed by gjals.

We died a few times. It was frightning not seeing your enemies and hearing those creepy crawlers around you but it also gave a good chilling adventure.

After we found out, that we can make a wisplight, things went much better. We kept exploring this island while following some blue lanterns in the distance and found the first crypt. We found our first crystal and died by a bunch of seekers and a onestarseeker on our way home. The stamina draining was terrible. So we returned rested, with good food, stamina and health potions (don't forget fire potions) and took our revenge. We decided to attack a dvergr outpost but that was a very bad idea beeing oneshotted by a crossbow. Lessons learned. So we needed the stuff they had and waited till the outpost was decimated by seekers and a gjal and finally got an extractor.

So tbh ML is not that very much like the other biomes. You had to improvise, adapt and overcome. First the mist seems annoying but there are always some mistfree areas. IMO ML landscape is quite a beauty if you are standing on top of some of the large rocks while the sun raises (should set lodbias to a minimum of 5).

The best thing is the new cape: having a 2star seeker chasing you, just jumping from the top of a rock and flying away like batman ...you should have seen the look in his compound eyes.