Originally posted by Daithos:

I haven't played in about a year, and I was told that old saves are no longer compatible (i.e. worlds will not update to the new updated zones). Would it be better to wait until the updated Mistlands, because I would hate to start now only to have to trash all my work all over again in 5-6 months from now.

Some things to understand perhaps first:

1. If you have come close to or explored biomes that have had updates, then yes, those locations will not be updated with the new items or features overall. However placed that are far from where you've explored and thus havent come close to exploring will have those sections updated. So if you've exposed your whole map, then yes a new map will be necessary.

2. Making a new map doesnt actually trash your work. Think of exiting 1 map and getting on another in a play session like a teleport/portal and this becomes less frustrating.

3. If you have not traveled far and wide on a map and gotten remotely close to the locations that have mistland biomes on your map, then the likelihood you'd need to move to a new map becomes less. However again, new map means it'd be guaranteed to have all new necessary spawns of stuff once the mistlands biome released.

4. There has been many various things added to the game since you were gone including addtions to biomes(ice caves and such in the snow biome is a perfect example but not the only one). You could make a new map now, explore and do stuff with the new map and then just make another new one once mistlands comes out. Many don't see that as a bad thing, especially if you like building. You can easily move items and resources from one map to another. The only thing you cant are tames but most of those take little time to replace. Or you can always opt to use admin commands to spawn in otherwise.

All in all things really are just going to depend on your willingness with choices.