Originally posted by Ultradad:

The fact that you can move your character means you can easily jump start your progress on a new world by bringing mats/gear over from your existing world. So you never really have to "start over" all the way.

I really like that your character and world are separate just like how Terraria is set up (makes it a lot easier to farm for materials). I see your point and if it came to that then yeah, that would soften the blow quite a bit.