Originally posted by Bjorn:

yeah mistlands update was the point were the game shifted from hard/challenging to tedious/tiresome for me and i also had no plains biome connected to the mistlands i found so far

its nice that you can find scraps of previous metals in the mistlands but even with the whisps i still find it horrible to build in there and i think its time for some qol updates, like upgradeable portals or so

I suspect they tried to slow down the pace with Mistlands since it'll be 6-12 months before we get another update so they wanted to make it "last". When viewed from the perspective of playing it for that length of time, taking 30 minutes to explore 50m in front of you starts to seem reasonable.

I think the intended approach initially was for players to use those blue mist lamps to clear the way, which i did for a time building paths with them.

Unfortunately Gjalls etc are programmed to attack those, which utterly defeats the purpose of building them as i left a breadcrumb trail right to my base.