Originally posted by Repix:

Ok, thank you very much for such an extensive explanation.
I'm obviously at point 5 and I'm afraid, in light of your answer, I should stay there because I hate starting from the beginning.
Again, thank you very much.

I think you misunderstand.

For example: we had ice caves implemented back months ago.

On maps that I had already explored mountain biomes, icecaves did not spawn.

On maps that I had cleared around the edges of mountains, 40% spawned caves after the update(again the map fog and the rendered by the game's considerations are different and this was well discussed after and before the update to many people.

On maps I never explored, the mountains, all caves spawned appropriately.

My character and its progress never ever had to start from the beginning.


This is all intentional by the devs so people -dont- have to start all over. There are no wipes in other words.


On the map that had explored stuff and x base, it was no biggie for me just to add another map(think like its a portal) and play on the new one post ice caves update. I just build a new base or two, move stuff from one map to the other if I wanted etc.

But my character still retained all the progress as before.