I'll happily zone out doing nearly anything in the game, but mistlands makes me roll my eyes. it's not that it's hard per se, I have & can do everything I would need to survive there. it's just unpleasant. it hasn't grown on me like the other biomes have done. Swamp has weirdly become my favourite through mastery of its layout and mechanics, in spite of how sorely I hated it at first. I haven't had that with Mistlands, it remains a bothersome chore.

feels more like a weird expansion pack/DLC than something that was always intended as part of the fabric of the game. Mistlands largely disregards not only the previous progression flow, but also the main communicated interests of the players. it's kind of remarkable how much this patch was "mistlands, also fishing is really freaking weird now" and touched not a single variable in any of the content that came before.

it reminds me a little of how the previous small patches were "light armour sets and weird enemies who drop them" - a lump of new materials and the things they make - without adding any depth to the crafting trees from before. or the patch before that, hearth and home, which tried to fix what was never broken (the food-hp-stamina system) while adding super-expensive but purely-cosmetic build pieces.