[2023] Seems like a perfect time to play it!

The next update has a lot of new things, including several additions to world gen. You should be able to load your previous saves, but it's likely the world terrain for an old save might be slightly different. This might cause things like generated trees to be different that what you initially see in your old save.

Hey, thanks so much for the kind words. Lots of really cool stuff coming in very soon. There's a new playable race, and I've improved a lot of the UI based on player feedback. I'm in the process of testing and tuning right now which is taking me some time. Hope to have the update in a month or so.