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With "work [...] started" I'm referring to the whole dev team focussing and working on Mistlands. Not just one person, in this case mostly Richard, experimenting with ground textures (October 2021) or terrain generation (November 2021). In February 2022, they were more or less done with nailing down the concept of the Mistlands, this got announced too (along with a little concept art). In early March 2022, work fully started on the new biome, Mistlands.

I hope this gives some more insight!

Originally posted by vinyblaster: Where is the quote for this 6 to 9 months estimate? Cause Mistlands has been in the work for longer than that.

Work on Mistlands started in March 2022. The 9 months per biome are a rough estimate.

What Yakumo said. Seasonal items are seasonal items.

Jack-o-turnip will be added soon!

On a PC your saves will be stored in the same folder regardless of whether you're playing through Steam or with PC Game Pass, so you can theoretically easily switch over from one to the other. However, I would recommend choosing one platform and sticking to it (rather than switching back and forth continuously) in order to avoid conflicts with Cloud saves.
As for getting your saves over to Xbox, this should also work as the two Game Passes share the same Cloud service. You will need to play it with PC Game Pass first though, to get the saves from your computer to the Xbox Cloud, before you can access them from your console (you can't go directly from Steam to Xbox). Once again though, you should still choose either Game Pass or Steam, so that the two Cloud services don't try to conflict with each other.
The good thing about crossplay though is that it doesn't matter which you choose - you'll still be able to play with your friends regardless of whether you're all on conso... Read more

Please post your suggestions over in the Suggestions & Ideas subforum.

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by Tyrael: Nobody is freaking out but probably annoyed and think IG stopped game dev to work on cross platform but im pretty sure they had a separate team do it. At least I hope so or I'll be among the annoyed that all we did was fund a console port for an unfinished game.

But again im about 99% sure they had a different team do the crossplay

That is my understanding as well. The console part was outsourced.

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Hi! First of all, console is still a ways away (the release on the 29th is for PC Game Pass, while Xbox won't be released until early 2023).
As for patching, we will still keep the Public Test Branch in use, as we think it's a good way to let some users try out stuff before everyone gets access to it. Both testing and releasing will always be done with both multiplayer and singleplayer - no build will be locked to only allow solo play.
And it should only be the bigger updates that need thorough checking and validation before release, while hotfixes should still be possible to release on shorter notice. Even if hotfixes would need to be checked, it shouldn't affect the Default version of the game much, as it's ideally only the PTB that will be unstable. And the validation time isn't very long either, so there's no cause for worry! :)