Fields of Mistria’s one large downside is that its day cycle is basically fast — time strikes quick, and earlier than you understand it, it’s 2 a.m. and also you’ve handed out within the mines. The massive new replace launched on Nov. 18 doesn’t modify the cycle in any respect, nevertheless it has one new characteristic that I’ve discovered fairly useful: animal mounts. In case you’ve met sure necessities, you’ll have the ability to unlock a purple horse referred to as Mistmare.
After a windstorm, Hayden will ask for assist in discovering his weathervane, and when you search for it, you’ll discover a brand new statue. That’s the place you’ll unlock Mistmare for 100 essence. There are customization choices that’ll come later, however the advantages of Mistmare are speedy. She’s a horse, and horses are quicker than people. You may journey her wherever outdoors, which is wildly useful for getting round Fields of Mistria’s large map extra rapidly. Once more, it doesn’t resolve the sport’s downside with brief days, however I’ve discovered myself passing out a lot, a lot much less after I keep too late within the mines; I simply leap on Mistmare and rush again to the comforts of my very own mattress as an alternative of crawling by way of Mistria at a strolling velocity that looks like a glacier’s tempo if you’re racing the clock.
In accordance with the Fields of Mistria wiki, the size of an in-game day is 12 minutes and 30 seconds of real-world time. It goes by particularly quick if you’ve received quite a lot of animals to are inclined to; it’s very simple to spend half of the day going from barn to barn accumulating eggs or milk, petting the animals, then feeding them. Put that on prime of a comparatively sluggish stroll velocity and you could discover little time to do different chores, like watering and harvesting crops, preventing monsters within the mines, or rising relationships with the opposite Mistrian residents. Mistmare can’t assist in quite a lot of these areas, save lowering the time it takes to get across the city, however she is useful for harvesting crops, too: After unlocking Mistmare, you’ll be able to unlock different skills by giving essence to the horse statue. 2 hundred essence will increase your mount’s motion velocity by 10%, whereas 190 essence will give your mount the flexibility to reap crops and dig spots just by working over them. No additional clicks! (Unrelatedly, 205 essence allows you to journey any massive animal that you just’ve received greater than 5 hearts with.)
Total, Mistmare is a small a part of the large replace, however one which’s been an ideal quality-of-life enchancment that’s made the already distinctive early entry sport even higher. Alongside this adjustment, the large addition is romance: Now you can earn as much as six hearts with single residents, plus there’s a brand new, romantic Capturing Star Pageant in summer season. I’m in spring in my sport, so I’ve but to check out the pageant, however I’m additionally engaged on romancing March, Celine, and Juniper to ask considered one of them to hitch me on the mountain peak. I’ve but to set off any new romance quests — I’m caught at 5 hearts with all three — however I’ve loved seeing new dialogue whereas working my means by way of the seasons.
Fields of Mistria remains to be in early entry, and NPC Studio expects the sport to remain there for no less than a 12 months. Past the large content material updates, the studio points smaller ones that repair bugs and such.
