i have seen that there is a mod that works on servers like ours too that makes it possible to sort of regenerate the old explored areas with the new content that was added later, so if the majority wants we can just "refresh" the current world instead of starting anew, cause if we were to start a new world we might as well wait for the game to be done and delete our current characters as well so all of us can start from zero
here's the mod that i saw a while back
Upgrade World at Valheim Nexus - Mods and community
WWW.NEXUSMODS.COM
This single player mod allows regenerating or adding new content to already explored areas.For dedicated servers, open the world in single...
I'm looking forward to actually getting back into everything Valheim tbh! We may need to look at it and see what to build/do/explore and even think if we need a new world - maybe thats more for when we get to the next big patch me thinks.