Mistfall Hunter, the dark fantasy PvPvE extraction ARPG from Bellring Games, does reset player progress on a recurring schedule. Wipes are a core part of how the game keeps its loot economy and matchmaking healthy, so understanding what disappears and what survives matters before you sink hours into a season.
Quick answer: Yes, Mistfall Hunter uses seasonal wipes on a roughly three-to-four-month cycle. Characters and inventories reset at the start of each new season, while certain long-term progression systems carry over.
What a seasonal wipe resets in Mistfall Hunter
A season in Mistfall Hunter runs about three to four months. When one ends, the game clears the bulk of your account-side progress so everyone starts the next season from the same baseline. This is the developers’ stated method for preventing economic inflation and keeping the extraction loop competitive.
The reset targets your active progression, which means the loot, currency, and characters you built up during the season do not travel forward untouched. The goal is a fresh starting point rather than a permanent ladder that snowballs across every season.
| Detail | Status |
|---|---|
| Seasonal wipes | Confirmed |
| Season length | Roughly 3–4 months |
| Characters and inventories | Reset at season change |
| Some long-term progression | Carries over |
| Full wipe details | Not yet revealed |
What survives a wipe
Not everything gets erased. The developers have confirmed that specific long-term progression systems persist between seasons, so a wipe is not a complete account reset back to zero. The exact list of what stays and what goes has not been fully detailed.
Cosmetics are the clearest example of items that stay tied to your account rather than being wiped. Fate Coins, the game’s premium currency, buy cosmetic items only and carry no gameplay advantage, and the game is built with no pay-to-win mechanics or paid stat boosts. Because those purchases are cosmetic, they are not part of the competitive reset.
Why Mistfall Hunter wipes at all
Extraction games live and die by their economy. When rare gear and currency pile up over time, new and returning players struggle to compete against hoarded stockpiles. Seasonal wipes flatten that gap by putting the whole population back on equal footing at the start of each season.
The reset also feeds directly into Mistfall Hunter’s seasonal content model. Each season shifts the rules of survival and can introduce new classes, forbidden arcana, uncharted zones, and relics, so a clean slate gives players a reason to re-engage with fresh systems rather than coasting on old power.
The beta wipe versus seasonal wipes
Before launch, Mistfall Hunter ran an open beta that functioned as a wipe test. All gameplay progress from that period was deleted and did not carry into the full release. The one exception was exclusive beta cosmetics, which stayed tied to player accounts and became available at launch.
That beta wipe was a one-time clearing tied to testing, not the same thing as the ongoing seasonal cadence. The seasonal wipes are the recurring version that will keep happening every few months now that the game has released.
| Wipe type | When it happened | What it cleared |
|---|---|---|
| Open beta wipe | End of the pre-launch test | All beta progress; cosmetics kept |
| Seasonal wipe | Every ~3–4 months | Characters and inventories; some progression kept |
How to plan around a wipe
Treat each season as a self-contained run. Since characters and inventories reset, there is little reason to hoard gear or currency indefinitely near the end of a season, because those spoils will not carry into the next one.
Cosmetic purchases are the safe long-term investment, since they persist across seasons and offer no competitive edge either way. If you want progression that endures, focus on the systems confirmed to carry over rather than the loot that gets cleared. Because the complete reset list has not been published, avoid assuming any specific item is permanent until it is confirmed.
