That excitement you have for your shiny new idea won’t last forever.
You need pages and relationships with your characters and story progress to keep you motivated, not little details about the color of water or the decor in a bedroom.
I have pages and pages of worldbuilding for a story that hasn’t gotten past act one.
That’s not great. It doesn’t feel great either.
Learn from my mistakes.
These are the five essentials of worldbuilding. Everything else can wait until later.