You discovered how biomes and difficult spike works , maybe you didnt notice hugin when advise you in black forest that there are dangerous place after there
This game isnt just a walk simulator , there is creatures with a kind of difficult
The mega stones where you spaen are there to tell something , not just a thing to hang boss heads

if you ever stick yourself in a bad spawn spot just destroy bed and die again you start at stones

good quality food is very crucial for survival. plain & mountain are extremly dangerous without proper preparation & logistic

Meadows > Black Forest > Swamps > Mountains > Plains. This is the area progression,

Gain Troll armor. Farm various foods. Honey, meat, berries, whatever keeps your health and stamina up. Explore the Black Forest for bee hives. Rudolph, the 9-volt reindeer is a pushover regardless of gear. Kill it and gain the antler for mining.

Scour the edges of the Black Forest for Tin deposits and in the forest for Copper. My advise, armor-wise, is skip Bronze armor as it isn't worth it. Use the tin, copper, and bronze for the quality of life items like food improvement and weapons.

Next, make poison resist potions. Once you do this, you can enter the swamps(never enter the swamps without poison resists). Explore the area for crypts, mark them on you map, and return home. Crypts hold iron. Iron is your next armor/weapons material, as well as other things.

You should be well off around this time. Good luck.

Alright guys, thanks for the advice. I kind of didn't want to go into the swamp because it seemed like such a gloomy and hostile area with lots of enemies and nowhere to hide, just water all around. But I guess that's where I must focus my attention on more.

Just don't give me too much tips because part of the fun is also not knowing :)

Originally posted by birdman6950:

if you ever stick yourself in a bad spawn spot just destroy bed and die again you start at stones

Useful tips actually, didn't know about that. Thanks.

There are many steps to exploring that should be observed before exploring. The rundown for exploring in a way which you are not screwed goes as follows:
-Make two sets of gear, don't skimp on gear. I may not carry every weapon type but i have a couple tucked away somewhere.
-Sailing should be done while only carrying the materials to make a workbench and portal. Food of course for making sure your not lunchmeat on landing. But do not wear your good gear while sailing, also always have a pick capable of scraping barnacles. Other than that, nothing else.
-When you come ashore from sailing, try to land in a meadow if possible. Put down your portal and build a defensive pit around it with your pick. Double trench if you feel a troll or something bigger might wander nearby. The pick and hoe are your friends, you can dig pits and elevate your building site for extra safety.
-Once you got your portal setup with necessary defenses you take the portal back to your main base. This is key here, always have a pairing portal back at your main base. It may seem odd to have a metric ton of portals sitting around but it will save you time. This allows you to get some food in you after a death and put on minimal gear to recover your gear and pop out somewhere and hit the ground running.
-Boss fights are not always fought with your weapons, I personally find the summoning altar and formulate a plan! Remember you can jump but most mobs do not, therefore an earthen wall made by your hoe can be jumped by you after spawning and the boss may not even detect you. It sounds cheesy but if your alone some of these bosses are not kind, therefore most boss fights are fought with a 2 handed hammer after prepping the site for the fight. This works for all the current bosses but moder, moder is her own beast.

Honestly you don't need corpse run gear in the majority of situations, just good stamina food and Ethel's sprint power. The moment you tap that gravestone you're in unstoppable Zoidberg escape mode.

There's a reason why you land in the meadows first. Then progress to black forest, swamp , mountain then plains. Each biome has a boss which you must beat before heading to the next biome.

Good food is key
Armor is nice and all but some silly critters can one-shot you anyway without a good lifepool

I don't like the ridiculous damage output in an imprecise game like this but oh well.

Make sure to have portals to Islands and every new region (far away) u visit. Don't visit new bioms without preparation.

After spamming ships to cross the ocean to gey my stuff back I learned my lesson.