I beleave this is very individual depending on if it's the first time around playing it without checking things up how to do or not.
The second time around everything is alot easier.
It also depends on how much feelings you have on wanting to progress the game.
The more you stress the game, the more you feel the lack of progressing and starts to get annoyed by it IMO.

Depends on the seed. My wife and I farmed a Draugr spawn point for a full in game day, killed multiple elites and not one trophy. We have 2 games going one we have killed Yagluth and on that one we managed 4 Draugr elite trophies and our current game where we are in the plains in fully upgraded Silver/wolf armor and only 1 trophy. We decided not to world hop to get the trophies.

I am early in the game. Copper takes too much effort. A copper deposit is like a pie of metal and dirt. Too much time shovelling dirt. The rest is fine for now.

Now that I have built The Obliterator, in two major bases, I never use my charcoal kilns. I keep a chest in my treasury full of Dwarf Eyes & Resin. If these chests are full, I place overflow items of these reagents into The Obilterator, which turns all items into coal.

Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

Now that I have built The Obliterator, in two major bases, I never use my charcoal kilns. I keep a chest in my treasury full of Dwarf Eyes & Resin. If these chests are full, I place overflow items of these reagents into The Obilterator, which turns all items into coal.

There IS a use for dwarf eyes at one point, later in the game.

Wish they would add some kind of special greydwarf enemy that spawns later in the game during night and drops a lot of resin and eyes. Currently in the late game a lot of time is spent specifically farming resin and greydwarf eyes in black forest as they do not drop naturally while playing on the end game zones and you need a lot for torches and food.

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

Wish they would add some kind of special greydwarf enemy that spawns later in the game during night and drops a lot of resin and eyes. Currently in the late game a lot of time is spent specifically farming resin and greydwarf eyes in black forest as they do not drop naturally while playing on the end game zones and you need a lot for torches and food.

Make a graydwarf farm with a nest , its pretty easy

Originally posted by blankitosonic:

Make a graydwarf farm with a nest , its pretty easy

Yeah I have a few of those, but the output is not that great.

Silver. hands down the hardest thing to find for me.

Even the dark metal is easier to get.

I feel like I am the only one who lucked out and literally every swamp in my seed contains a bunch of Crypts... I cleared 7+ of them in one small swamp and filled a longship with iron scraps... not sure how much I'll even need if I ever get round to building anything with iron.

Funny enough the rarest materials for me are things like normal mushrooms and blueberries because I spend so little time roaming meadows and black forests now...

Easy: all items, most trophies
Hard (or better: time consuming): some trophies like elite draugr trophy

I've got about 30 bases in Meadows and Black Forest, many of them adjacent to other biomes. I try and equip them all the same with maxed Bronze Age utilities, boar farm, wolf farm, crops. I pretty much gather up everything, shoot anything, etc. like an obsessive hoarder. It's noticeable that the item and creature spawn density and frequency vary quite a bit within the same biomes. For example, seagulls are thick as flies on one coastal Meadows base while another one has a painfully low population. Same goes for pretty much everything else.
Since I haven't gone past Bronze Age I can't comment on iron, silver, etc.
To me I like the variability as it makes you move around and not just camp.

Chains are a pita, tar can be difficult if you explored a lot before h&h, and late game resin is a real pain. Not that getting resin is hard, but it is derived from cutting a lot of wood and if your building slows late game when you have built your bases adequately, then you don't have to cut as much...resin runs low if you use the resin burning lighting sources. Which you probably will since they don't have to be vented like the coal burners.
Leather and some of the above "easy" resources are running out of your ears by then.

Originally posted by Trakehner:

I'm imagining the lists will vary for people. A lot of it depends on luck of the seed. For me...

EASY:
- wood
- stone
- resin, guck, tar
- leather scraps
- core wood
- fine wood
- trophies (other than the stone golem)
- iron, dark metal, tin
- farmed foods

HARD :
- silver, copper
- freeze glands (#1)

Wood, stone and copper are basically infinite, it's just the time and effort to gather that's a thing. Silver takes more effort because of the biome its in, but I didn't find it tough to get all I wanted or needed.

I don't find much guck, but you don't need much. The drakes come in an endless supply, but they're easy to kill, and one drop per mob, and nothing else, makes them tedious and predictable.

I beleave this is very individual depending on if it's the first time around playing it without checking things up how to do or not.
The second time around everything is alot easier.
It also depends on how much feelings you have on wanting to progress the game.
The more you stress the game, the more you feel the lack of progressing and starts to get annoyed by it IMO.

I'm imagining the lists will vary for people. A lot of it depends on luck of the seed. For me...

EASY:
- wood
- stone
- resin, guck, tar
- leather scraps
- core wood
- fine wood
- trophies (other than the stone golem)
- iron, dark metal, tin
- farmed foods

HARD :
- silver, copper
- freeze glands (#1)