youre about to enter the worst biome in this game for now. no jokes. swamp is the worst. youll constantly have a stamina penalty due to WET status beeing auto applied just by beeing inside this biome even if it doesnt rain and you arent in water.

DO NOT BRING A BOAT NEAR A SWAMP unless you have secured a landing side for it. especially not at night. wraiths will ruin your boat and your day if you do that. swamp is the worst biome in the game to land a boat on because of wraiths and leeches.

establish a small base for your portal. near the shoreline towards open ocean. once you have established that you now have a site for your boat to land later to transport the tons of iron scrap back home. since iron is needed for freaking EVERYTHING even lategame its still in high demand you wanna plunder the crypts and then bring the iron to your boat. set sail once boat is full. (use longship once you got 10 iron it can transport ALOT more and is faster)

once youre stronger the swamp becomes less painful. but first times there is plain cancer.