Originally posted by ThatTimGuy:

Silver will only spawn in the tallest mountains. It is possible to have low mountain biomes which will have no silver. In that case, you need to move on.

Stone Golems are only weak to pickaxes. You can find a way to get on top of their head and mine them, but staying on top is tricky. Otherwise, you can whittle them down with arrows (slow) or work up the nerve to parry their attacks and hit them while stunned (risky).

You will need to collect at least one of each ingredient and have a sufficiently leveled workbench to unlock those recipes. Make sure you've collected guck from the swamp, if you haven't already. Once you've smelted silver, everything else should already be in place.

Ah ok then silver is the only impediment. Since this particular mountain is only one mountain in the biome, I dont think theres any silver there. Finding mountain biomes has been hard in my world. Plains are everywhere though lol. I even just found the traveling merchant but havent found a silver bearing mountain biome yet.