Originally posted by Adeptus Astartes:

I appreciate you guys. I have problems getting an bronze axe so i can build portals. Guess i'll head to the Swamp next which i found yesterday by accident and see, if i can find good stuff there.

what difficulty? you need a bunch of copper and tin, and a smelter. The smelter is built using something red you found exploring the tombs in the forest. You are expected to keep doing tombs & mining metal until you have enough. The minimum is still going to be about 50 units of bronze for your craft station upgrades, cultivator, axe, and pick even if you don't go for the armor & weapons (you should probably). That means 100 units of copper, + more for the copper only crafting station stuff, here about 125 or 150 copper bars total.
so the black forest should slow you down a bit; beating the boss is not the only goal here.

the swamp, you probably want to have totally upgraded gear before going there, but its doable if you don't mind dying with lesser gear. One good crypt gets you a long way in the swamp, and sneaking to one is viable. You may find you need a good 1000 or more units of iron from the swamp, and there really isnt any shortcuts here. Everything from swamp on uses a fair bit of iron. Even with iron armor etc, you STILL want the bronze crafting and household items. Skimp on it if you want but eventually you have to have these things.