Wolves can be largely avoided by travelling during the day and keeping the golems around. Once a silver vein is spotted dig DEEP so that enemies can't chase you. Deep spots are pretty safe so they're great places to set up portals for easy recovery. It's also more fun to pop a silver vein by digging under and collapsing it.

Wolf combat is fairly tricky. They have some of the fastest attacks so blocking is tricky. Their short hitboxes combo with mountain steepness to make them the most difficult targets to hit. Bonemass is effective for powering through, but wolves are fairly fragile and can be sniped with decent bow skills.