Tenacity and perseverance are what make the adventure.

My world seed were barren of iron and took me almost 200days to find my first swamp. My first two swamps (Medium) had no Iron. My second swamp (Large) had just barely enough iron to make 1 Iron Pickaxe. From then on, I actually found more Silver Veins in my travels than I did Iron.

It wasn't until about day 4xx that I would find a swamp with crypts which yielded an amazing 300+ iron.

The trip was exhausting, as my travelling boat then was a simple Karve, one that had survived many attacks from rogue Deathsquito's chasing me out to sea.