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You take it slow.
You stay only during the day.
You raise the ground using the hoe to make pathways.
You leave campfires as beacons along the pathways(some do this some dont.)
You always have best food you can for your being there.
You keep poison resist potions on you and used until you kill enough abominations for the mask.

Dig out the ground around surtling fires so spawns of surlings hit the water instead and instantly die.

If you encounter an abomination, fire arrows work well and standing on the top of the crypts in the swamp is out of their reach. They'll run away but come back so just shootem til dead. Make the mask first so you can be more resistant to poison.

Drauger/skel spawn points range as well and again used crypts or high ground if needed(you can always raise a column of the ground that way.

In the crypts mine the mud carefully so as to let you see what's in the rooms but allow you to not get attacked if need be. You can use stagheim which will aoe through the mud too but it will also knock out the torches(minor thing). Later when you can make an iron sledge and upgrade it, this method will kill stuff in the crypts pretty fast. Also in the crypts if you get in a bind, go to the ledge just at the entrance, they cant get you there(cept blobs jumping occasionally). Also set a campfire at that ledge to dry off/rest if needed.

Consider putting covered workbenches at the top of crypts and a chest or two so you can store things you get in the crypts and also cut down on spawns in the vicinity. You can also store stuff in chests in the crypts too but not as convenience as on top of the crypts(top level mind you).

Make sure to keep a look out for turnip plants for seeds for farming for better food.

Some opt to make a smelting base in the swamp by finding a close group of indestructible trees and either building up in the trees or raising the ground between them (to make the walls of the base) and then building a roof above that. Works best when trees are in a circle. This way you can smelt what get as cores are easy from surts and coal as well. Then it makes it easier to make items and thus have to later transport less iron bars.

If you take on bone mass, its an extremely easy fight if you raise the ground in a 2x2 plot to its max height(or hope atop the skull though that's riskier a bit), then use a fully upgraded iron sledge to pound the ground on the raised plot. Jumping blobs usually cant get you and aoe gets them and boss pretty easily. Alternatively some take him head on with full iron and poison resist potions and a fully upgraded iron mace and shield instead.

Another method is get inside an indestructible tree near bonemass after spawning him(you can dig out from under it) and then using spikes and repairing/making more as needed(but you have to be careful about a workbench placement for that method. Its a slow method but one favored by passive fight runs.

And there are other methods of course.

If you encounter wraiths early on(they're usually common at night but if you get near a shack they'll get you in the day sometimes), parry with a shield or run/range them.