Originally posted by Damnion:

I've got swamp foods, but I prefer 2 stam 1 health, especially in mountains where you have to burn all your stamina climbing straight up a slope. It's really annoying that they tied blocking to max health.
On a side note, ice caves are way too easy. I saw a post of someone complaining about them and I don't know why. I went and cleared one with an abyss dagger and iron gear. The bat's are only slightly annoying b/c you have to wait for em to get close, and the wolven are laughably easy.

Sounds like you didnt encounter the cultists who use fire balls and flame jets on you or the occassional golem in the large lower cavern cave iterations.

However, there are some ways to handle those too obviously hehe.

As for "climbing straight up". You could also take the time to make trails that zig zag up steep inclines too so that while it takes one a few seconds longer to get up a mountain, one's stamina/progress is not as much of an issue.