ya, black forest is abit dicey when first getting there...

pick all the mushrooms, carrot seeds and thistle and save em. mushies and carrots make good early food and thistle will be used later. (always fence your crops. critters in base area destroy crops if can)

fire arrows for trolls. learning their patterns is key to timing shots while running. try and use landscape to make them path in circles giving more time to shoot.

i always place a workbench, firepit and box under the main copper ore chunk. then proceed to dig out vast area, down to bedrock and fairly large radius, leaving main ore chunk till last. (free shelter) should get around 100 copper per deposit. just gotta leave one path to hop out with. the workbench can handily repair first antler pick.

gotta have a shield for those skellie archers when going near/in dungeons. ya need 10 surtling cores to make smelter and charcoal kiln. if your super lucky, 1 dungeon can produce that many. usually takes 2 dungeons to get 10.