Originally posted by HeikoFennec:

So as much as I've played the game I too often fail. The latest was a loss when goblins from what is now clear to be a too close plains biome killed me mid-build of a base, thus removing access to the gear, resources and my ship. So how best then to go? I barely found enough iron to assemble an axe and shield as well as a torso armor, furthermore trying to pin down a decent source of the materials.

suggestion: before entering a new biome\location make sure that you have a quick way to reach it. either you have a spawn point or teleport nearby.

and if something will kill you and you see no way to reclaim the corpse you can always try to use corpse run (place 1 item into inventory. die. then when you'll retrieve this corpse you'll get a buff for 50 sec. eat some food and don some previous tier armor to be safe. activate the buff and run to get your items back (or kill stuff that prevents you from getting them). in a worst case you can suicide multiple times to have the means to refresh the buff.

ps: /killme in chat helps with suiciding. and after 1st death you will not loose skill points for 10 minutes