if you have iron you can make a crock pot which means you should have better food than just sausage. get some turnip stew or farm wheat and make fish wraps, or farm serpents or lox.


also uh.... what is "skeleton boss" ? yag? yeah you're gonna need more than iron sword for that xD
it sounds like you skipped mountain biome / tier weaps and went straight to plains; i did the same thing. Go to mountains and farm up that silver.




edit: ok bonemass; tbh, yes, you really do kind of need to wean him down with arrows (fire works good for this and is easy to make)
If you plan on doing that melee only, you better have some serious food and maybe gear and , in any case, you need stacks of pots unless you're like guy perfecto