Originally posted by vinyblaster:

Recommending iron weapons to enter the swamp is non-sense since you need to get into the swamp to get iron. You need to start with what you got from the previous biomes.

Your going to spend alot of time in the swamp and you're going to have your first iron weapon very early into that.

If we want to look at it as your first jaunt in and and you have no iron yet at all you want to have a bronze mace, bronze buckler, troll armor and a fine bow. Having a bronze atgir is not a bad idea either.