Originally posted by Nightweaver20xx:

Found the Elder marker, it was right on the other side of a stone tower I already searched earlier today. It's pretty far out, maybe across water, I don't know. But I also made a bronze axe and finewood bow and some furniture, so I'm getting there. :p

grats on the progress :)

i found it useful to keep portal materials in the boats storage. dropped on every so often and was able to go back to baecamp at night. If there isn't a player in the area you leave your boat and portal in the game doesn't update the area so no mobs spawn to attack your stuff.

As to the boss beign far away. When I found the swamp boss it was literally on the oposite side of the world from where i was at the time, right near the edge. And then the mountain boss was way up at near the top. Next land mass above it was Frozen North. The RNGoddess was having some fun :)