Originally posted by Nightweaver20xx:

I just killed the big deer boy for the first time and I crafted a antler pickaxe and now it's telling me to go to the Black Forest. I go to the forest and smack rocks and all they give me is rocks, not copper. I assume the Black Forest is somewhere else?

Make the antler pick to mine copper ore from the Black Forest as well as tin. As soon as you mine tin and copper you get the recipe to build smelter and furnace for making coal from wood and turning ore into metal. Use the blacksmith table to combine copper with tin to make bronze. Bronze opens new recipes for weapons and armor.

Mining in Black Forest will open you up to troll attacks and troll raids. Bronze axe allows you to harvest fine wood from birch trees and core wood from pine trees. this will open new recipes for better bow, spear materials and building strength.