My hunt for the first Swamp was gruesome.

I have a small island, first swamp very small with one dungeon, and can constantly gleem materials as they keep fighting each other between Meadows and Swamp, a little patch of dark forest on edge.

To find a descent swamp to find more iron entailed, two serpent deaths at sea, 3 abominations, multiple Plains, and out running a pack of wolves after finding a mountain that is like 1/4 of my discovered map Everest you so small.

I was nowhere ready for the Swamp Biome let alone the other encounters. They have upped the ante on encounters, and for me, painful but worth the effort imho