uhm, is building game... so... BUILD

First thing I did in mountain biome was carve a trail up to the top area. Smooth path, with markers and lights.

Second, was carve a big chunk of the mountain down, until it had sheer sides, then built a shack on top. With a portal. Ended up building 4 more shacks eventually.

All with portals.

So corpse runs became "portal-in-and-then-get corpse" runs. Which still sucked, but were much more manageable.

Whine less, build more.