I am struggling with Stamina also, the issue isn't how much stamina have; it's how fast it's drained. One chop of a log uses about twenty, so I'm out of stamina fast.
I love building, and only use the cheat codes on one World with one character, the rest I just chop and Build, rinse and repeat, and I'm finding this exceedingly frustrating since H & H. (Yes, I'm using stamina food; I don't need HP unless I fall off a roof! :D)

I've put over 1300 hours into this game, a lot of that spent building in Survival, and I cannot remember this issue being so desperate previously.