Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Where exactly is the problem?

Make a temp shelter when traveling maybe?

Upgrade your equipment?

Problem #1: No Tin to upgrade my equipment
Problem #2: Incessant harassment by fauna when looking for tin causing bronze equipment to break.
Problem #3: No tin to make a forge to fix the bronze equipment "locally" to the ore
Problem #4: Upgrading equipment seems to level up the fauna
Problem #5: Trolls in meadows and near ore
Problem #6: The equipment, even at the maximum level for the character is severely inadequate.

Anyway to reduce the difficulty?

If I wanted to struggle for "fun" I would just do something in real life.