OK so I just came back from my first trip into the Black Forest and wow is there some dangerous stuff in there. There's these poison trolls, ones that throw stones at you, ones that are "brutes" and hit REALLY hard, and skeletons around the crypt that I was just in. I snagged 2 surtling cores but I need FIVE for a smelter. I found some tin but could not find any copper because I was running around like crazy trying not to die to the horde of trolls on my a$$, and still ended up dying in the river near my house because I drowned. But I did my corpse run and got all my stuff back. I guess just git gud, scrub?