I'm dying through stamina. for a system that requires the player to manage it (food, time of day rested) which we can all work with, it really doesn't like you using it.

It still drops you in situations you cannot 'manage'.

My last two big ones that are causing me to drop the game was one before H&H, trying to fight Moder on a mountain top which I was given in that seed. Even with Landscaping, the spawns of drakes and the stamina cost of trying to jump around navigating a mountain biome was just too much and then running into a random Golem, just took anything enjoyable out the game. It's not that I don't want to die. It's part of the game. But it's the being left in positions of helplessness that feel are no fault of your own.

And the second just happened.

I started a new seed for H&H after my arse ache with Moder (This is with silver everything btw, and upgraded everything) and I whilst I was using my last char with decent armour I could already see how hard this would be without decent armour.

Mining copper in wolf gear, grey dwarves are an annoyance. But mining as a new player must be nigh on impossible right now.

But anyway, played through the biomes building up my bases again. Got meadow, forest and swamp on my home island. I'm good to go for the longboat and find Mountain and Plains.

So, I land on a Forest/Plains border land. Start laying down the foundations of a new base, just quick, need to get that portal up but I've had them destroyed before so wanna protect it.

This is in daylight, picking off the the odd greydwarf and fuling. No drama, I've not pushed the map because I don't wanna agro anything.

But I must have disturbed something whilst flattening an added bit of land as I get a black ooze strike from nowhere. Had no idea it was there. Even with wolf armour, thats a massive hit. Then before I know it, I'm getting a fuling swarm, I'm trying to run away, I'm trying to get back to the long ship. I'm done on stamina, I'm just missing fuling swings trying to get that little bit of stamina.

And then I run into more greydwarves, they just appear from nowhere. It was a Deathmozzie that done me. Just watched it coming across my screen, and I just thought 'I think thats that then, time to put this game back down'

I can't run, I can't move, I can't do anything. THATS the frustrating element of this game. The feeling of utter uselessness through no fault of your own.

So, yea, Whilst I can sort of grasp the new stamina food system, the world isn't built to work with it. It drops you in the crap too much and no matter how well you have 'managed' your stamina and location, your gear and you're ability the game will just screw you over.

It's like trying to appease someone who is never happy. I've got enough people in my life I can't please, without having a game get me asking 'what else do you want me to do?' as well.