Originally posted by Jeemoo11:

So I just beat the first boss. I have a flint spear, a wooden shield, a crude bow and leather armour all at level one (bow at 2). I cant seem to handle the skeles. I also dont have the dmg output to take out any nests. Any advice? Am I undergeared for the forest?

A bit of a spoiler in terms of content, read at your discretion
The best weapon for the Black Forest, specially against skellies in dungeons, is the Stagbreaker. Craft it asap by getting core wood from pines in the Black Forest and gather the rest of the materials that you can find in the Meadows. With it you can kill skellies in dungeons through the walls and doors. Just hit them blindly when you find a door and the area effect will kill them. When you bast the ground with it and you don't see damage numbers the room is clear. This is obviously a bit of a cheese tactic and can make you develop bad combat habits but if skellies are giving you trouble it's very effective to get some easy cores.

For the skellies outside you just wind up the hit when they're about to get close (don't wait for them to be close enough to attack, they'll have higher attack speed). If there are skellie archers just hide behind trees and they'll come after you, then you bash the floor with the Stagbreaker as usual.

You can find bones in the Meadows if you look for ceremonial stones (those stone structures that look like small huts or something). They usually have some laying around. You can go for the troll armour instead by crafting plenty of fire arrows but I personally decided to never harm trolls again.