Originally posted by Crayzus:

I have spent hours looking for copper in the black forest and I can only ever find like 2 chunks. Then I mine half of it and my bags are full so I have to run back to my base and unload then run back again. But wait there is cold and stamina constantly drains slowing you down. Why is such a tedious game given Overwhelmingly Positive reviews?

You are going about Copper collection all wrong and iron will be harder.

An alternate idea would be find one of those towers in the BF or one of those rocks that look like Copper but are not that is near copper. Then get 4 cores create a small outpost drop a portal at the outpost. Now you can get back to base for sleeping, eating, repairing easy. Fill a box completely with copper. Once that is done make a cart fill cart take it home. Use axe break cart after empty. Take portal back to BF to hunt for Tin. Once inventory is full of tun drop cart load it keep going.

Do this and you will have a high amount of materitals in no time at all. If you can find copper by the ocean even better as the first real boat has 4 slots.

This is a survival game and so you need to learn ways to survive. It is no complicated but you do need to think outside that box sometimes. Also always good to consider alternate approaches if you find one is failing.