I love the cart. But there is a trap built into it, and it is very easy to fall into. You see all those inventory slots and think I CAN FILL THESE AND DRAG IT. You then wonder why you can not move the wagon.

You can pull a wagon weighing 1000 over just about anything, take a pick or hoe just in case. 1200 and you need to watch for places you will get stuck but some of those you can still sprint thru. Ore gets heavy fast, wood a little less so, food items as an example you can carry a great deal of because of it's low weight per piece.

For trips you are going to have to make multiple times clear a path, develop a road of sorts. This is how and why roads ever existed to begin with.

At the end of the day the wagon is a useful tool as long as you understand YOU have to drag it and you only have so much strength to do so.