its better when you move around, but in the same area it can be low or if you sleep at all.
More stamina foods and faster to go around + buffs, else it sucks with boars later on anyways, until you find "those spawns" that will give a ton of resources over time.

At times boars can seem like a pain, and same with ore spawns when you need a good amount of it. Which mashed together with the traveling system... eeh.
Iron can be easy to get, feel like its a bit better than copper when you first found some dungeons, but after that and with no respawns? that kind of sucks.

But very forced way to get iron, but like the option of dungeons giving ore, also a lot of ore from the one I found.

Also deer suck if you dont get an bow early on, throwing spear could work too.