trying to take shortcuts to find higher level stuff is a recipe for death. It may go well, sure, but the odds of something going wrong are much higher than the normal approach of earning it in order. Exceptions could be made for a boss fight, since right after the boss is the same gear you just had and welcome to next biome, but rushing to cheat silver before swamp is asking for trouble -- if you gonna do that, do it in iron armor but before bonemass.

moving a whole base is a big deal. You either need a dozen trips to haul all the stuff you needed or you start over and farm it and both stink. Its a lot less trouble to make a one room crafting shack, extract the local ore and make your gear. Eventually that means upgrading the shack to upgrade the gear though, so plan on having enough upgrades to craft the max tier... and you can make a quick but not full comfort rest area too, may as well (even a campfire with roof+ the rugs and a chair is pretty good).
warning, a crafting shack is seen as a full base and will be raided.