If you have died a bunch or manage to die successively in a manner that does reduce your skill points it is best to take your time and focus to level your critical ones to achieve the necessary results for the biomes you find yourself in, make a chest full of wood arrows and go to the meadows to slay everything, do that with your weapons and your shield for block, always keep an eye on your Rested buff and your food buffs, I recommend 2 stamina foods and a health food so you can chain more attacks after a good block as well as run and jump more and swim a bit longer, move up in biomes only when skills and gear are up to snuff, having surplus foods never hurts so you can stack the mats to make that while leveling skills in the easy biomes