it is pretty tough, 1 stars are almost a guarantee death sentence. and I hate running out of stamina trying to climb all the time, i use 2 stam foods and 1 health food. We built a couple of portals in the plains right next to the mist and just kind of ran around the edges getting a few seekers and looking for a dungeon. Really tough to find them, look for building with seekers on top of it. Everything changes once you have the new forge, the crossbow is a gamechanger.