Originally posted by jonnin:

depending on your map, troll may be hard to get. Bronze is ensured, but trolls have to be found and are sometimes a rare critter. I had a full upgraded set of bronze long before I finished out my troll set (unupgraded) due to infrequent spawns... each map has its own oddities

True enough! Thankfully, despite the danger of a speck of Mountain biome near some of my Copper nodes, the Meadows I spawned in is basically surrounded by Black Forest on the North, East, and South. West is a small bit of Ocean that seems to connect to more Black Forest, given the placement of the Elder's marker.

I've encountered a couple Troll spawns out in the open, and about 5? caves that each had one, luckily enough.