Originally posted by Fzanco:

Or you could just not farm. Makes it a lot easier and less bollocksing around in my opinion. Done a no portal, no farm, no static base run and worked beautifully, boat with carts was my caravan and I only cooked stuff that I found, no toiling in the fields for me

Sounds like 'no farming' is a hard mode option all by itself. I've been playing limited lives (permadeath or +1 life per boss kill) and the idea of voluntarily giving up HP and stam to avoid the farming aspect literally never occurred to me.

I'll have to investigate further, thanks :)