Originally posted by Grailoch:

So, this is my first play through. With leather armor and a crude bow, Eikthyr dropped me 2 times before I was able to get behind a big oak tree and slowly start whittling him down from either side of it with the bow. Since then, I think I have got somewhat better at block/parry so likely would fair better if I rolled a new toon.

But, Here is where I am at. I have a converted meadow village base right at edge of the Dark Forrest. It is moated around and fully secure from the raids I have seen. I have cleared many of the crypts and have upgraded Troll armor and bronze weapons/tools as much as I can get them without having iron for the next workstation/forge upgrades. i have 2 small carrot gardens and have just started a boar farm with 2x 1 star boars. I found the trader and purchased the endurance belt.

Do I go for the Elder or just do things like skill up on dwarf spawners/crypts that I still have on starter Isle? Also, I do have a small mountain biome on my home island. I have tried a couple time to lure wolfs into a pit I made just outside the zone, but they seem to despawn when crossing the zoneline. I could set up camp just inside zoneline and try again.

I guess I should just do Elder and have the option of getting into iron age and stop p#$$&-footing around.

What do you think?

My first fight with elder(and I didn't die either), I earth walled elder's platform, lined with with spikes and the floor with fires. I build an earthen platform, walled in arrow range of elder's spawn and built a base on it with the base making it tight to not allow roots to spawn mostly. I built doubled wall barriers on either side of my shot spot to dodge behind his ranged attack.

Spawned him, and by the time I ran to my shot spot, he was already down a third of his health because of his spawn spots fires and spikes. I just arrowed him down from there.

I could've just as easily foregone the spikes/fires and just arrowed him where he was instead or just done the dodge behind pillar methods most YT folks do but I wanted to see how my attempt would go.