Originally posted by ShaftAlmighty:

Killing Battery-powered Bambi nets you hard antlers. You use these to make your first pickax.

With the pickax, you mine copper and tin. These deposits are found in the Black Forest and they both look far different than the other.

With these two ore types, you can create bronze, at this point you have reached the bronze age.

After this you should notice a pattern in the game gear-wise.

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Just be careful in the black forest. Until you get better gear, you're going to a little underpowered compared to the stuff in there.

Be on constant lookout for trolls, you can usually see them very far away. Sometimes they stand still too, especially while on the shoreline. I've nearly blundered into one or two just because I expected to see them moving. I literally said to myself once "oh, that's a cool statue... wait". Wasn't a statue.

Stay out of the black forest at night, it's crawling with grey dwarf enemies, until you gear up a bit.

Another thing to look out for are burial chambers. usually a henge (big flat rocks standing upright, like stonehenge), and a small building made of stone slabs with stairs leading down. Also guarded by skeletons usually. You want to explore those. You'll get some good loot, treasure, kill more skeletons, and find another crucial material surtling cores, look like red and black cubes. You need them to make furnaces and portals, both super important items