Otherwise, craft a shield to go with your axe. They need feathers, which you get from shooting birds, and very occasionally when cutting down trees. Craft Fire arrows if you prefer ranged combat.You can fit many cooking racks over one fire. Build Cooking stations over your camp fire, roast the meat from the deer and boars for more stamina and health.This lets you build your own beehives, which generate one honey per day, an excellent healing food for the boss fight (heals only 1 hp per tick as of Hearth and Home update.) If you hit them with a melee weapon, the bees will poison you. Find some abandoned houses with Beehives in them.Also craft a Tanning rack to upgrade your gear further. With the deer hides, craft leather armor.Once you aquire the next bow, arrow drop will significantly decrease. You need to aim quite a bit above them to compensate for arrow drop. Also craft a Chopping block to upgrade your gear to level 2.With the Leather scraps from the boars, craft a Crude Bow and arrows.Hunt boars by running up behind them and whacking them with the axe.It will be your main weapon and tool for some time. Pick up Flint on the beach, craft a Flint axe with it.The fire needs space above it for the smoke to evacuate.

Build a basic shelter covering and at least partially enclosing the bench, a Bed and a Campfire.

When you find a camping spot, get set up.

As you explore, pick as many Raspberries and Mushrooms as you can.Eat them regularly to get a small bonus to maximum HP and healing over time.

It does not have to be particularly defensible at this time, but close to a coast is preferable for access to flint.

Now, explore a bit to find a nice spot for your first camp. Be wary when near the border of other biomes. Attention: Falling trees are more dangerous at this stage than anything else in the meadows. Use it to defend against Greylings and Boars, and to chop down trees to get wood faster.

Craft a Stone axe from wood and stone.

Get Stone by picking small rocks off the ground.

Get Wood by picking up branches or punching small trees.

Age progression chart