here lemme give you some insight rq, Basically this was my first playthrough and i didn't know about planting crops til the very end of autumn so i only got like one batch of crops out and lost my stockpile of food about 3/8ths of the way through winter. During the summer i had found a massive hematite and cassiterite node in the south, so i had access to get to the iron age almost immediately after the copper age. My world seed is extremely unique as there are two to three other cassiterite nodes near my base, i got extremely lucky with default settings on my first playthrough. Dw about not understanding stuff, people will pretty much always care about explaining things! (or at least i do.)