Honestly it feels like most posts complaining about the difficulty of the game comes down to being unprepared by not eating food or brewing mead.

Bonemass is too hard, shows screenshot of meadow tier food and bronze armor, Yagulth is impossible, shows no fire resistance mead or any healing potions. Bears are tearing me apart, why are you fighting a bear naked?! With your bare hands?! They're not bear hands so fight like a human and build a weapon and put on pants!