I love this game but trying to get a full set of gear is like trying to find gold in a granite mine. It takes forever to get enough materials for a piece of makeshift armor, but I mainly blame it on the RNG of the spawn. The only time I actually got a steady steam of Ironwood Branches and Tree Bark was when I let myself get caught by the Interlopers of the night (bc I was curious as to what would happen), and then I got the River Spawn when I went back into The Stream.
I feel like if we can get a somewhat increase to the spawn rate of the bark/ironwood it might make things a bit more fair. Which... ain't exactly much considering the fact that the armor did screw all against the pink lizard mini-boss. I did get the light gun though!