i hope you improved drop rate off that wood you need for first tent upgrade otherwise we will NOT see the new Lani additions you have added since the drop rate for wood is extreemly LOW
Wood is intended to be collected over multiple lives. Just need to go to a location, fight long enough to discover everything, die, then do the one-click collect and save the items you need between lives. Feel free to cheese it and die a dozen times on day 5. Doesn't take more than a few minutes.
Like cucumber said, it only takes a few minutes to collect wood, just tank a few deaths for auto collection and you got a bunch of wood. Not a grind imo
