I’ll retract most of this post. It was written in a fit of rage.
I will say you guys need to seriously reconsider your design of the volcano area. There are several spots where if you get down, you can’t get back up because it becomes impossible to climb due to anything above ‘very hot’ you take damage.
So essentially you become stuck, not because you were necessarily unprepared, but because the area is very poorly designed considering how some mechanics work, namely climbing. This needs to be adjusted.
I should still be able to climb if I’m very or extremely hot. Heat stroke, I can understand… But anything below that… There’s no excuse why I shouldn’t be able to pull myself up out of a hot mess so to speak.
You also need to consider working on some spawn nodes for gold other than just the volcano, there are several for silver. Desert, jungle, ect… There need to be more for gold since it’s a very integral part of end game gear.