Yeah, I guess I could. To be honest, it was such an effort to build, I might have to leave it a while before I can face even modifications.
I made lots of mistakes but I did end up with a slightly better handle on the process. Just need to experiment with some more complex structures when I feel the motivation return.
I did the same, most notably finding out how the snapping works (you need to point the cursor at the snapping point, not try to position the item correctly). Then I watched some building tutorials on Youtube and realised some more of what I'd been doing wrong. Possibly the best tip I saw was to generally build from the inside out. Make a huge floor, place your furniture, workbenches, etc, first and then build the building to fit the contents. Remove excess floor if there is any. Much easier than building the building and then trying to fit your stuff inside it, which would probably result in repeated demolition and rebuilding.
It's probably time to take on the first boss, really. I have a level three bow and level two armour, which I guess is the best I can get at this point?
Not necessarily, but getting better would involve some risk. You
could venture into the black forest biome and go along the shores looking for shipwrecks in order to salvage the wrecks to get fine wood to make a finewood bow (much better than the crude bow you have), but the mobs in there are much more dangerous than the ones in the meadows. You
could venture into the black forest biome to try to kill trolls to collect trollskin to make trollskin armour (
much better than the rag armour you have), but trolls are
far more dangerous than the first boss.
I went for the first boss with L1 trollskin armour, L1 finewood bow (with ~L30 bow skill) and a flint axe. I killed it in maybe 30 seconds with flint-headed arrows. It looks very imposing, but it's not as hard as it looks.