1.focus on crafting
yes focus on crafting is good starigies but remember to focus on weapon that your characther mastery for best effect it's also give you exp and btw don't forget to bring back up weapon because you don't know waht will happen when you search for meterial
2.Resitrict area
so every game when you start you will have time limit (which if time ran out and you in resitrict area it will cause you to instant dead) this is also affect crafting because sometime you will found that some of meterial have all search area restricted so if you focus on crafting you should focus on meterial that have all area in restricted zone first
3.wild animal
this will be big problem if you are on early game and don't have good weapon to fight yet so best ways to do if you encounter doctor (i can't remember her name sorry) or other wild animal that hard to kill so their will do alot of dmg to you if you not have great armor so if you encounter her press S or run button then change area and wait a while before you go back in
4.Player
Another big problem for crafter in early game if you luck is bad enough you may be run to other are and found another player and their cause you to dead so what ever you do in early game and found them press run button till you are in area with no player

hope this will helpful and describe clear to y'all and also sorry for broken grammar because english isn't my main lagune hope you guys ok with that