An update on this:
Essence Cave: Well doable now, never experienced the high numbers again from the incident in original post.
Fishing (Rainforest): Iron-Man-tipp was helpful, throwing from the chest is muuuch easier than throwing the fish in an arc over the head, also figured you don’t have to go all the way to the shore, no more issues with that one as well.
Knights Fort still broken as noted many times, but it’s on dev list to fix, current thread is here: