Try Conan Exiles, set up your own server.
Building, exploring, murder and mayhem.
Hilarious with good friends.
I did, and a week spent scrapping around just to build stone aged shit ain't my thing.
The issue is, you can't enjoy running around exploring a bold new world when you are anchored to a mud hut by the river scrabbling for scraps of shit to craft shit made from scraps. What's worse, the stuff you do make falls apart with use.
If I'm going to go that route I'd rather play SCUM, at least there are zombies to kill for clothing and crap and houses with nice backpacks and guns.
But to each his own.
I played like a couple man-years of Diablo2 just farming uniques and leveling toons. I would still be playing it if I could, with other players because 8 player games are the only real way to play a level 99 Bowzon, just sayin.