Get The Black Marketeer EASY No Fights, No Capture Needed! palworld guide 

That's dumb. What would be better is actually use the mineshaft one specifically and make your first base directly outside of it. Then your literally within walking distance of him, you start with 3 iron nodes which happen to be right outside, and then simply fast travel anywhere back and forth to reset it, which you'd probably be doing anyway if you're also trading with a normal merchant. Saves time to keep building the base thing over and over.

you can just log out and log in... much faster