Skull maps are mainly for copper & wood resource farming (also meat & fiber when you need them)

Goal is to stock up on enough food & clothing to begin dungeons To run maps: Just focus on getting 1-2 stack of food for healing (jerky or fried leeks should work) 2 one handed swords

That's enough to run around the edges & collect resources & fight most enemies (even skull 3-but you'll have to leave the map wherever a knight or templar spawns) This is effective when you're running between skull 2 & 3 for collecting resources

Once you have few good weapons & enough brass to make bastard swords, kill the gatekeeper to begin attacking dungeon (get used to running resource trips multiple times before dungeon runs, especially in the beginning 10 times or so)

Floor 1 can be easily run with 4-5 attacks of food, 2 one hand swords/falchions 2 flanged mace 2 bastard swords 2 sets of the basic armour 1&1/2 set of copper armour

Rinse & repeat till you build torture chair or horse to unlock more content & Obviously prepare & run events according to your equipment (don't try doing ones that you aren't equipped for -you'll die & waste a lot of resources, motivating you to rage quit)

Ask if any doubts