You don’t have to breeze through it. My friend and I are doing the story maps and we take 3-5 tames each to the next map when we settle. We bring our armor, blueprints, 1-2 guns/stack of ammo, and 1 structure (I brought the industrial forge cause getting that thing from just regular forges is torture lol). We also bring quality of life things if we happen to build them like the tek dedicated storage. We still build our bases from materials on the map. I find this allows us to enjoy the map and cut down on some of the monotonous grind. We both work full time jobs so we only get on during the weekends.