An I just bad luck?

I've been fighting this game for a week now, really reminds me of the forest. I want to like it, but the difficulty is insane. No, that's an understatement. The time goes so fast I've died on day 2 from infection, I've been killed by a Jaguar on day 1, just got killed by some guy wearing a red skeleton suit on day 1. I've figured out a steady diet of banana, fish, iguana, mystery fruit, mushrooms, and the occasional coconut, and it seems I could survive.

But I haven't figured out how to boil water, I tried making the coconut canteen thing but that just dumps water into the fire instead of boiling. So I always get parasites, and worms, and infection.

If its not infection, which I can't seem to figure out how to cure, I die a violent death from the Jaguar or the bogey men.

Maybe I need to turn down the difficulty.