"Newcomer-2013. Winter"

if it's a lumber mill further into the starting area, then naturally, there's no need to fight anyone. But if it's a mine in another area, and you simply haven't found your own lumber mill, or it hasn't generated due to a generation bug – which has never happened to me – then, of course, you first need to defeat the guards at the entrance to that area, or it might be a technical restart due to the missing lumber mill.