You can use the create mod in order to automate a lot of things, rats can be also used for transporting items from a chest to another chest. There are loads of different furniture and decoration mods so you can build a really good house. There are skills which you can improve from killing mobs and mining. Bees are also helpful you can breed bees in order to farm resources.
mods for example:
tech mods: create + addons thermal series
magic mods: iron spells and spellbooks ,apotheosis
allthemodium
regions unexplored
essential
skills
Combine a load of building mods with create and the thermal series
Combine a load of building mods with create and the thermal series
