Well, since I'm here - some must-have QoL mods? Since it's EA, I know some things will be retarded in design. Some content mods for later would also be nice, once I play enough of vanilla.
Depends on what you think is retarded by design. If you found moving items from container to container tedious you can use
Carry On to pick up the container full of items and move it somewhere else for convenience. If you wished you feel like some parts of the game are missing or could be fleshed out but don't want to go into super big content mods yet you can give
Wild Farming a shot, adds a lot more to farming such as seed extraction, mushroom farming, and other things you can read for yourself. And I personally really like
Primitive Survival since I'm a fan of TerraFirmaCraft but this can be seen a big vanilla+ mod that adds some things that could definitely be in the game like fishing (and multiple ways to fish as well), traps, rafts, new food types, and other shit you can read on the mod page.
Kanahaku`s (Not Only) Spear Expansion for more spears and even other weapons (that you can just forgo if you don't care about them),
Bullseye if you want an overhaul to archery too, I could go on. For big content mods after you're done with vanlla you can check out mods like
Vs Village for...obviously villages with villagers.
Feverstone Wilds if you want some fantasy with your eldritch horror and lots of it,
Better ruins if you found vanilla's ruins boring,
alchemy,
medieval building, I could go on but only you can really decide what
you want so give the mod page a go.