Well! After about 40 hours on my first world, I've survived winter, made leather, have iron tools and am currently planting a long overdue crop of flax so I can finally make a lot of the related stuff. The hunt for borax was honestly awesome, the joy of falling into a cave and seeing some after a multi day trek was very powerful.
Somewhat running out of goals. Things are slowing down and are very stable. Need this flax crop to grow in before I can really do any kind of automation, which will just take a while.
Want to try add some mods and chuck myself into wilderness survival. Might try to figure out steel / bees first on my stable save.