Mod's I've found to make life a bit easier and don't seem to be invasive or over powering
Bedspawn (A simple mod that sets your spawn point when you use a bed. The spawn point is reset when the bed is destroyed)
Carry on (Allows picking up and carrying blocks, especially containers along with their contents, in your hands and on your back)
Clay Mold for Nails and Strips (Tired of getting carpel tunnel syndrome trying to make trunks for your warehouse? This mod could be for you!)
just an arrowhead mold (Adds an arrowhead mold to the game, with an output of 8 arrowheads)
Temporal gears stack (lets temporal gears stack to 16)
Simple HUD Clock Patch (Shows a simple configurable HUD Clock in the left upper corner with the current in game time, season, weather, temperature, room type, online players, current claim, rift activity and temporal storm status)
Extra Overlays (Simple client mod, currently only adds a health bar above the mob you are looking at)
Autowalker (Adds a simple autowalk hotkey (Default V) that is customizable in control settings. Walking forward or backwards will also turn off the autowalking)
An AFK Story (Players who stand still for 30 seconds automatically go AFK. While AFK, they receive: Full saturation, Invulnerability ) I play on a server with friends though the mod Doesn't fully work as intended. i don't believe invulnerability actually works, but the saturation thing comes in handy for those oh crap a temporal storm and I'm stuck in a hole without any food.