I just started a modded playthrough of VS, I mainly have combat overhaul, and a mod that adds more classes, I would have done a culinary artillery, and expanded foods, but they haven't been updated for 1.21.1 yet, sooo, I'll add 'em eventually.
I started out in a really good spot, other than the lack of trees, I had two merchants nearby, a furniture trader, and a treasure hunter, I started building a house when I realized that this area had really low temporal stability, so I ran around for a while, until I found a cutout in the mountain, I built a log cabin that I will show a screenshot of, and the beginings of a smithy. At this point I have no copper tools other than a falx that meraculasly dropped from a tools vessle, and two copper spears from panning. I have animals in fences, but I can'f feed them cause no trough, and I got serious unluck on seeds, I have the tiniest farm going right now, hopefully I'll be able to find a lot more. I do warn you, I'm playing on a relitivly low powered computer, so I play on really low render distance.