These are QOL mods that I think fit in any playthrough. It focuses on several areas I find a bit lacking:

- HugsLib and Harmony are prerequisites to many other mods.
- Trading Spot brings traders to a specific place rather than a random spot somewhere on the map. Technically you can set traders to arrive in the middle of a mechhive. Practically I trust you to not cheat and use it for its intended purpose.
- Self Dyeing takes the hassle out of dyeing clothes and hair of colonists by making them do it themselves once in a while
- Pick Up and Haul, and PUAH+ improve how pawns haul stuff when working somewhere. It makes sure that stuff trickles towards stockpiles more reliably when you don't have a hauling animal doing that for you 24/7
- Animal Tab, and in particular the option to auto-slaughter animals, takes the hassle out of culling your herd all the time. Now the pawns automatically keep a certain number of animals while slaughtering the rest.
- Filth Vanishes with Rain takes care of an annoyance of mine where you need several pawns cleaning outside areas if you don't build a large block in the center of the map. Rain cleans the outside, cutting down massively on what needs to be cleaned in a segregated base compared to a monolith base.
- Better Workbench helps with setting up orders to have enough non-tattered apparel on hand. I have combined it here with MendAndRecycle, which lets you get rid of tattered apparel without just burning it.
- Wall Light and In-wall coolers and vents help with an annoyance of mine where lamps clutter the room space, and where adding vents and coolers requires a higher degree in engineering to avoid venting your fridge and having all your food go bad.
- Fluffy Breakdowns make breakdowns gradual and less annoying in larger colonies by allowing you to repair stuff rather than using it until it breaks.
- Smart Medicine allows usage of medicine even when it isn't on the ground, avoiding having to find That Specific Animal With My Meds to drop it on the ground.
- Snap Out! has been added, because waiting for a mental break to be over is one of the most annoying things in the game for me. It pauses aspects of the game while you stare at the screen. Being able to end them early is a win for me.
- Better Surgery turns "only necessary surgeries" into "hey, I can try for a heavy cyborg colony this run". Reducing the risk of stabbing your pawn to death when trying to do a simple surgery makes doing surgeries less of a pain.
- MinifyEverything is a bit overkill. It allows you to flatpack anything. I dislike that a lot of things cannot be moved once placed when designing and modifying my base. This mod gets around it. Unfortunately it also means that you can technically pack up things like walls and solar panels from random bases in the neighbourhood and place them long before you have researched them. Some user discretion is advised when and where to use the features of this mod.