These are the mods I have installed and will be using when playing. I recommend getting these mods since they help enhance the existing game by making it easier to understand and simplifies it.

Mod 1: Combined Status
This mod adds more information to your GUI like the weather and your exact temperature. This is useful especially in Winter and Summer when that information can mean life or death.
https://five.seafn.eu.org/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=376333686

Mod 2: Simple Health Bar DST
This mod adds a health bar that appears when your character or surrounding characters engage in combat. This will be useful since this way, you won't have to guess how much health an enemy has, and can help injured teammates.
https://five.seafn.eu.org/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1207269058

Mod 3: Geometric Placement
This mad will make it so that when building/planting, objects will snap to a created grid, allowing you to efficiently place objects without things looking ugly. Great for when we build farms. I also recommend editing the mod so that the grid updates 30% of the time, make the colors green and red, and decrease the size enough so that it's not overwhelming. You can do this by pressing B to open mod settings
https://five.seafn.eu.org/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=351325790

Mod 4: Show Me (Origin)
This mad makes it so that when hovering over items, it shows more information then just the name of the object. In addition to the object name, it will show food spoil timers, health, loyalty of pigmen and merms, timers for when objects are working, how many uses an object has left, possible food outcomes in a crock pot, etc. This will be most likely the most important/valuable mod to have.
https://five.seafn.eu.org/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=666155465