So. I edited a mod that changes the amount of Hearthlings to only give me three. I edited the actual settings file to top my hearthling number to 3 instead of 10.
I have Armis Maximus and Signery that add a lot of cute items. I personally love it because I can set up my guard in ‘town colors’ and fly different colored banners instead of just blue. Signery also adds a lot of awesome crafter signs and more. Armis Maximus adds a lot of weapon variety while keeping it rather balanced and even adding a fourth warrior class that you need clay for. This way you can actually have decent warriors as Rayaa’s Children.
There’s also Finery, created by the same person, which as a ton of decoration items and wood-specific items like different beds, cabinets, counters, shelves, and much much more. It also adds decorational suits of armor and trophies and all-around nice items.
These three mods are created by @stonemonkey can be found here:
Armis Maximus
Signery
Finery
They can also be found on steam
I use Kaimonkey traits, which adds a lot of amazing traits. Two of them can be viewed on these characters which is: “Martially Trained”, it allows these characters to pick up and use a weapon regardless of what job they have. Allows your character to defend themselves if needed. “Pacifist”, increases the user’s spirit by 2 points, however, they do not fight things often and cannot be any of the fighting classes. There are a lot of traits that you can find on his threads along with their descriptions.
It is made by @kaimonkey and can be found here:
Kaimonkey’s Traits
Can also be found on steam.
Home Sweet Home is another decoration mod adding a bunch of workshop specific items such as herb racks for the herbalist, piles of books, and more. Just small household decor.
Was made by @pingu and can be found here:
Home Sweet Home
Can also be found on steam.
I use World Map Size 160, which makes your world smaller so it is easier on the computer. Still has plenty of space for your village and other camps to spawn… From what I can tell, the creator is not on discourse, only steam, but I could be wrong. You can look it up on the workshop and find it, however. They’ve made a bunch of different world sizes. Down to 32, which is tiny
I’m using the Green Mesa Biome. It is pretty and simple. It involves Small green tables and small lakes surrounded by oak trees, similar to the desert. I looked around the Discourse to try to find the author and link, but… I don’t think they are on here either… Just the workshop. You can find it there.
(These can all be found on the workshop.) Other small, slice of life mods are:
Follow Cam Remembers by @Wharp makes it so that the last hearthling you followed with ‘J’ will be followed whenever you press it. Its pretty useful for checking up on guards, specifically. Find it here:
Follow Cam Remembers
Better Storage allows you to be more precise with what you want to be stored in stockpiles and shelves. It’s by @Shinsaka and can be found here:
Better Storage
AutoHarvest is by @Pawel_Malecki and allows you to basically click a button so that certain bushes or plants will be automatically queued for harvest when they are ready. He also has a few other cool mods that I don’t use since they don’t directly appeal to me, but you guys might like them 
Autoharvest and More
For a bit of map variety, I also use the rivers mod by @BrunoSupremo. It’s a nice little mod and is relatively dynamic to go into most biomes and can be varied in size depending on your settings and configuration.
Rivers Mod
Smart Crafter is an awesome mod. It does a simple thigns that will knock you off your feet. It basically makes it so that, if you qeues something for a crafter to make, it will have other crafters make the prerequiset items if you do not have them on hand. For example. If you are making Silver Armor of a Green variety from Armis Maximus and you have none of the items neccessary. It will tell the blacksmit to make the ingots you need. Tell the weaver to make the bolts of leather and cloth your require. If you lack both of those, the weaver will also make the string they need to make such items. I highly suggest this mod. 
Its by @Drotten and can b found here:
Smart Crafter