Have you messed around with mods yet? I don't know how many of the quality-of-life ones have been integrated since last I played (I played around 1.0 coming out), but there's some really good stuff there. There's also all sorts of crazy stuff you can add, including but not limited to literal magic.
I have not tried out any of the mods for this. I mostly prefer vanilla experiences unless I have overplayed a game to the point of wanting to extend its life to keep enjoying it. With over 3.5k mods for 1.0 I’m sure there are some really amazing once.
There only a couple of games I've ever really modded before Ark, Minecraft and Skyrim. All of those I've played the daylights out of.