Vein Miner:
This mod allows you to chop entire trees at once, or mine entire ore veins from one block by holding the key set in the Keybinding menu. There is also a few other features, such as mass shearing and harvesting, just use the correct tools.

Ropes+:
This will make it much easier to travel until you get deep enough into other mods to acquire a form of flight. You start with a grappling hook and some rope. This is so that new players can set out ASAP.

Buildcraft Additions:
This mod provides the means to ore processing until the late game, you can also use it to store power among other things.

Cooking for Blockheads:
A mod to help you feed yourself as you progress through Pam's, making it easier cook better and better meals, with far less effort.

Steve's Workshop:
This mod will make it much easier on you to do your general crafting, allowing you to have multiple crafting tables and furnaces in one block, as well as upgrade them to assist with your crafting.

Iron Chests and Storage Drawers:
These two mods have been included to help manage resources.

Iron Tanks:
A simple functions like Iron Chests except for Tanks, this may help those who need to store lot's of fluids in very little space.

GraveStone:
This simple mod is included to collect your items upon death. It will make death a bit less painful, it will also add in some dungeons to explore.