Originally posted by Veseljko:

Instead of reducing requirements for crafting, you could use mods to increase yields from mining, woodcutting, farming, cooking etc. Search for mods made by smoothbrain, they are amazing. They add additional skills and increase in those skills will help a lot.
For example:

Lumberjacking

Replaces the wood cutting skill with a Lumberjacking skill. Increases damage dealt to trees and item yield from trees, reduces damage taken from falling trees. Also increases movement speed in forests.

Farming

Adds a skill that makes crops grow faster and increases item yield for harvesting crops.
Starting at skill level 20, you can plant and harvest multiple crops at the same time. You can toggle this with a hotkey (default: Left Shift).
Starting at skill level 30, you can see the progress of planted crops.
Starting at skill level 50, it removes the biome requirement for crops you plant.
Also adds a hotkey you can press, to toggle snapping of crops (default: Left CTRL).
Also reduces stamina usage while planting crops by 1% per skill level.

Mining

Adds a mining skill that increases damage dealt while mining and item yield from ore deposits.
Starting at skill level 50, there is a tiny chance that hitting an ore deposit will make it explode. There is a shortcut (default: CTRL + T) to toggle this on and off.