Let’s discuss fuel, because this may be more relevant with the auto-crafter coming.
I’m team charcoal, specifically giant jungle trees. Does everything regular coal does except coal blocks, need a lot of charcoal and sticks anyway for torches and tools, giant trees consistently produce over a stack, and lumberjacking is just a relaxing way to pass the time.
Lava fuel is awesome. You can make a lava farm with dripstone now. And you can get iron buckets for free with the iron farms. You have to craft buckets but with the crafter coming out soon I bet we can craft iron buckets. So we can have a fully automatic lava fuel farm.