Kaban Central

Sometimes Vanilla Minecraft isn't enough: progression is really fast, building isn't fun and world is big and boring.
This mod tries to fix these problems and adding some fun! It also provides some interesting social and roleplay things to make your game more comfortable.
This mod was originally intended for eponymous server. But its changes are still helpful in singleplayer.

Features

Steel tool&armor material
It's better than iron, but worse than diamond. And yes, to make game more paced diamond recipes (not including chisel and trowel) were removed.
Steel hammer
Overpriced 3x3 pickaxe. It also converts some blocks into their counterparts and crushes ores.
Chisel
It can replace the block that the player is looking at with the one that is to the right of the chisel in hotbar.
Trowel
It places random blocks from player's hotbar.
Contorollable lanterns
Lanterns that can be disabled using redstone or your hand! Just be careful - don't spam it.
Redstone lantern
Lantern equivalent for redstone torches. It even emits redstone signal.
Very cool in-game flashlight
May impact perfomance. (This is why Veil is needed)
Sitting and crawling
Can be done using commands (/sit and /crawl) or keybinds.
Some cool hats
A bunch of them are even useful
Better World border
Tired of generic World border? Well this mod adds additional configurable border - storm. It's much more interesting, because you can leave it but you need to be prepared: it's cold out there!
World-wide event commands
Do sky flashes, star changes, shakes and even more. Really useful if you're trying to write a story.