I've been a total Morgan surrounded by Angies on a Minecraft modpack, my biggest technologic achievement was a windmill when others had mastered space travel and teleportation. But I built nice houses for people, so everyone was happy.
Jo, if you are getting into potion crafting (dunno what aspects you like most), I could recommend Quacks of Quedlinburg. It is a board game, BUT you can play a great scripted version of it on Tabletop Simulator. Just get a few friends and play it together!
@Hfar
No that is called Artisan. Hand crafting every thing, one at a time. Taking pride in ones work is nothing to be ashamed of but it does mean that it will take longer to produce everything you order from them.
Shame her quest is doomed for failure, anything involving liquids requires an assembler or a chemical factory, and refineries are one of the biggest pollutants in the game.
This is why I use mods. I can run a(mostly) ecofriendly factory.
I just need to make a ton of greenhouses to produce trees, some will be used for lumber to fuel furnaces, others will be used to fertilize the land around my factory to eat up the pollution.