Bread + meat in the crafting grid = happy camper, there’s other foods that
can be combined also, experiment.

A soulsand pile (soulsand in crafting grid) can be used to find the
direction a recently respawn player spawned in, Giz might enjoy that info.

Also, did vMC make you soft? If you’re not gonna shoot those ghasts with a
bow than dig/build tunnels :P

And wolves don’t need darkness to poo, just makes it faster.

Hope that helps! Enjoying the let’s-play, just remember when you get
frustrated that the mod is very fair, you just either A) are missing an
important piece of information; or B) need to progress farther in the
tech-tree to get around the problem. BTW changes a LOT of MC, and sadly
it’s hard to convey all that knowledge to newer players without spoiling
the surprises.