I'll beg to differ on that one. While Architecturecraft can work for certain things, I found it to rigid. Also, can't shift in glowstone for lighting or wheat to get a thatched roof. So most of my work now is with C&B. But I would love to combine C&B and Carpenters on some builds.
From what I've seen of MineColonies in DW20's "Invasion" playthrough, it has some features like AW, but I don't know if you can get them to do your tedious chores like you could in AW. I'd like to see more tooautomatic maiden Statues Mod - my personal favorite. would make statues of everyone on the server around a Marble temple like house and flowing liquid. people would think i'm medusa or something and leave me alone.Wish i could code just to bring this back.
Ancient warefare- our groups favorite- was always in a private mod pack. would try to make entire villages and have NPC workers zip around and do all the work for us. it was fun to watch.
This one is fairly complicated mod with AI and stuff so not expecting it to come back. MineColonies seems to be interesting... got to explore it more
Addition:
What ever mod gave us the Peaceful Table. My GF plays exclusively on peaceful mode (poor eyesight, fighting mobs = frustration) so she's not moved on from 1.7.4 yet.
Open Blocks I believe.
Morph, which was hilariously fun.
There's a mod called MobRecipes for 1.10 and 1.11. Might be worth checking out. Found here
Umm.. So that link leads to the Mod's page, and all the recipes require mob drops to make mob drops.. The description isn't very clear if the recipes shown are what you use..
4 bones for a skeleton head... need the bones... listed below is 2/mob drop 25% chance... still requires killing skeletons...