Firstly, enchant books. Sure you can get more specific if you enchant items, but books get you a stockpile of things that can all be useful.
Second, village farming works great, I build whole trade halls specifically so servers don’t have to dance around getting enhancements.
This is pretty accurate and exactly why Minecraft is the prefect sandbox. There’s only two things you have to do. I’ve met people who’s most valuable item is their hoe, I’ve met people who subsist on rotten flesh and uncooked meat so they never have to stop killing. I myself make a writable journal as fast as I can to record the ever continuing travels of a multiverse hopping lich, settling on new planes and waiting for the inevitable cosmic end to catch up to him.