I've been playing alone on and off since the world started and now with summer break coming soon, I'm trying to optimize how I play. Currently I have a main character that I use for exploration, fighting, foraging, and mining, and I have a second character for farming. The intention was for the farming character to handle most of the crafting, but I've been lazy about developing him so I've been doing it on my main too. I haven't made it too far in this game so all my stuff is pretty low q so it doesn't matter too much.
My question is, how many characters do you guys think is ideal for a one-man village/settlement? Should I have a separate mining/energy slut character? What skills and attributes should each character focus?