Ok.
I really like the idea of cramped space mods and have tried several of them. But I never get very far because I can't think if I don't have vast open space, undisturbed time and limitless resources. I just lose focus and energy :/
I'm too used to building in my megabase or in creative mod. But I'm making some blueprints there now for early to late game. I might make some smaller ones that I can use for mods like yours to allow me to get past green science.
I've tried NESTT (way more cramped than any ribbon world), Factorissimo (before the release of bigger buildings and entire base (except power and smelting and mining, but all was the goal) inside a single building on nauvis!), some underground digging mod and deathworlds where the space is really limited by the natives.
Are you playing The Floor Is Lava with "Alien Biomes" lava biomes?