Structures
+ progression path

These aren't sorted by difficulty. ONLY listing the custom structures important for advancements, gear, enchants, quests...
Please try to explore most of them before not doing so because of the loot. The term "Useful junk" means many things. It can mean both wind charges, golden carrots... so on, but also common armor trims, building blocks, vines.... There's no "one-word" term to use for it.


Progression path

You start by getting full protection IV netherite armor. Then you can move on to getting the Asflors sword, by finding and exploring the Asflors village and finding the necessary books to guide you on the way to the main loot.

After getting the sword, you can test your strength in the Alfheim tree. If you trust yourself that you can loot it with ease, go to the runic labyrinth, featuring many more mobs and two more items to get: The Twilight of Yggdrasil bow and the Elven Bow.

When you get those, you move on to the overworld, now you need to get spiteful 3 on your sword and probably traveler 3 on your boots, along with Poison aspect for your spear and/or sword. You need to explore to find those, they're not 100% guaranteed anywhere.
Then you explore and find the Echoing forge, where you get the Gea's gift II enchantment. Get a full set with it.

While within the Echoing forge, you might get protection V pants from the forge's pale part chests. You can skip this step, but it's safer to have a larger protection than not.

Additionally, you can get Life steal books from the Cuboid vaults. If you have this, skip getting Nugrak's bite on the weapons you use Life steal on.

Then you move to Vanaheim, where when you loot the structure completely, you should get a book of Weakening sting from the ominous vaults there, enchant your ranged weapons with it. Speaking of ominous vaults in Vanaheim, there is a special type of enchant group called "blessings", choose whichever one you like and put it on your sword or/and axe. After that comes the time to get Bright vision from Helheim, along with Nugrak's bite on your sword and axe.

Now it's time for the hard part, the part where you're going to loot Asgard, where you can get Gungnir, but you can also get your gear lost very easily, proceed with caution. You can also get Zyask's strike and Frost within the structure.
After that, enchant your Gungnir with Weakening sting.