Minecraft wiki entry for Best_biomes_for_homes, associated text: Make sure to collect the saplings from the trees in the Wooded Badlands Plateau biome! You want to make sure you will never run out of trees or their saplings.
Use a mineshaft to get down somewhere you can get stone, ores, and even chest loot from minecarts there.
Make sure to have another biome close by to get as much food as you can.
Set up a resource base here for the massive amounts of gold. This biome will provide you enough gold for a lifetime.
Terracotta is also abundant. Use your resource base for collecting them. Terracotta are awesome for building, and glazed variants are brilliant for decoration.