A modpack centered around balanced progression while still including many great mods, especially great quality of life mods that upgrade the simple minecraft experience.

A big staple of this modpack is the removal of automation, not the removal of RF entirely, just the things that can cause the game to feel more like creative mod rather than exploring and working for resources.

Another big staple is that the balance and progression is capped behind the endgame content of other mods, so The End and the Wither isn't the final facet of the game. The Twilight Forest and Betweenlands all play a part into game progression.

Ultimately, this modpack is just a tiny little pet project of mine designed for me and my friends. If others find it enjoyable, all the better :)

Quality of Life Mods

Journey Map

The map one

JEI / JEI Integration

It adds the item UI
Also throw in the No Recipe Book mod because that tool in vanilla is no longer needed

Pam’s Harvestcraft

Adds many food items and allows for simpler farm harvesting

Fence Jumper

Jump over fences with ease, but mobs and pets can't

Inventory Tweaks

Auto grabs a new tool when old expires, if one exists in inventory; does the some for stacks that run out

Weather, Storms & Tornadoes

Realistic clouds and visible storms in the distance

Tomb Many Graves 2 (API)

The death recovery one
Requires compatibility mod

Cosmetic Armor Reworked

The cosmetic gear one
Requires compatibility mod

FTB Utilities

The claiming area one

BiblioCraft

Adds tons of new decorative stuff

Quick Leaf Decay

Self explanatory

Waystones

Waystones are a craftable object to allow fast travel between them at the cost of levels; automatically spawns in villages (xp cost can be and will likely be turned off)
Telepad is a more difficult to craft item, but works more efficiently and intuitively than a waystone

Nether Portal Fix

The nether portal you use in overworld will always be the one you return to regardless of conflicting portal locations

Small Helpful Additives

Baubles

Adds a bauble inventory

Extra Utilities 2

Adds some useful baubles

Dark Utilities

Some more useful things

Biomes O’ Plenty / Quark

Self explanatory

Storage Drawers

Bigger storage containers

Improved Backpack

…. backpacks, man.

EnderStorage 1.8.+

The color coordinated ender chests that connect to chests of the same color

Cyclic / Reliquary

Adds many fun and helpful items to the game

Chisel

Adds many extra choices in textures to many vanilla blocks

Little Tiles

A mod that can split blocks into much smaller versions for detailing architecture
Requires Creative Core mod

Cooking for Blockheads

Goes hand in hand with the Pam's Harvestcraft by adding kitchen type blocks so cooking the recipes isn't too difficult

Long Fall Boots

Boots that negate fall damage

Large Extra Content Mods

Embers

The one and only tech mod that isn't unbalanced, doesn't use RF (pfft… stupid RF), and it is more interactive and doesn't rely on automation
Soot mod is an addon to Embers to make it a little better

Botania

An interactive magic mod that provides many useful things, but no unbalancing tools and weapons; it also has a high end boss

Roots 2

A fun, difficult mod that adds many cool tools

The Twilight Forest

I don't know much about this mod apart from it being a new world and there being a Hydra boss, but I'm excited to try it out

The Betweenlands

A really cool new world, a lot of fun to go into for a more difficult minecraft experience

Abyssalcraft

Don't know much about it, but I know it doesn't need RF is it's good in my book

Thaumcraft

A super lore immersive mod that delves deep into its own history; not sure the kind of gear it provides, but the process of discovery looks fun

There's few more, but the above is the heart of the pack. Not terribly small or large, meant for weaker computers while still maintaining a great deal of new and exciting content.

Aequitas Personal Project

[ANGRY PIXEL] The Betweenlands

AbyssalCraft

AppleSkin

AutoRegLib

Baubles

Better Builder's Wands

BiblioCraft

Biomes O' Plenty

Bookshelf

Botania

Chameleon

Chisel

CodeChicken Lib 1.8.+

ConnectedTexturesMod

Cooking for Blockheads

Corail Pillar

Corail Pillar - Extension Biomes O' Plenty

CoroUtil

Cosmetic Armor Reworked

Crafting Tweaks