An explorers world is my take on improving minecraft whilst not straying way too far from vanilla.
An explorers world includes many QOL mods like faster leaf decay, JEI, LootR, Xaero's minimap and Lazydfu, minor world gen mods like Yung's extras, amplified nether and towns and towers.
The major mods in the pack are create, aquamirae, L_ender's Cataclysm and waystones.

