Cinders

Look, I held on to Realistic torches as long as possible, but in the end they upped the difficulty by mostly being tedious and annoying. Looking back I've always found a way to get around them, usually pretty quickly, be it Cave Crystal from Quark or Light Spells from Psi, in the end, all they did was delay my infinite light sources by maybe a day or two, and ensure that I didn't use torches for anything.

Removed:

Realistic Torches - I'll be honest, all this did was encourage me to never place torches, and this pack is hard enough without your tunnels constantly going dark because you only visit them once every three days.

Changed:

Lowered the biome temperature so that you wouldn't end up with seasons in which you would die from overheating while at y 120+ and standing in a pool of water.
Lowered the spawn rate of Ancient Golems (those things were everywhere)3
Added a water bucket to the starting gear