Greater Atmosphere & Beauty

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A slew of 200+ mods focusing on deepening aspects of vanilla minecraft as a base, before adding more content.

Check out the tips further below for some ideas on what to do in this pack. But as a start, let me give you an idea on what to expect:

Experience new mob AI that requires a little more strategy to tackle,
Smoother combat with a rework of immunity frames and a sweet middle-ground of new and old attack systems
More challenging boss fights with changes to The Wither and The Ender Dragon (plus the Warden now has actual loot)
More tameable vanilla mobs together with pet respawning (Through new Pet Beds)
A cozy and immersive cooking experience with rewarding food systems and plenty of new dishes
More life in the oceans, new fishing equipment, and a drastic change to the fishing minigame
A way to pick up entities that lets you move your chests and animals around easily
Prettier weather and a livelier night sky
Light that follows you when you hold a torch or lantern (or other light-emitting items)
Improved vanilla-style player animations to make your multiplayer sessions more lively, and keybinds for sitting and crawling
Plenty of decorative blocks that don't clash with the regular Minecraft look
Many more animals, all with their own behaviour and interactions
A change to how animals spawn and respawn, so you don't accidentally make every cow or sheep in your area extinct
Slow but rewarding leveling, requiring you to perform the tasks that you want to level
Interesting structures to explore that combine multiple mods (while avoiding structure bloat)
Magic systems that require a lot of time to dig into, rewarding puzzle-solving prowess
Mythical mobs to fight and get legendary loot from, giving some incentive to gear up
A low-tech mod with a focus on physical mechanisms to make your farms and factories feel alive and fit into the world better, while opening up tons of more options in automation and building (and really cool train systems)
The ability to build contraptions that come to life with physics. Make your own truly custom cars and planes (I recommend looking up a tutorial for Clockwork to learn more)
And some more! A comprehensive mod list is below.

Performance mods

Alternate Current (Makes redstone less laggy)
AttributeFix (Needed for mods that increase stats of any kind.)
Better Chunk Loading (anticipates new chunk loading based on character movement, optimizing it.)
Radium Reforged(optimizes a lot of calculations regarding mob AI and physics, increasing tick speed by a lot)
Chunk Sending (Decreases lag spikes when loading chunks, reduces stutter when first joining a world)
Chunky (Pregenerates chunks with commands)
Client crafting (speeds up crafting on servers, massively reduced delays)
Clumps (xp drops get grouped better, slightly speeds up xp absorption)
Connectivity (Increases the “timeout” window when connecting to a server and increases packet size limit)
Dimensional threads reforked
Embeddium (Optimizes the rendering engine)
Fast Async World Save
Fast Paintings (Decreases the lag paintings can cause)
Fastload (Speeds up world loading times)
FerriteCore (Reduces memory usage)
ImmediatelyFast
Let Me Despawn (Hostile mobs sometimes never despawn, causing lag. This lets them despawn)
Load my F***ing Tags (If tags are conflicting the game will still load. Usually doesn’t cause any major issues)
Memory Leak Fix or Fix GPU Memory Leak
ModernFix (A bunch of fixes for performance)
NERB (Improves performance by disabling the recipe book, which isn’t needed with JEI)
Smooth Chunk Save (Saves chunks over time instead of all at once, reducing lag spikes.)
Starlight (Optimizes the lighting engine.)
Structure Essentials (makes structure locating much faster and also fixes a bunch of performance issues that structures impose.)

Menu stuff

Catalogue
Configured
Controlling
Experimental Settings Disabler (Disables the popup that occurs when you create a world with world gen mods installed)
Fast ip ping
Just enough resources
Loot Integrations (with Randomized Vanilla, Yungs, and IDAS addon. Makes vanilla loot tables have more randomness and a higher chance of putting modded items in)
No Chat Reports (Unsure where to put this, but this is just a simple mod to protect your privacy)
No resource pack warnings (Those warnings are just annoying)
No Telemetry (Also a privacy-protecting mod)
Paxi (For global datapack changes. Withering heights, Warden with loot, and Project MMO changes)
Polymorph (Lets you pick which item you mean to craft if there are conflicts)
Suggestion Tweaker (Makes running modded commands easier since they show up on the suggestion menu now)

Decorative

All the Trims (Lets you armor trim any armor with many more patterns available)
Amendments (Changes some vanilla blocks so you can decorate more with them, such as putting carpets on stairs)
Another Furniture (Furniture that looks in line with vanilla. Very nice small mod)
Armor Statues(poseable mannequins for some nice decorations)
Arts & Crafts (+ the Compat mod. Lets you draw with chalk and make a bunch of nice decorative pots)
Bedspreads (lets you put banners on beds)
Bushier Flowers (lets you make bunches of flowers by bonemealing them. Looks nice in a flower pot)
Chipped (Many variants of existing blocks, locked behind making specific workbenches for them but it’s a really nice system. The blocks all look amazing)
Connectible Chains (Lets you place chains around fence posts, small but neat. There’s a resource pack to make it look like rope.)
Cosmetic Armor Reworked (Lets you put armor in vanity slots, so you can customize yourself however you want without sacrificing defense.)
Easel does it (Place paintings in the Easel block to precisely pick which paintings you want)
Elytra Trims (Customizable elytra, they work a little like caps and you can put banner patterns on them.)
Etched (Lets you make music discs with custom music through URLs)
Exposure (A mod that lets you take pictures with a camera and display them with classic patina)
FramedBlocks (lets you make stairs, fences, doors, etc. of every block by placing them in “frames”)
Immersive paintings (has a graffiti function which lets you import images into the game, which works on servers too.)
Mr Crayfish Furniture: Refurbished (An updated version of the classic. Everything looks much more in line with vanilla now)
Portfolio (Adds more paintings that fit the vanilla look.)
Sawmill (Adds a block for much more effectively making things like fences and stairs)
SelfExpression (Adds a bunch of clothes that you can mix and match. Might be fun for some on-the-spot customization and rpg purposes)
Sooty Chimneys (Some nice chimney blocks)
Storage Delight (Adds cupboards and drawers to decorate a kitchen or bedroom with)
Supplementaries (Many quaint decorations, most of which have functions too

Cosmetic (Client sided)

Appleskin (shows you how much a food will fill you up and shows the saturation as well.)
Chat colors (Lets you use italics and bold font in the chat window. Also colors.)
Chat Heads (Adds an icon based on your skin next to your chat messages)
Chat impressive animation (adds an animation for bringing up the chat. Small and neat)
Constant Music (Reduces the massive delay for background music to play)
Drip Sounds (Water droplets now make a sound)
Dyed (Makes leather horse armor look nicer and work better with dyes)
Elytra Physics (Adds cape physics to the elytra)
Enchantment Descriptions (self explanatory)
Falling Leaves (Trees spawn some tiny leaves that float in the air for some forest ambience.)
Model gap fix (Fixes things like bows and fishing rods looking weird when held)
More Chat History (Increases the chat history limit)
More Mob Variants (Adds some alternate appearances to vanilla mobs)
Not Enough Animations (Eating and map animations can now be seen by other players.)
Oculus (Adds shader support so you can use downloaded shaders)
Pop! (Adds a bubble particles that exit from the surface of bubble columns)
Pretty Rain (Makes weather look nicer and acts as particles. I recommend you turn off ground fog)
Raised (raises the hotbar by a couple pixels so the selector isn’t cut off any longer)
Skin Layers 3D (makes skin layers 3D so skins now look fuller. Much nicer in my opinion)
Sorted Enchantments (Enchantments get sorted alphabetically in the tooltip)
Stellar View (REALLY cool mod that makes a much more interesting skybox, composed of a massive amount of math. NOTE: When using with a shaderpack turn ON the default skybox and turn off stars in the shader settings)
Wavey Capes (Capes are no longer stiff, and instead move much more smoothly)
What are they up to (Lets you see when players are afk, crafting, in their inventory, etc.)

Gameplay changes

CarryOn (You can pick up small mobs and other entities such as chests by holding shift and right click, then right click to place them back down. Very useful for organising things)
ChickensShed (Chickens passively shed feathers)
CleanSwingThroughGrass or Cut Through (Lets you hit mobs through blocks that break in one hit, such as grass.)
Combatify (Takes some getting used to with the extra reach on charged attacks but overall I find this mod to be a huge improvement to combat, as it makes combat just a little more varied)
Corpse (Keep items in a corpse where you died, also adds death history for if your items disappear somehow which is incredibly useful)
CrawlOnDemand (Or use Personality instead if you can. Adds a button that lets you crawl on command. Default is ‘left-alt’ but can be changed)
Diet (Promotes eating varied food, giving small buffs that you need to maintain. Not many penalties for not having a varied diet, and you can even turn them off completely)
Domestication Innovation
E4MC (A mod that lets you share an obscured public ip to open a LAN world to anyone. Safe and easy)
Easy Anvils (Some much needed balance adjustments to anvils. More reasonable XP costs for things and no limit to the xp costs for heavily modified items, among other things)
Easy Magic (Lets you reroll enchantments by spending xp, instead of the usual workarounds to rerolling. Also removes the requirement for air blocks between the enchanting table and bookshelves, opening up plenty of room for decorations. Simple and balanced)
Elytra Slot (Adds a slot to put the elytra in, letting it be used alongside a chestplate)
End Remastered (You have to explore to find various eyes of ender for use in the end portal frame. Some are craftable and some are dropped by bosses so it’s not too bad)
Forgery / Fabrication (Fixes some bugs and lets you add/remove certain minecraft features. What I like to do is disable Dinnerlava and enable the water source block filling thing)
Hourglass (Lets the night pass, albeit slowly, even without all players sleeping. Not needed in newer versions but it looks much nicer)
HT’s TreeChop (a nice-looking, more efficient way of cutting trees)
JEI (A system to look up recipes in.)
Leaves Be Gone (Leaves disappear faster once a tree is cut down)
Liberty’s Villagers (Changes villagers pathfinding so they don’t get stuck and die among other configurable changes)
Lootr (Makes loot instanced for each player, therefore everyone gets a chance to raid a structure)
Mouse Tweaks (Adds some sweet inventory management features, such as scrolling on blocks to pick up an exact amount. A must-have.)
NetherPortalFix (Nether portals now properly link to one another. Look the bug up for more info)
NoAnimalTemptDelay (Mobs will no longer have a follow delay if you stop and resume holding a tempting item)
Nyf’s Spiders (Spiders are now more of a threat and can climb everywhere)
Packing Tape (Adds an item for packing up chests and other block entities to move them around easily)
Personality (Lets you sit and crawl)
Respawning Animals (Makes it so passive mobs can respawn and despawn properly. You have to feed them or name them so they don’t despawn now. Look the mod up.)
Respawning Structures (After a certain period of time, structures will respawn if they haven’t had players that live inside of them)
Shifting Wares (Fabric, Makes it so villagers restock their wares every now and then)
Simple Backups (Regularly scheduled backups stored on the server side)
Smarter Farmers (Farmers can plant and replant in a much more logical way, and they can handle modded crops now)
Snow! Real Magic! (Snow layers now share blocks with fences and grass, amongst others.)
Snow Under Trees (Snowfall now passes through leaves, making snowy biomes look much better)
Sophisticated Backpacks (Upgradeable and customizable backpacks to spare your inventory)
Sparse Structures /Sparse Structures Reforged (So structures aren’t so clumped together and a little harder to find, encouraging exploration and doesn’t bloat the overworld when you have many structure mods)
Tax Free Levels (Adjusts enchanting and anvil costs to be more reasonable. Look the mod up)
This boat is MINE! (Shift + right-click a mob that’s in your boat to push it out. Works a little wonkily with CarryOn installed but no major issues arise)
Too Fast (Reduces rubber-banding a lot and also prevents players from getting kicked when flying. Useful for playing with mods on servers, such as ones that introduce brooms or other speed effects)
True Ending (An Ender Dragon Rework)
Universal Bonemeal (So you can bonemeal things like cactus and sugarcane)
Universal Enchants (Frees up restrictions on enchantments for tools and weapons. Look up the mod page)
Visual Workbench (crafting tables work as inventories now, they keep the items you put in them. This makes them unusable by multiple people at once but it’s nice and immersive.)
Warden with loot (Because the warden drops barely anything in vanilla)
What is this structure (adds a simple command that identifies the structure you are near and tells you which mod it is from.)
Withering Heights (A rework of the Wither making it a more challenging boss while also making it easier to fight. Check the mod page)
Wither Skeleton no drop sword (Wither skeletons no longer drop stone swords.)

Mobs

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