https://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/1-11-2-improved-vanilla.242728/
I have look for a vanilla plus modpack for a while. I could not find one I liked. I would find myself changing the mod list to fit my idea of vanilla plus. The end result was usually world corruption and a messy config file folder. So I simply created my own vanilla plus. I tested out 1.12, but it did not have the same amount of content as 1.11.2, so I went with 1.11.2. This is the end result.
I made this pack thinking of how I could improve vanilla, so there are no tech or magic mods. I added quality of life mods such as: Walia, JEI, and Inventory Tweaks. I intentionally left out Tinkers constructs and JourneyMap because they steered too far from vanilla. JourneyMap can be replaced by Bibliocraft atlases. Tinker removes the need for vanilla tools.