Are you sick and tired of seeing nothing but modpacks full of complicated tech mods and hundreds of different ways to make a pickaxe? Do you just want something rather basic where you can explore the world around you for days on end and conquer it without having to get a degree in rocket science? well this is the modpack for you! this is a kitchensink pack with around 200 mods, focusing mostly on exploration and ease of use. there are hundreds of structures to discover and loot, many classic rpg style dungeons to fight through, dozens of biomes to wander, multiple dimensions to discover such as the aether and atum, and even space with multiple planets to claim for your own! don't think it will be a breeze however! when you start, you cant just punch trees and have wood just like that, you can find rocks and twigs to make a primitive axe and get wood that way. Then you have to deal with the temperature and thirst. there are new armors and items to counteract the weather, and youll have to carry around water bottles if water isn't nearby. skillable is one of the many mods in the pack that will give the world of Minecraft a driving force behind it in the way of a skill tree, forcing you gain proficiency in the use of items before you can use their higher tier versions. Not only that, but a flurry of dragons will always be present in your journies, wether you tame one and conquer them or not is up to you. Now, to the lore part of the modpack's name. I have taken a lot of inspiration from matpat's take on the lore of Minecraft, with a bit of my own stuff. Many years before our own lived a great race of builders that conquered the land and largely eliminated the hostile populace, leaving many structures behind in the process, including great now lost cities. unfortunately, with power came arrogance. Many thought that they could use the soul sand of the nether to bring back their fallen. They proceeded to use the skulls of their fallen in conjuction with soul sand to create the wither. What it brought was the complete opposite of what it was intended to do. It destroyed most of human society, chasing the survivors to the end, the only place where the wither couldn't follow. There, they survived on a diet of exclusively choras fruit, the only food they could find. They built vast cities and flying airships, but as the years went on, the fruit transformed them. There was little left of their past selves, leaving nothing left other then what we know as the endermen. With the humans gone, the nasties of the world began to come out of hiding and reclaim the world, along with mother nature taking over most of the human structures. Among them, was the dragons, apex predetors and the deadliest of the bunch. the only intelligent race left was the villagers, a distant relative of the humans that escaped destruction because they weren't the ones who built the wither. That is, until a single non enderman human inexplicably arrived in the overworld, you.

mod list:

Just Enough Items (JEI) (by mezz)
The Official Connected Textures Pack (by Drullkus)
Enchantment Descriptions (by DarkhaxDev)
Minecraft Boom (by phrille)
Salradahn's collectibles (by Salradahn)
ConnectedTexturesMod (by tterrag1098)
Snow Variants (by Trikzon)
Bad Mobs (by DarkhaxDev)
Project: Vibrant Journeys (by solis_nova123)
MovingWorld (by darkevilmac)
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (by ohaiiChun)
MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod (by MrCrayfish)
AppleSkin (by squeek502)
Skyblock 3 (by Astavie)
Sit (by bl4ckscor3)
The Lost Cities (by McJty)
Davincis Vessels (by darkevilmac)
OreLib (by OreCruncher)
MysticalLib (by EpicSquid319)
SFH Core (by Angayoco)
Atum 2: Return to the Sands (by Shadowclaimer)
The Disenchanter Mod (by impelon)
AlcatrazCore (by AlcatrazEscapee)
KleeSlabs (by BlayTheNinth)
Cosmetic Beds (by TheIllusiveC4)
TekTopia (by TangoTek)
MalisisDoors (by Ordinastie)
Explorercraft - THE INFECTION EXPANSION - 3.2.4 (by Zathrox999)
MalisisCore (by Ordinastie)
LibraryEx (by LogicTechCorp)
CoroUtil (by Corosus)
Leo's Craftable Chainmail (by Leo40Twitch)
Just a Few Fish (by Tmtravlr)
Fence Jumper (by TheRealp455w0rd)
LLibrary (by _ForgeUser11902522)
Skillable (by Vazkii)
AstikorCarts [Horse Carts] (by MennoMax)
Wings (by pau101)
Defiled Lands (by Lykrast)
Controllable (by MrCrayfish)
SimpleCore API (by skrallexy)
Netherrocks (by skrallexy)
FoamFix for Minecraft (by asiekierka)
Inventory Tweaks (by Kobata)
Beta+ (by therealMRBURGERUS)
Tree Chopper (by MrDuchy)
A Crude Start (by Tacusin)
Dynamic Surroundings (by OreCruncher)
Just A Raft Mod (by Mrbysco)
NetherEx (by LogicTechCorp)
Patchouli (by Vazkii)
No Tree Punching (by AlcatrazEscapee)
Indicatia (by SteveKunG)
Realistic Horse Genetics (by sekelsta)
Grappling Hook Mod (by yyonne)
Tough As Nails (by TheAdubbz)
JourneyMap (by techbrew)
Land Manager (by bright_spark)
Doggy Talents (by percivalalb)
Nether Tweaks (by Angayoco)
Stronghold Compass (by tfarecnim)
Dirt2Path [FORGE] (by mallrat208)
YUNG's Better Caves (by YUNGNICKYOUNG)
Neat (by Vazkii)
The Farlanders (by ModdingLegacy)
Fancy Block Particles (by TominoCZ)
Familiar Fauna (by Forstride)
Tumbleweed (by konwboj)
Realm of Midgard (by DrussRua)
OuesternCraft [Western map] (by SC0RV0)
IvToolkit (by Ivorforce)
Recurrent Complex (by Ivorforce)
NetherPortalFix (by BlayTheNinth)
Classic Combat

and a few more that I cant fit on here

Thanks for taking time out of your day to check out my modpack, I hope you enjoy it!

edit: thanks for sorting by new gamers

LorePack

A Crude Start

A Little Taste of Jerm | 1.12 - 1.21.10

Adventure Tools

AgriCraft

AlcatrazCore

Amulet Stone

Antique Atlas

Apotheosis

AppleCore

AppleSkin

Aquaculture 2

Aquatic

AstikorCarts [Horse Carts]

Astral Sorcery

Atum 2: Return to the Sands

AutoRegLib

Back Tools

Bad Mobs

Baubles

Bear With Me