World & exploration: Epic Terrain and Bigger Caves reshape the landscape. Nature's Spirit, Windswept!, Mystic's Biomes and Environmental add new biomes, villages and wildlife. Structory adds ruins, manors, chapels and camps to discover. Alex's Caves adds whole new underground biomes, such as candy caves and toxic caves.
Cozy building & decor: Cozy Home, Lucky's Cozy Home and Supplementaries add furniture, lighting and decorative blocks. Swinging Lanterns and Perfect Plushies add small finishing touches. Construction Wand makes large builds faster.
Food & farming: the Kaleidoscope mods (Cookery, Tavern, Chinese Food) and Manor's Bounty add crops, recipes and a full cooking system. Fisherman's Trap and Pikafishing add more ways to fish.
Companions & creatures: Tameable Beasts, Pet Shop, Critters and Companions, Alex's Mobs and Primal Frontier Legacy add pets, wildlife and even dinosaurs.
Automation & progression: Create (with Create: Connected and Create Crafts & Additions) lets you build machines and power systems. Pufferfish's Skills and Adventurer Skills add skill trees. ProjectE and Project Expansion add an item-conversion system.
Quality of life: Sophisticated Backpacks, Waystones for fast travel, Carry On, FTB Ultimine, Inventory Profiles Next, Xaero's Minimap and World Map, Jade and JEI.
Atmosphere: Daily Weather, Sound Physics Remastered, Dynamic Lights, Exposure (an in-game camera), and the shaders Sildur's Vibrant, BSL and Bliss.
What you can do
Build a cottage and furnish every room with Cozy Home furniture.
Cook a full meal with Kaleidoscope Cookery and serve it in a tavern.
Tame a pet, then head into Alex's Caves to explore its underground biomes.
Make a camera with Exposure and photograph your builds and favorite views.
Set up a Create water wheel or windmill to automate your farm.
Unlock skills as you explore and fight

