This pack is designed to essentially prolong the "vanilla" experience in a way. I added Mekanism for power solutions, Mystical Agriculture for infinite resources via farming, And Draconic Evolution for when you reach the end game and have an abundance of power. Other than that it's all quality of life and answers to a few other things I wanted included or a couple of interesting extras. I wanted it minimilist as possible the progression is linear and easy to understand, and also so early game you can enjoy a vanilla-ish experience.
Mods:
Content:
Applied Energistics: Adds the ME system and other computers for storage and other automation needs
Artifacts: Adds some unique items found only in structures the mod adds
Chococraft: Adds chocobos a mob with several variety useful for early game transportation
Draconic Evolution: End game machinery, bosses and equipment
Mekanism: Great tech/power mod
Mekanism Generators: Adds many new great generators for power for early and late game
Mystical Agriculture: Adds a way to farm valuable materials through aggriculture
Quality of Life:
Chicken Chunks: Adds a block that allows you to keep chunks loaded for your base/farms/etc
ElevatorMod: Adds a simple elevator block making it easier to make a seamless multi-floor base
EnderTanks: Allows you to move fluids wirelessly
Heart Crystals: Adds heart crystals you can find in the world to give yourself more health
Mob Lassos: Adds a lasso giving you the ability to transport mobs efficiently
Nature's Compass: Adds a compass that locates biomes
Sophisticated Backpacks: The best and most unique backpack mod
Performance & Game:
Battle Towers: Adds towers in the overworld and nether with several floors of enemies and loot
Better F3: Makes the F3 menu easier to read
Biomes O' Plenty: Adds lots of new biomes to brighten up your world
Chloride: Sodium+ port to forge
Controlling: Adds the ability to search keybinds
Draconic Evolultion Render Patcher: Fixes render issues with DE when combined with embeddium/oculus
Embeddium: Sodium port to forge
FerriteCore: Performance mod affecting memory usage
GravestoneMod: When you die all of your items will be safe inside a gravestone
Jade: Allows you to see what items/blocks are from which mod
JEI: Allows you to see different crafting recipes across mods
No Horses: Removes horses since chocobos are superior anyways!
Occulus: Forge fork of Iris Shaders
OreExcavation: Allows you to mine a whole vein of ore at one one time via keybind
Portable Spawners: Adds the ability to silk touch spawners
Searchables: Makes it easier to search through different mods
Twighlight Forest: Adds a new dimension with progressive bosses
WorldWarps: Adds the ability to set and teleport to warps via commands

