The Exploration Enhanced Pack

Exploration Enhanced is a modpack focused on adding depth to Minecraft. From diverse biomes to dark caverns this modpack adds many new and unusual oddities into your game. 

There are many good mods to explore such as create, immersive engineering for the folks who enjoy industrial mods. on the opposite side there is a handful of magic mods like Ars nouveaou.

the main focus is exploration so there is a main focus on flavor mods.

progression methods include:

building a create industry 

become a wizard

dungeon exploring 

and much more