BatPack

Alternate Current – Redstone overhaul

Better Beds – Block models instead of entity renders

C2ME, Lithostitched, Noisium – World gen optimization mods

Debugify – Assorted bug fixes and a nice privacy change

Entity Culling – Hides unseen tiles/entities

FerriteCore – Memory usage optimization

Scalable Lux: Light engine changes for performance and error fixes

Tweaks for Audio Engine – audio engine changes “to avoid overloading”

VulkanMod – Makes Minecraft use Vulkan instead of OpenGL

Armored Elytra

Basic Weapons

Formations: Overworld and Nether – most vanilla-friendly structures mod I found

Infinity Cave – Roguelike cave system underneath bedrock level with custom mob spawns.

JourneyMap – Good map mod

Lootr – Instanced loot so everybody can get some

RPG Style Player Stat Progression/Levels – Get better at what you do

Wraith Waystones – Simple/effective teleport/waystone mod with personal teleport item options

Areas – Named areas with configurable range and color

Beacon Flight – A balanced version of attainable creative flight for big builds

Better Hanging Signs – More immersive decorative signs

Better Stoneworking – Adds nice to have stonecutter recipes and allows smelting stairs and slabs (cobble->stone->smooth, sandstone->smooth, red sandstone->smooth red)

Block Runner – Paths have a purpose now 🙂

Bridging Mod – Helpful

Building Wands – Very nice building tool

Diagonal Fences, Walls, and Windows

Double Doors – Make double doors/trapdoors function as one

ElevatorMod – Simple and effective elevator, can be concealed, camouflaged, or colored

FurniCraft – Nice vanilla style furniture

Stoneworks – More vanilla style decorative blocks but not an obnoxiously unusable amount

Vanilla Shutters – Sideways trapdoors essentially

Auto Harvest – Automated farms

Easy Mob Farm – Generate mob loot without needed to setup a laggy farm

Enchanting Reimagined – Better than vanilla enchanting system, featuring smelt down useless books into dust to save storage space

Extended Drawers – Bulk storage with nice utility qol upgrades (locking, voiding, compacting)

Mining Quarries – Get ores without having to go generate more chunks

Minium Stone – Transmute common blocks into rarer alternatives for hard to find things

Packed Up (Backpacks) – Simple backpack

Potted Farms – Tree farm

Random Misfits – Paxels, hammers, excavators, glass cutter, repair kits, portable crafting table

Short Circuit – Redstone in a block

Simple Copper Pipes – Simple transport pipes

Toms Storage – Linked storage

Usefulfood Reborn – More foods but not too much

AppleSkin – Useful food HUD changes

Better Enchantment Order – Better ordered enchantments on items

BetterF3 – More readable F3 with included config for reasonable info

Better Than Mending – Can spend XP you already have to repair mending items

Carry On – Pick up and move chests without needing to worry about inventory space

Controlling – Search for controls in keybind menu

Cut Through – Stab the monsters not the grass

Extreme Sound Muffler – For when enderman can’t die quietly…

Graves – Keep inventory but balanced-ish

KISS – Inventory sorting mod

Mod Menu – Search mods and change configs in-game if available

Mouse Tweaks – Better mouse functionality/usablity

Open Parties and Claims – Party up, claim chunks, force load chunks

Roughly Enough Items – JEI type mod that mostly works in vulkan, craft support is broken on a crafting table (intend to replace with EMI when it gets updated)

Tree Harvester – Chop down whole tree with axe

Wool Tweaks – Dye wool/wool-related blocks in world, craft wool into 4 string, dye already dyed wool

WTHIT – Answers the question: What am I looking at?