Vanilla With Some Sugar

My goals with this pack are to keep it relatively light and to not stray too far from vanilla. The only tech mod I added is Refined Storage because I hate having hundreds of chests :D. There’s only a few “big” content mods such as Biomes O’ Plenty, Pam’s HarvestCraft, and Tinker’s Construct.

In my testing it seems to be fine with 3 GB of RAM allocated, but try bumping it to 4 if you run into issues.

Content mods:

• Biomes O’ Plenty | Lots of beautiful new biomes to explore. Compatible with ZAWA.
• Chisels & Bits | Adds tools that give you a nearly endless array of new blocks to build and decorate with.
• Contruct’s Armory | Allows you to create armor with Tinker’s Construct.
• Exotic Birds | Adds a bunch of birds.
• Hats | Adds a huge number of hats that you can acquire by killing mobs.
• Lil’ Critters | An addon for ZAWA. Adds various small critters such as squirrels.
• Pam’s HarvestCraft | Adds a ton of food you can harvest and craft into fancy dishes.
• Quark | A large collection of miscellaneous items, blocks, and game tweaks. Additions/tweaks
• Refined Storage | Provides mass storage and automation. Inspired by Applied Energistics.
• Spice of Life: Carrot Edition | Rewards you for trying many different types of food.
• Thermal Foundation | Primarily for new ores (Copper, Tin, etc.), but it adds other neat stuff as well.
• Tinker’s Construct | Highly customizable tools and weapons.
• Zoo & Wild Animals Rebuilt (ZAWA) | Adds a ton of animals, and some blocks.

Quality of life mods:

• AppleSkin | Shows you the saturation value of food, and how much saturation you currently have.
• Baubles | Allows some items like backpacks to be equipped without taking up armor slots.
• Better Advancements | Expands the advancements screen.
• Better Builder’s Wands | Adds wands that help you build faster.
• Carry On | Pick up things like chests by holding Shift and right-clicking them.
• Ceiling Torch | Place torches on the underside of blocks.
• CleanView | Removes particle effects from your viewpoint.
• Clumps | Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag, and makes XP absorption instant.
• Controlling | Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu.
• Crafting Tweaks | Adds a few things like buttons for rotating, balancing, or clearing the crafting grid.
• DefaultSettings | Provides default settings that don’t overwrite user changes on modpack updates.
• Diet Hoppers | Shrinks the hitbox on hoppers so you can reach blocks behind them.
• Ding | Plays a small “Ding!” noise when the pack finishes loading.
• Enchantment Descriptions | Allows you to see descriptions on enchanted books.
• Fast Leaf Decay | Makes leaves decay very quickly when there are no more logs touching them.
• FastWorkbench | A few crafting table performance optimizations.
• FTB Backups | Backs up your world automatically.
• FTB Utilities | Useful utilities, such as the inventory trashcan for quickly deleting items.
• Improved Backpacks | Upgradeable portable storage.
• Iron Chests | Upgradeable chests.
• JourneyMap | Adds a minimap and waypoints.
• Just Enough HarvestCraft (JEHC) | A JEI addon for Pam’s HarvestCraft.
• Just Enough Items (JEI) | Allows you to view all blocks and items, their recipes, and which recipes they’re used in.
• Just Enough Resources (JER) | A JEI addon that adds mob drops, dungeon loot, ore gen, and plant drops.
• More Overlays | Adds several overlays that show you things like which blocks can spawn hostile mobs.
• Mouse Tweaks | Several inventory tweaks, such as Shift+left-click+drag to quickly move many items.
• Nature’s Compass | A tool for finding biomes.
• NetherPortalFix | Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
• OpenBlocks Elevator | Adds just the Elevator block from OpenBlocks, which allows quick travel between floors.
• Ore Excavation | Allows you to harvest connected blocks all at once by holding a hotkey, grave (`) by default.
• Player Plates | Adds a couple of useful pressure plates.
• PortableCraft | Adds a portable version of things like the crafting table, bed, furnace, and anvil.
• Refined Storage Addons | Adds the Wireless Crafting Grid.
• SaturationOverflow | Allows you to gain saturation past the default maximum of 20.
• Save My Stronghold! | Keeps strongholds from being maimed by worldgen.
• SwingThroughGrass | Allows you to hit entities instead of grass.
• The One Probe | A HUD that shows you information about the item, block, or entity that you are looking at.
• The Trash Bin Mod | Adds a trash bin that allows you to quickly delete a lot of items.
• Tinker’s JEI | A JEI addon for Tinker’s Construct.
• Tinker’s Tool Leveling | Tinker’s Tools gain experience with use and earn a modifier slot when they level up.
  
• Toast Control | Gives you control over toast notifications. Disables toasts for recipes and tutorials by default.
• Tomb Many Graves 2 | Spawns a grave where you died, saving the contents of your inventory.
• TOP Addons | An addon for The One Probe that adds integration for mods such as Tinker’s Construct.
• Torchmaster | Adds a few blocks such as the Mega Torch, which blocks mob spawning in a large area.
• VanillaFix | Various performance fixes.
• Waystones | Blocks that allow you to teleport between them.
• Yoyos | Adds Yoyo weapons.

Thanks to my friend Josh Alfaro for creating the thumbnail!