Liam's Exploration Expansion

A modpack primarily focused on enhancing exploration, immersion, and providing vanilla tweaks. This mod preserves the core Minecraft feel while also adding much needed variety and incentives to explore and progress throughout your survival world. The 1.16.5 version is a very light modpack with fewer changes, but the new 1.20.1 version has a new modlist, which is sort of a mix between the lighter 1.16.5 version and my more intense and heavier exploration-centered modpack, Exploration Reinvented, found here: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/exploration-reinvented

Notable Mods and Features (1.20.1)

Alex's Mobs, Exotic Birds, Aquaculture, More Mob Variants, Friends & Foes: Adds numerous mobs and variants, mostly non-hostile overworld ones. Config is customized to remove some mobs which do not fit the vanilla feel.

Ambient Sounds, Sounds Physics Remastered, Distant Horizons, Vibrant Journeys, Biomes O'Plenty, Fireflies, Presence Footsteps: Improve overworld ambience, visual quality, and immersion.

Yung's Better ..., Moog's Voyager and End Structures, Bygone Nether, Durt's Nether Dungeons, Towns and Towers,: Improve and add structures to the overworld, end, and nether.

Farmer's Delight and add-ons: Add more crops, foods, and recipes.

Marusjz's Progressive Difficulty and Enchantments: Adds progressive difficulty system (highly configured for this modpack) and enchantments.

Essential: Greatly improves multiplayer functionality with full-fledged friend system.

Numerous vanilla tweaks and performance improving mods are also included, along with distant-horizons compatible shaders for great visuals. See the modlist for more information.

Screenshots

All screenshots taken with complimentary reimagened shaders and distant horizons on 512 chunk setting.

Notable Mods and Features (1.16.5)

Ambient sounds: Adds new biome sound effects

Better caves: Self explanatory, improves cave generation and adds new cave biomes

Better Mineshafts: Improves mineshafts

Biomes O' Plenty: Adds over 50 new biomes

Dungeons Plus: Adds new dungeons

Earth Mobs: Adds mobs from Minecraft Earth

JEI: Displays all items in an interface and shows how to craft them and the uses for those items

Quark: Adds a ton of vanilla tweaks and features, too much to summarize here

Repurposed Structures: Uses existing Minecraft structures and changes the block palate to fit different biomes/dimensions

Xaeros Minimap/Worldmap: Adds a minimap and worldmap with waypoints

Gameplay

Check out the Modded Minecraft series for an extensive playthrough of the Vanilla Plus modpack! The world for this series is included with the modpack.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9meoYOG9QnZstGvzQoZWx4DOeOw1Hk6Z

All credit goes to the modders that allowed me to create this modpack, all the modpages for this modpack are linked down below and may also help you learn more about the individual mods and features. The comments are open down below for questions of any kind and new mod recommendations for future updates. I will try my best to answer ASAP, enjoy!

All Mods For Forge 1.16.5: http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/index_1.16.5.html

Ambient Sounds: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ambientsounds

AutoRegLib: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/autoreglib

Better Caves: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/yungs-better-caves

Better Mineshafts: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/yungs-better-mineshafts-forge

Clumps: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/clumps

Collective: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/collective

Creative Core: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/creativecore

Dungeons Plus: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dungeons-plus

Earth Mobs Mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/earth-mobs

Easy Magic: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/easy-magic

Effete Wood: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/effete-wood

Fast Leaf Decay: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fast-leaf-decay

JEI: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/jei

Kotlin: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kotlin-for-forge

Passive Shield: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/passive-shield

Quark: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/quark

Repurposed Structures: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/repurposed-structures

Sound Filters: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/sound-filters

Structure Gel: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/structure-gel-api

Swing Through Grass: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/swingthroughgrass

Trample Stopper: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/trample-stopper

Xaero's Minimap (Fair-Play): https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/xaeros-minimap-fair-play-edition

Xaero's Worldmap: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/xaeros-world-map

YungsApi: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/yungs-api

Installation

Automatically through Curseforge launcher by downloading the desktop and installing this modpack, or manually by downloading the file from the website, unzipping using WINRAR or other software and dropping the individual mods into the mods folder in the .minecraft directory (this requires a forge install).

Performa nce Requirements

This is a fairly light modpack so it should be able to run well on lower and midrange PC's. If you want to run shaders, download Optifine externally here: https://optifine.net/downloads and add to your mods folder manually in curseforge using the open folder option found under the three dots by the orange play button. I recommend BSL, Complimentary Shaders, and Sildurs vibrant Shaders. You can also add external shaderpacks using the same method as optifine, but with external shaders using the shaderpacks fodler. If you are experiencing low framerates I would recommend turning off shaders, putting graphics settings to low, and using the optimal Optifine settings, guide here: https://gameplayerr.com/best-optifine-settings-for-fps/. If you are experiencing inconsistent framerate and stuttering I would recommend allocating more RAM to Minecraft, Guide for how to allocate RAM to Minecraft Forge here: https://cubedhost.com/help/en/articles/1648388-how-do-i-allocate-more-memory-to-my-minecraft-launcher-client-side. Curseforge Launcher here: https://youtu.be/uZpG9WnxoM8

Usage

If you decide to make any content using this modpack I would like to be credited and have this page linked so others can find the modpack. Besides that, feel free to use and customize this modpack to your liking and adapt it in any way, although I cannot guarantee the modpack will function if edits are made.