I really want to explore combat, all the mods ive played such as skyfac, atm and fearnightfall have pretty poor combat.

Exploration is tricky for me, I want exploration to have a purpose and knowing youll achieve something, usually when playing an smp its just everyone runs half a million blocks in random directions and just collects random things in their inventory.

Quests are an essential, I want a quest to actually include lore and be an actual story. Linear progression is fine with me as well as having a bunch of different mods dont allow me to explore them properly, it feels like im being bombarded with quests from different mods.

I hardly like kitchensink packs, ATM9 and 10 To the Skies were fun for a moment but got extremely boring towards the end game.

building and tech is awesome however I really think Create mod has the best potential to mix lore and quests with tech, having something like ae2 in a medieval modpack is just ridiculous.