@jadee

List of mods to add:

Valkyrien Skies and Eureka, its the ship mod. It even has ballons so we can make airships.

Effortless Building, makes building super easy with visual building tools. Has so much helpful things like mirroring, copy and paste, numerous shapes to build in, block randomizer, etc

Timeless Gore Engine, adds juicy particle effects upon killing mobs, and they even have cool sounds

Better Weaponry, this one COMPLETELY changes up the game. Forget swords, now youre gonna be using katanas, machetes, sickles, hammers, scythes, daggers, knives, shakras, sledgehammers, battle axes, and much more. They have their pros and cons, like for example, sledgehammer does 25 damage but comes with a cooldown. The best part is, theyre textured like vanilla weapons

Now this is the two mods that completely change your gamd, but make sure to test these to see if you like the result.

First Person Model combined with Better Combat

FPS Model lets you see your body in fps

Better Combat adds combat animations

These two combined makes it so you can have epic slash animations in first person, while seeing your full body

Its really cool and makes the combat super satisfying when these 2 mods are combined with Timeless Gore Engine

It also has support for Better Weaponry, the weapons in better weaponry also have their own animations. Forgot to mention better weaponry has iron-netherite shields

I wanted to recommend copper armor but we got diamond so its useless

Now we have barely explored the overworld, which is why I recommend two mods. Tectonic and Terralith. Terralith adds new biomes and new wood types that are vanilla-ish, and Tectonic adds CRAZY world gen. Theyre meant to be combined together and make hella epic terrain. To see the new mountains and terrain, we just have to go to the unexplored area/chunks of the map

I forgot its name, but theres a mod that makes torches have a light source so you can hold them in your off hand, and also any other light source. It also lets it so that dropped torches emit light so you can even drop torches down a dark cave (which looks really cool)

Js search torch or smth in curseforge and youll see it