The largest modpacks seem to be sticking to 1.12 for at least a little while longer, due to heavy code organization changes in 1.13, but you can easily play sta

The largest modpacks seem to be sticking to 1.12 for at least a little while longer, due to heavy code organization changes in 1.13, but you can easily play stable modpacks running on at least 1.16.5.. None of these are officially allowed mods, for that stuff you need to go to resource packs and/or data packs, which provide a sanctioned, but (AFAIK) is more limited ability to extend the game. Look into the FTB modpacks (or darkosto’s modpacks like skyblock or sevtech) they (like most modpacks tbh) come with a launcher that selects the correct minecraft version and assembles all the mods. I’ve been running at least two modpack launchers, and playing around 5-6 modpacks in addition to vanilla since the start of covid and it’s generally quite smooth (had to restore from backups a few times, but the backups themselves were automatically created by mods included in the pack.) Edit: If you want an amazing experience from caveman to rocket scientist, try Sevtech: Ages. If you want to learn how all these techy mods work, try FTB University (maybe FTB Academy first.) If you want to play on 1.16.5 try FTB Endeavor. If you wanna try a large stable ungated modpack, try FTB Revelation. (There are lots of other modpacks that are great, but these I have recent experience with.)