1. harder gameplay. in some modpacks you can make the end game things after 2 days. in crash landing it took me 4 weeks. which means either harder to find things to build with or harder crafting recipes.
2. more exploration than vanilla minecraft. and ive run through twilight forest so many times its not even fun anymore. i want a reason to venture outside of my base
3. more mobs/harder mobs than regular modpacks/vanilla. crash landing did this really well.
4. cosmetic blocks like chisel and carpentry would be amazing. i wont play on a modpack which doesnt have microblocks.
5. atleast minecraft 1.6.4, but preferbly 1.7
6. must contain applied energistics
I'm working to finish up the work on AdventurePack this week. The focus was on a much harder modpack, with a bit less high end tech (so no IC2 or Gregtech), more exploring, and lots of death in interesting ways. It will be hosted on the lolnet servers. (lolnet.co.nz) Website is https://lolnet.co.nz/ You can log into the lobby and go to the server from there. You can get the modpack off of the FTB Launcher with packcode of Adventurepack. An early version of it is up there now, but not the finished version. Adding more mods, changing up some worldgen etc.
As to your questions:
1. Much harder gameplay, just shy of bnb level. No weight restrictions for instance. Lots of nasty mobs, using several of Father Toast's mods. Tinkers tools, no vanilla tools. Hunger Overhaul, spice of life, enviormine, weather2, etc to make your life hell. You will die from landslides, tornadoes, quicker drowning, and earthquakes. Thirst is in, sorry about that, we went with the full array of tools from enviormine, including physics.
2. You'll need to explore. Some things are tougher to get, and you'll want to go delving into Roguelike Dungeons, and all sorts of things from Ruins. I'm working now on adding a lot more ruins than the basic ones, and having them spawn in all biomes. Trickier, since we are using Highlands, and it has a lot of biomesAnd you'll need to venture into various dimensions to get all you need to progress: Nether of course, the dream realm from witchery, the new thaumcraft dimension of Xth'outh, the Deep Dark, twilight forest, and finally the End. Twilight has a lot more to it now, with a progressive system of bosses leasing to the Thornlands and Giants. And villages, you'll want to find villages. Some are floating in the sky, some are massive in size, and all have interesting interactive villagers curtesy of Minecraft comes alive. I
3. If you liked crashlanding, you'll like the mob count in this one
4.I like building. Yes on Chisel and Carpenters blocks and Microblocks.
5. 1.7.10
6. Has AE, however, you'll have to work hard to get up to it.
i might try this once its finished. i dont like starting over all again because something changed.
i tried omega dawn but i couldnt get it to work with the pack on the launcher with the server files together. so im still open for some more stable modpacks