Enigmatica6 VS Rebirth-Of-The-Night

The first modpack I ever played was enigmatica 6 expert. But i think plain enigmatica 6 would be better for your first time! https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/enigmatica6

There are tons of modpacks for 1.16.5 and up. You should try out Modpack Index if you have some mods you know you want and don't know which packs have them (I recommend sorting by number of downloads to help filter out the chaff). You didn't really give any rules so how about FTB Endeavour as a decent choice for a general kitchen sink pack on 1.16. You could also try FTB One if you want something really new, AKA 1.19. Enigmatica 6 is another high-quality 1.16 kitchen sink you could check out.

The one thing that I absolutely take issue with is that Enigmatica packs are objectively high effort and have been polished and improved over a huge amount of time - you can go look at the GitHub pages for each of them and see just how many commits there are and when they were made. For E2E, there are nearly 1k commits over five years - (https://github.com/EnigmaticaModpacks/Enigmatica2Expert/commits/master) - that's far more than most packs. Enigmatica 6 has over 10,000 commits (https://github.com/EnigmaticaModpacks/Enigmatica6/commits/master), which is the most I've seen in any modpack so far (and here I was proud of my ~1.3k in Valhelsia 3).

E6 IP & link - 91.208.92.218 https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/enigmatica6

Enigmatica comes in two flavors (four if you count 1.12.2 and 1.16.5). Did you play the regular version of Enigmatica, or the Expert version?

If you want a really good kitchen-sink, you gotta jump into Enigmatica 6. It's unbelievably well made and works super well. You can check it out here.

Perhaps try Enigmatica 6 or All the Mods 6

Perhaps FTB University or FTB Academy may be good as a first introduction to modded. For something slightly less aimed at walking beginners through, I would recommend Cuboid Outpost or Enigmatica 6. For a difficult pack, Multiblock madness could also fit quite well

Perhaps try All the Mods 6 or Enigmatica 6

i’ve also heard rebirth of the night is good, but i haven’t played it so i can’t vouch for it. it is quite popular though, so that’s probably a good sign

If you want a better "hardcore" modpack, Rebirth of the Night is a classic. It's a bit old on 1.12.2, but it's actually well put-together.

Of course, pack authors always have the choice to choose a "target version" and stick with it. Some modpack efforts have done just that (GT:NH, ROTN). But mostly we're subject to the whims of Mojang, for better or worse. And I think I would say better. There's few other games that have a modding community as fleshed out as this one.

You'll find the experience you're looking for in Rebirth of the Night which makes Minecraft into a true survival game while using it's strengths to it's advantage.

If you want to start off easy, maybe try a kitchen sink pack like Direwolf20 1.19, or if you want combat, a pack like Rebirth of the Night or Vault Hunters

modpack in question: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/rebirth-of-the-night