Me before curating this collection:
"I'll try to keep this one basic.
So maybe only 100 mods."
And I did it. Only took one afternoon, too.

Jokes aside, this is my "Vanilla+"-Collection for 1.5 (some mods are still 1.4 but should work).
It contains the mods I cannot live without. Some of them are for management, some make colonists smarter, others change the Rimworld-experience significally (hauling multiple items, multiple weapons) but they just make sense to me. I don't recommend this one for beginners, since the UI gets quite large. But having played 1000+ hours of the game, I need this level of control.

I've linked some more collections, "1.5 Extension Mods" contains mods with more significant gameplay changes, most of which I use regularly as well. Particularly, I really like Dubs Bad Hygiene and No Water, No Life but they make the game harder, especially early game, by adding hygiene and water needs.

- Better Pawn Control got updated by the original author, I replaced it
- added InventoryTab, it got updated to 1.5

Thanks for using my collection, I hope you have fun with it :)
I mostly make these for myself (I have been playing with mods for years), I didn't expect this one to get this many views haha