These are my personal must-have mods. My goal was to make the game more relaxed and immersive for casual solo-play. Nothing too crazy, and nothing that'll break your savegame should you wish to go vanilla, but you'll definitely miss how much easier and more fun the game is with these mods.

just be aware that mods in this list that add TOTALLY NEW dinos and structures (such as ark addittions and rp visual storage) will result in loss if you remove them. the save will work, but of course if you store all your valuables in a chest from a mod and then that mod is gone, the chest (and all the items that were in it) will be gone too. mods in this list that merely change vanilla dinos and structures (such as kraken's better dinos and builder improvements) will NOT result in lost tames or items if removed, however, so you can simply opt out of the totally new stuff and get everything else if you're paranoid.

IMPORTANT; most of these mods can be anywhere in the load order and they all work together- however you MUST make sure that "reduced blueprint costs and repairs" is FIRST in the load order, and that "classic flyers" comes BEFORE "kraken's better dinos". that is all.

i've somewhat sorted the mods in this list by importance/recommended load order/subject. mods near the top are more crucial and mods at the bottom can be totally ignored if you prefer minimal additions/load times. mods that add or change dinos specifically are together, and structures are together, stuff like that.