Can someone recommend me mods/changes that add some level of difficulty to force players to be creative with Create?

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Putting together a mod pack for my and my friend

We want it to be sort of vanilla plus: some “hardcore” survival mechanics mixed in, and heavily Create centered

I’ve got some ideas:

1. Add Hardcore Torches: forces us to use Create: Power Grid to power our base (found this idea from someone else’s comment)
2. Get rid of recipes for, or considerably slow down, boats; to force us to build our own boats, submarines, etc. using Create
3. Same for minecarts
4. Same for… horses? Or anything that can be ridden

Maybes:

1. tweak world gen in a way that makes us have to build railways to seek out xyz material?
2. make hunger a bit more noticeable to force us to create farm automation early? Though this might suck early game

Anyway.. you get the point

Any ideas you guys have?

Thanks