OK, thanks for clarifying. As far as industrial revolution goes, most of my mods add objects rather than control scripts, so they typically are not compatible with IR, as IR rewrites the entire tech tree. I've been thinking about working them to be compatible, but, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right, so I'm waiting for Deadlock to bugfix and finalize. It's likely that my mods are nearly compatible, and easily fixed to be, since I use a progammatic approach to modifying technologies, but, the dependencies in some of my mods (Simple Silicon and Gold Processing, for example) are definitely not compatible, so I'll have to do something about that.
Regarding the mods I recommend, yes, there are many. I have a mod pack that I use on my server network. I was thinking about creating a metapackage to include the entire mod kit. For now, I'll give you the list of mods:
aai-vehicles-hauler
accumulator-wagon
adamo-blimp
adamo-calibration
adamo-carbon
adamo-catalogue
adamo-chemical
adamo-chopper
adamo-cinefaction
adamo-clicker
adamo-clusterio
adamo-companions
adamo-contraptions
adamo-nuclear
adamo-physics
adamo-pipes
adamo-spacesuit
additional-paste-settings
AdminCommands
auto-research
autocolor
AutoDeconstruct
AutoTrash
beautiful_bridge_railway
big-wooden-pole
BlueprintExtensions
bobinserters
Bonfire
Bottleneck
CanalBuilder17
CleanTiles
Command_and_Conquer_Low_Power_Alerts-016
Command_and_Conquer_RedAlert_Sounds
community-chest
Concrete_Lamppost
deadlock-beltboxes-loaders
DeadlockBasicOil1760
DeadlockLargerLamp
Dectorio
DeleteEmptyChunks
DiscoScience
DragonIndustries
electricboiler
emote
even-distribution
EvoGUI
Evolution Reduction
FactorIO
Factorissimo2
FARL
Flags
flamethrower-fluid
Flammable_Oils
Flare Stack
fluid_permutations
Fracking
gas-boiler
gas-furnace
gas-generator
Generic_Logistic_Chest
GhostBuster
GhostScanner
GoldMining
heat-furnace
HeatPipeAlwaysGlow
Honk
Improved_Nomenclature
infinitycorpeslive
Infinizoom
Inventory Sensor
ItemFinder
LandfillEverything
laserlines
light-detector
LightCone
logistic-cargo-wagon
LuaCombinator3
M-Dirigible
magnet-signal
manual-inventory-sort
mfga-alchemy
mfga-bees
mfga-stack-furnace
ModuleInserter
nicefill
Nightfall
nixie-tubes
OmegaDrill
Orphan Finder
OutpostPlanner
PipeMeterRedux
PlannerCore
Powered_Entities
quantized-inserter
QueueToFront
quickbarimportexport
RadioNetwork
rainbow-fluids
RealisticDecorationCleanup
Renamer
reverse-factory
robot_tree_farm
Rocket-Silo-Construction
rso-mod
SchallRemainsPickup
Science-droids
Shinys-parkingzone_A16
Shortcuts
SimpleSilicon
some-corpsemarker
Soundpack-alerts-and-sirens
stdlib
steambarrel
SulfurFromOils
tackleautorun
textplates
underground-pipe-pack
UndergroundCablesPlusPlus
uniturret
uranium-belts
vanilla-loaders-hd
VehicleGrid
VehicleSnap
VisionRadar
Warehousing
what-is-it-really-used-for
WireShortcuts
YARM
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