Cool, I tried to make it add-able to existing saves in the sense that it wont crash. BM: Hunger will cause you to starve so I would make sure you are near bioflux or fish to eat if you add it. BM: Industry will change a lot of the basic recipes so you would need to redo elements of your existing factories. BM: Wit change recipes for space science and lasers so you would need to redo those on wit. BM: Radioactive tissue makes biolabs consume u-235 instead of energy. BM: Balack and BM: Homeworld should be add-able without any problems.
If you install BM: Modpack all standalone modules in BM: Core are activated by mods it contains. The standalone settings are for partial modpack downloads (including just BM: Core) to activate the modules to your preference. All the main BM mods (hunger, wit, etc.) download the standalone modules that I felt were useful.
Thanks for pointing my vagueness out, I will update the descriptions later.