Fine&Refined (abbr. F&R) - is a kitchen-sink modpack for Minecraft 1.16.5 that was created by HotSteak Modpackery as a pack for exciting survival adventures and letsplays. Pack has a big variety of mods. There are more then 145 of them. The authors recommend 8 GB of RAM and more, for normal playing.
The idea to make Fine&Refined appeared 3 months earlier then the pack itself. Originally, it was planned to launch it on 1.6.4, later the authors decided to build it on 1.7.10, and later on 1.12.2. It was hard for them to build the pack on these versions, due to to big mod knowledge base, so that they didn't know, what to put in the pack. F&R was remade dozens of times on older versions, but no success was reached. Eventually, the pack was released for Minecraft 1.16.5.
FerßtéaX, the main developer, can describe the early work with the pack the following way:
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I still remember, how I was making this pack at night, instead of sleeping. A lot of nerves and sleep hours were waisted.