attached is a list of mods used and the screen shown by the game on startup
https://imgur.com/a/huXeGrf
the mod seems to work with another group of mods, though with this group, it freezes on startup

sorry if you are unable to identify the error due to a lack of logs provided, i've tried manually crashing the game, but a crash log cannot be generated

I tried to launch the newest builds with the list of mods provided, everything seems to be loading fine.
Try this build for 1.17 or this build for 1.18.
If the same issue occurs, please provide a log - it does not need to be a crash log, as the game technically does not crash, a regular log (latest.log) contains all the details required.
Closing for now, as I cannot reproduce.

thank you so much! i'll download the artifact and test it out