Versions :
Minecraft 1.18.2
forge 40.0.36
ImmersiveEngineering 8.0.0-146

crash report :
https://gist.github.com/lebanni/b5eaa9c281873d96a7d8cdfaf936a86f

Sorry for creating a duplicate thread then.
I'll mention it here:

The issue seems to be linked to an incompatibility with OptiFine.

Yeah. We know. We've literally closed multiple issues relating to this, and Optifine is very much not supported.

Says so in the contribution guidelines. Luckily, Malte has found a way to make it at least not crash, which will be included in the next version. Until then, play without Optifine.