Hiii, sooo about coding I don't know a lot either. But what you're asking about sounds like you would really enjoy the 'Complex Breeding' mod, which is in the modpack by default. The modpack post is linked towards the bottom of the very first page.
flannan has written a really amazing lovely document telling all of us how you can install the modpack into your game if you're maybe a bit overwhelmed doing it by yourself without advice like I was. It's below any of his messages or in his About section of his profile. If you knew about it already, then I'm really sorry for wasting your time, I just thought you might like this one maybe if you didn't. About anything modding in general I feel like
Krongorka is the person around here to best ask directly about anything. He's great and I'm sure he'll help with anything as best as he can :3