NerdNu is a medium sized Minecraft community that feels like mostly vanilla play and people actually talk and build together. It is one of the older public multiplayer servers and it aims for that classic belonging feeling.
There are two main servers you can join. PvE is survival with no player fighting so you only worry about mobs. Players team up a lot and build towns and bigger city projects. The PvE world reset on September 19th and they also run games nights with different hosted events on Fridays and Saturdays.
Creative is open world and it mixes normal generation with world painted terrain. You can protect your builds and WorldEdit is free to use if you want it. Creative also has community events like Spleef and Speed Build on alternating Saturdays. Creative started Revision 38 on June 22 2024.
Both servers are listed as version 1.21.10. The snapshot server is closed right now because of the most recent updates.

