I found a clean survival server on Minecraft 1.21.8 that keeps things super close to normal vanilla.
There are no gameplay mods and no economy stuff and no pay to win. It is just survival the way the game is meant to feel.
It runs on Fabric only for performance and it uses an optimiser setup to help keep TPS steady when people are exploring and generating new terrain. That means smoother chunk loading and more reliable redstone and less random lag.
The player cap is 40 so it stays stable even when a bunch of players are on at once. It feels made for building exploring and just playing together without extra systems getting in the way.
