I found a server that is starting a new season but it keeps the same world from last time. That means you spawn into a place with old builds and leftovers. You can explore and find roads or ruins and decide to finish what someone started.
It is vanilla plus on Fabric. It is meant to feel open ended with no handholding. There are no land claims and there is no economy plugin.
It uses Xaeros Minimap and it has a Dynmap you can view in a browser. There are building focused block mods for more detail options. It also has Friend and Foe.
The server is 18 plus and LGBTQ friendly. You have to apply to join.
Season 2 On A World With Ruins
GG.MINEWIND.NET New Server IPFresh Normal SMP Launching Feb 20
I found a normal SMP that is launching on Feb 20. It is meant to feel simple and close to vanilla.
There is no economy system and it is not modded. It uses only a few plugins but they are not supposed to change gameplay much.
The server supports crossplay and it is up 24 7. They also say there will be no resets so your stuff can stick around long term.GG.MINEWIND.NET New Server IPMinedHype Long Term Vanilla SMP
claim based protectionLong running survivalMostly vanilla playNether stays foreverNo currency system
MinedHype is a friendly long term public survival server that has been run by the same owner for about 6 years. It started back in 1.14 and it has had over 19300 unique players join.
It is mostly vanilla survival on Minecraft 1.21.11. There is no whitelist and there is no pay to win. There is also no economy or money plugin so trading is done with player run shops using items.
The server uses claims for grief protection and CoreProtect is there to help protect the server too. Grief is allowed if an area is not claimed so you still need to be smart about where you build.
The Overworld and Nether are long term and will never reset. There is no set world border and you spawn randomly within the first 40k blocks. You can use random teleport to get farther out then set a home. There are free events with prizes and there is a public shopping district that players can apply to join.GG.MINEWIND.NET New Server IP