Eden is a survival server that tries to feel like a real long term world where stuff actually matters. The map does not reset all the time so your builds and projects are meant to last.

Players can make nations and set up rules and run their own economy. There are no admin shops so trading between players is super important. You use chest shops to sell items and crops grow different in different biomes so towns end up needing each other.

Protection is not just some magic claim command. You use materials to reinforce your blocks so they take a ton of hits to break. Offline raiding is possible but really slow and risky so people have time to defend.

There are snitch blocks that record who walks through your base so you can see who visited. If someone griefs you you do not ping an admin. You hunt them down yourself and you can trap them using an exile pearl that sends them to the Nether as punishment until their time is done or someone frees them.

The community has a core group that has been playing together for around ten years and the server already has about twenty people online at peak times. It feels like the early days of a new civilization and now is when the history is just starting.