I found a small vanilla plus Minecraft server that is trying to stay close to normal Minecraft. It adds some extra stuff like furniture and new crafting recipes like new types of armor. There are also some new items but it does not go too wild.
It is not a full modpack. You are supposed to drag the mods from a zip into your mods folder in whatever loader setup you use.
The rules are simple. No cheating or hacking at all. That includes hacked clients and exploits and dupes and xray and stuff like that. But griefing raiding stealing and killing are allowed so it can get messy if you are not careful.
The community is meant to stay pretty small. The server used to be a different theme before and some parts of the discord still mention that.
Small Vanilla Plus Survival Hangout
GG.MINEWIND.NET New Server IPCozyMC New Year Vanilla Survival
This server feels like a big friendly world where everyone plays real vanilla survival. It is all about trust and long term players. People build bases and shops without using claim plugins or locked chests and it actually works.
There are no payments or donations or perks. There is no monetization at all. Everyone plays the same and there is no pay to win stuff.
To get full survival access you have to read the rules first and follow the steps. That is how they keep the server safe and make sure new players know how things work.
The owner is super into survival and you can tell the community was built slowly with hard work. If you want a simple survival server with a real trust based community this one is worth trying.GG.MINEWIND.NET New Server IP