This is a vanilla SMP with an economy focus and a player driven market. People are usually online so it feels active and you can pop in to say hi.
The big goal is to rise up and climb the leaderboards. It has a Founder Season going on too where you can grab a free title for now until the Discord hits 150 members.
The Anchor is a long term Java Survival server that tries to feel like a real home. The big idea is that you can leave for a while and still come back and feel welcome. It is meant to stay familiar so your world does not feel like it disappears.
The server stays close to vanilla survival. There are no resets and nothing that changes the core survival features. Ranks are based on playtime so it is about sticking around instead of finding some weird money farm trick.
The economy is made by the players and there is also an Admin Shop that changes sometimes to help move things along. The owner talks a lot about building around the players who spend the most time on the server and using their feedback to grow it over time.