Popping back in to agree with this. I hopped around servers for a while, several times, but couldn't find anything that matches CraftyMynes for the vanilla experience while still having a good community, and good staff.

The alternative where I spent most my time was run by an owner who just could not hear the most blatant, loudest problems the community was pointing to. He had allowed all end portals to be broken, and had ignored a corrupt mod. Yet several of us had been reporting this for ages; long enough for me to examine every single end portal; long enough for another player to literally fake-earn the trust of the bad players and become a spy. Took him about a month. Within an hour of him exposing the corrupt mod (he was finally let in to their manufactured end portal), the map was obliterated and all players lost everything. Point is, this was discussed in the owner's Discord daily, and messaged directly to him over and over... for absolutely ages.

Another one I tried came close, but it just would not stop spamming huge admin messages. Couldn't get past it.

The admin presence in Crafty has always been positive. I love the ban & jail system hehe... everyone celebrates by trying to win the villian's head. And the community in Crafty has always been relatively very, very low in BS, with even fair play base-destroying, looting, and player-killing taken in a respectable way by everyone.

Might be a bit late but I also want to state my agreement.

I've played on this server since I was 12 back in 2015 under _Confederacy_ and this community had a significant impact on my childhood. This was the first place I ever felt a sense of belonging outside of school and family. Eventually I moved to other communities as this server waned in player count but nothing has ever matched the experience I had here. Now that I'm in college I also find myself too busy to really play this game anymore but if I ever find the time to I would happily play again with all of you guys.

Thank you all for the experience here.