incomprehension

I agree Crafty Mynes should be advertised as "Semi-Vanilla" since it does have .home and tp commands, which are not pure vanilla.

But i dont agree/think this is the main reason for the player drop.
When we were #1 on most advertising sites, i'v never seen someone log on and be like "oh this isnt actually vanilla, im leaving". on the contrary, i'v seen more players go "hmmm i think i like this better".
Still, i agree, this is lowkey false advertising.

I think player numbers have gone down simply because we are not as well advertised as we were before.
For that we need to encourage more player votes and, i think, someone would need to make a checkup/update on the sites where we are listed, and maybe also geting listed elsewhere.

As for server issues, I would vote for switching to a moded server, to better deal with performance issues, and use these plugins to make our .homes and .tp work, but no more commands than what we alredy have.
This way, we would have better performance, no more command block issues in special areas, and everything else would stay relatively the same.
pretty sure this would help keep players too.

Poop

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intelligence

Satan

You could also try Sodium , instead of optifine. It uses fabric.
I find it works better!

Thunder storms are disabled, due to some bug. but the weather is not.
You can also type .weather in chat, for 10 points, to make the rain stop.

Tacos

still looking to buy a beacon!