I wanted to suggest the complete opposite ...

I love to play Minecraft, Vanilla that is. But Singleplayer is boring as hell so I don't play it at all, just watch a ton of youtube about minecraft. Now, isn't it possible to have a vanilla server next to the mod-server? I know for a short period we had one and I played it but then it disappeared.

If anyone would be able to set this up, I'd love it and play on it weekly again (and I would finally have a game to play with the gf). I'll setup a spawn town and what not for whenever someone else wants to join in

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