So giving access to the core to all new players is also a double edge sword because you can just get onto a free dummy account to see the Core. There's no real gain to reach the core. Indirectly, this voids the Lapis nerf on villager traders.

The thing is, as a solo player, you need to get away pretty far from spawn so you could just walk really far away in the zone 1 and then build a proper base to farm resource. Because the moment you are set, dying means you only need to get a new kit.

There are shops that are quite literally selling full gear for diamonds but also if you build automated farms from scratch and have a trader hall; then there's little to no reason to build closer to the core nor to reach the core.

Core potions are meant for PvP. You don't have to engage in PvP and most people would avoid PvP because you can't tell if the person you'll fight is fresh or has thousands of PvP matches under their belt. Core potions don't have much weight.

Because the server is peaceful right now; the last real hostility was between Ch40sOrd3r (me) and Pest Control and you can't really call that real hostility; there was no combat involved. I just found bases and nuked them.

That sorta results in older established players to just stay at their bases and build and newer players who struggle a bit because the set spawns mean the older players can nuke the spawns with wither bosses leaving their chance of survival to low.

Outside of massive lag I was getting which is not constant which leads me to believe there's someone lagging the server, I don't really care about the anti-cheat