The map mods are now out for NeoForge 1.20.2/1.20.4! Curse is taking forever to process, Modrinth is all good though.
I haven't finished working on my improved multi-loader multi-mc-version (and multi-mod for minimap/better pvp) setup but got far enough into it to release this. It's going to take a bit more time but should speed things up going forward.
I’m playing on this American Minecraft server. Someone made a free public XP farm, with free drops for everyone.
How did the Americans react?
The farm should not be free because it would hurt the bone trading business, and a free XP farm would be bad because it disincentivizes individual improvement.
It might not come from a purely capitalist point of view. Players on survival servers tend to have a sort of, "things must be earned" mentality.
In that environment, shops allow players to help others. Everything in that shop could be free for anyone to take but that kind of offends the survivalist mentality of "it must be earned". There being a cost for items (be it in diamonds or in trade) not only incentives players to build shops but addresses that desire to earn things.