Board Thread:Modded Servers/@comment-31800796-20180113190907/@comment-26172435-20180113201401

It's not the server features that determines the economic behaviour of the players, it's the players. You can do your building thing on any LOTRmodded server without grinding. Just don't waste your time grinding and build and/or roleplay in any way you wish. Ignore grinders like a plague. I've managed to do this on any server I play on and I still live.

Many servers in this community that have been around for a long time owe this to a community that spends most of its time building, regardless of how their core community spends the rest of its time. For sure, you will find serious building efforts on many of the most reknown and/or frequented servers around, like: The Official Server, Awakening, Fellowships, hARDA, First Age Server, Isildurs Bane, The One Ring, etcetera.

For what it's worth: the LOTRmod economy is pretty well established. Grinding is simply part of the game and its community, and it cannot be disabled with the current mod mechanics. To my knowledge there is no LOTRmod server that actually has mods or plugins capable of smuthering the grinding aspects built in the mods economy. Same holds for vanilla Minecraft anyway. Only true grind-free variant I know of is TerraFirmaCraft (TFC).

So, either accept grinding by others and just don't do it yourself (or join the grinding ratrace), or stop playing Minecraft, or settle for TFC.