As I've talked about many times both on stream and on Discord, I am making the difficult decision to reboot the Eggcraft server again, this time into a modded server.
Q&A
Why?
Eggcraft 1 and 2 were thriving, if small, servers that ran from 1.13 to 1.16. It was only with Mojang's decision to split the Caves & Cliffs update into two parts, and their updates going forward, that Eggcraft has become a chore for me.
Regardless of how you feel about Mojang, none of my users have been thrilled - some players did not want Allays, others very much did, every update takes at least a week for me to implement on the server, and the Nether road to newly-generated world content grows comically long. All of this and I have no options to change anything about these features; I'm at the mercy of Mojang. Exhausting!
What mods?
Eggcraft 4 will run my own fork of Crucial 2, which will definitely also have Create, and I'm open to suggestions for any other must-have mods.
How can I run mods?
I'll be more ready to answer technical support questions once I'm closer to the update, but in short, I recommend PrismLauncher. Crucial 2 claims to be a lightweight mod pack so I'm hoping it won't fry your laptops too bad.
Will you upload the world file?
Probably not. It's a huge file and I don't know where to securely host something like that.
When?
All users have until January 1st to make backups of their builds. I recommend Litematica.