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all this is still going to be reliant on the player population.

as players go to sleep, either some families get wiped out, or all families suffer a burden.

so either NPCs have to be added, or, people who died during living lineage should spawn in the same village next time they log in (so the family line is preserved offline)

why not just improve the wiki?     anyone can modify it...

if you chop down a tree, but dont dig up the stump,  and you move the firewood & log away,  the stump will despawn.  i think 200 years (minutes) maybe.     if you screw up milkweed the stump will eventually despawn.

I would like for barren rabbit holes to eventually de-spawn or repopulate, but we should be able to bury the rabbit hole with a shovel.

i do this,  I also like to hide a seeding row behind a tree

this is biggest issue as female with long hair, or when wearing wolf cloak.

need to bring the backpack clickable area in front of the player.

and make rightclick cycle through backpack contents like you did with the baskets /carts   (OMFG THANK YOU FOR THAT BTW)

thats where those wells are gonna come in handy

One way to handle to greifers, would be to have the system spawn them in the middle of no where for a few days/weeks (real time). So they can cool off, and join society when they are more mature

yeah thats what i said

On a different note, as far as how many servers to have / how to spread populations,  I think the most effective method is probably still the classic mmo method:

List all the servers, and their current populations and let players pick which servers to play on.

I would still keep in the Auto-server-select feature (make it a checkbox option during server select),  but to improve on the boring old method, I would make this modification:

Allow players to select "Favorite Servers".

Give each player the ability to mark a couple servers with their priority. So they have say 4 favorites, they mark them #1 - #4  and when they respawn, if they have Auto-server-select option turned on, the spawn spread algorithm tries to place them with priority on their favorite servers, until those populations are too high.

So you get the best of both worlds.  People can still chose to stay working on a specific server, or they can bounce around as they please ( pretty much already doing this with customServerAddress ) as easily as checking a box on the respawn screen.   

and you wont have as many dead servers when overall game population declines eventually, since likely numerous people will have selected a low pop server as their favorite, most servers will still have a dedicated group justifying keeping it alive.

Of course inevitably some servers will die off, but you can let it happen more naturally.

And thinking about it, you could curb the spawn center at the very high end of the local tech,  so once a village has grown to the end of the tech tree and sustained for a while (getting stagnant gameplay-wise),  push the spawn radius center away from the village, so people can start a fresh life in the wilderness again.   
Automated cyclical evolution.   
with the added bonus of explorability, because as time goes on, a single person choosing to spend their whole life exploring in a single direction would be able to stumble upon numerous abandoned mega-villages,      rather than just tiny failed camps.
Perhaps that person could make it back to living villages as an old person and try to tell people about their discovery, and get people to migrate and reclaim the old cities.
If you have some really long term perishability on items, like baskets, seeds, and stone/wood tools and such (maybe 10,000 years? 50k ?), those abandoned mega cities would still require a lot of work to bring alive again,  but it would be a somewhat different approach than just building a fresh city, since you might still have things like Walls and floors and roads and wells(dry?) and kilns and forges, etc.

Anyway, food for chewing