Is it just Skyrim that has taken people away from Minecraft? Didn't it become desolate before that? Not been on a while myself so wouldn't know though. Last thing I did was tidy up some of the bottom of my hole but not sure I'll end up using that now. I'm sure that'll make Ant happy ;) Maybe after Skyrim I'll finish it off.
Also, who (if anyone) is playing on Teh Mine recently?
Is there any chance of getting all mobs on, maybe with a plugin that only lets them spawn in the "wilderness" (i.e. natural caves and non built areas), if there's such a thing.
It used to be mobs in general slowing things down, then that was fixed but only animals were turned on because of wimpy people who are all off playing Skyrim now.
And yeah, multiworlds would be handy for people wanting to look at the old stuff.