There's a shitload of new stuff since people last played, but just this last 1.7 update has doubled the number of biomes, added new trees and flowers, and has stained glass blocks and panes, so there's plenty of potential for doing different things.

Or even just doing the same things as other people have done, because - you know: it's fun, and more than one person is allowed to have fun!

:C

Doesn't need to be a single big collaboration though, and I'd rather people played because they wanted to play rather than feeling compelled to join in on a community thing. (Although if that's what it takes to show people that it is fun, that's obviously fine by me.)

What does it do? Is it still needed?

I would be happy with a setup like the Minecrack server uses - a vanilla server, but with death count displayed in player list, auto-regen turned off (so need golden apples, potions, or beacons). They also placed the first beacon at spawn, to give people a reason to return.