Now all that needs to be done is reducing the prices of towns (just kidding)

While I appreciate the change I don't think it really fixes the core issue: I have to waste huge amounts of time essentially grinding to obtain the land I need. The problem isn't just the prices but the way income works. I have some thoughts on that, but I think they go a bit off topic so I have posted a new thread with my full write up:

Reconsidering the Economy - Chunk Prices Vs. Shop Usage

As far as traveling in the Wild goes, new players should visit the mining world to obtain some armor first if they aren't good at PVE (or at least avoiding it).  Running through the woods (especially with /kit food) is really pretty easy, and with a little time put into finding some iron it shouldn't challenge anyone. And really, it's the Wild a challenge should be expected.

After having had some time to play around with the new plot prices, I still think they are SIMPLY TOO HIGH.

Once again I like to refer back to the promise you guys made back on the builder streams when you were still preparing for V6. Where you ENSURED ME IT WOULD BE NO PROBLEM TO COLLECT 400 CHUNKS FOR MY BUILD. Right now, I already had to tone down that 400 to 120 last week, and this week I had to lower it down even more to 95 because it just isn't possible to get many more chunks without spending too much real life money on it. And even to get to those 97 plots, that is 41 more since I already have 56 plots, I still need 15-20 MILLION NOOBZ FOR IT. Even if you do say, like you said last night, that the economy is set up to potentially be 10 times bigger, this amount of money would still take me 6 months to get if I compare it with my V5 earnings and multiply it by 10.

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Right now it would only take me A WEEK TO GO OUT, GET A JOB, AND EARN THE MONEY I NEED TO BUY 40 MORE PLOTS, while it would take 6 MONTHS AT LEAST TO GET THE NOOBZ FOR IT.

You are just discouraging every fanatic builder from going for a nice, big wilderness build. In fact, even if I spent real life money on it, it would be like 6-8 times cheaper to just save up 850k for a town, and buy myself 400 towny plots for my original build than it would be to buy 40 extra plots for my current idea. You didn't make a lasting wilderness world. You made an empty one with small, useless buildings because everyone that likes to build big will just go to the towny world. I wouldn't mind it that much if you had told in the builder streams that it would be this much. What I do hate is that you guys don't keep promises you made and seem hellbent on destroying everyone's hope at getting a nice big wilderness build if they desire to do so.  Last night I even got told that having a lot of wilderness chunks is "endgame". It's not everyone's endgame dream to own a big piece of land. For me gettin the big area is just my early game. My endgame would be just grinding mcmmo and helping other players out by providing them with cheap/free resources. Sorry if I sound annoyed in this post, but I am pretty annoyed just because in everything they say and do the admins don't seem to want people building big stuff in the wild.

One of my issues with exploring in the wild is death from falls. I had a fall in the wild, and my stuff fell into a cave that was inaccessible, because I couldn't break or place blocks.

If VIP's are online you could ask them for help if ot happens again. They could /jump up there and get you your lost stuff before it despawns.
They could also jump up that cliff and let you tpa to them there.