I appreciate that the transition from the server in its current state to a server running one or more of the following mods may be a little difficult but hear me out!

I play Single Player with the Mo' Creatures and Better than Wolves mods installed (and a little bit of buildcraft, although I personally find that it makes it slightly too complex) I think that BTW particularly enhances the Minecraft experience, giving a lot more variety to the game. Or at the very least; add a mod that gives more farming opportunities (being a keen farmer myself - not sure if such a mode exists though)

Better than wolves essentially enhances the farming aspect of the game, introducing mills, a few new crops etc.

Mo' creatures is just a load more animals! Great fun.

Better Than Wolves Mod:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/253365-10-better-than-wolves-and-santa-claus-mod-v346-upd-dec-27/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVVrZqHqA8

Mo' Creatures Mod:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/81771-v100-mo-creatures-v31-with-goats-jellyfish-mantarays-and-stingrays/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aohtxgH5yHk

Check out the links!

TPrezzle

SMP for Mo' Creatures is outdated from what I saw, and I wouldn't want it anyway. As for Better Than Wolves, I don't know...

Better than wolves is definitely worth a watch at least!

I've seen lets plays with it, I'm going to install it now for a test run and see how it goes.

Yeah you should enjoy it! You can also grow hemp <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object> To use the fibers as rope, I hasten to add. <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f609.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=";)">;)</object>

BtW is nice, but its not really a good idea for a heavily active server. It is designed for SPM. Also, it would need to be converted into a Plug-in so that everyone can use it on the server, or EVERYONE would have to edit it into their .jar files.

Single player mods and multiplayer plugins are not compatible. You can't run single player mods on a server.

Look there if you want to see plugins:

http://dev.bukkit.org/

check this out: http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/366-mod-api-coming-in-january/

"Tools such as bukkit will finally be getting a supported method of integrating their mods into Minecraft, blowing open the doors to developers." maybe it will be backwards also? can't wait to get falsebook in SP though <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f600.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":d">:d</object>