Any chance for the next world we could get someone who's good at command blocks to make it possible to have Mob Griefing turned on?
Mob Griefing allows mobs to break blocks and pick up things. This includes things like creepers blowing up blocks, endermen picking them up, zombies picking up weapons, villagers picking up food, villagers breaking and planting crops, etc.
I totally get the reason to disable creepers and endermen messing with blocks because of the creative aspect of the server, but not being able to give villagers food makes it impossible for survival players like me to make villager breeders or farms where villagers harvest the crops.
I know on Hermitcraft the have a command block setup that will give every enderman who spawns a "phantom block" to hold so they won't pick up any real ones. They can't place it because it's not real and it vanishes when they are killed. Xsiumavoid has a guide on how to set this up.
I think there is also a way to reduce the damage creepers and other mob explosions do to blocks so they can still hurt players but not break blocks.