I'd like to offer two suggestions that do eventually relate to each other:
1) That the skills of Construction from 60 to 90 should be reconsidered.
At Construction 60, there is the ability to build Small Plaster House and Small Wooden House.
The Small Plaster House requires mortar, which requires flux, which is very difficult to obtain until herbal gardens can be made, which requires Construction 90.
The Small Wooden House requires linen rope, which really isn't possible until farming gets going when winter is over. See #2 below.
So without viable construction projects, people are going to continue having to grind ovens to get to 90, using thousands of clay in the process for a lower multiplier server. That's not viable with 1x in the mmo.
2) LiF:YO winter starts are rough. Please allow a better way for admins to change the date. To my knowledge this isn't a thing. It's always rough at every server start to be dealing with the lack of ability to grow things decently.