Oke so titles and text colors will return but not items? That sounds good. If players choose items then it would mostly be the best item, People would choose s7 over s6 etc.
I think that flying should still be a thing but fly speed 2-3 is very op and annoying also if you try to hit someone that is flying with it you only get blank hitmarkers. So remove flyspeed 2-3 instead of flying.
Yea villagers makes most money. But it requires a lot of money and time to defend your base. So the best and at the same time the easiest would be cactus