You start on an island with a tree and a chest. Everything after that you build. Farm the wheat for tokens, run a cobble generator for coins, buy spawners and stack them, and upgrade five bound tools that level up by being used.
Everything is bound to you: the Harvester Hoe, the sword, the pickaxe, the axe and the shovel cannot be dropped, traded or lost. They start as wood and end as netherite, and the only thing that moves them along is using them.
The farm: cut wheat at spawn or on your island and it comes back ripe. The generator: lava and water make cobble, and the tier upgrade decides what else. The spawners: a chicken spawner earns the pig one, and stacked spawners run faster. The shop: prices move with what the whole server buys and sells.
Tokens come out of the work itself and buy the upgrades on your tools. Coins come from selling, and buy the spawners and the island.