Suggestion:
In the next world, we (by which I mean, those interested parties), build a city as close to the RoB as possible, with careful attention paid to matters of security.
Function:
1) Welcoming home for new players to move in to initially.
2) A place to locate a major trading market, designated warehouses (walls where you keep the key), and even a bank? (down in a maze in a mine?)
3) A spot to have a 'hall of chieftans'. Get chiefs of the major friendly villages/towns of the world to meet there, nut out some kind of political system (an alliance? a shared legal code? an empire?? Democratic elections?)