A few more low priority suggestions:
Chainsaw acting as a lumberjack axe (skill4life's idea) I have ran into the issue of other jobs besides laborers not being able to gather lumber to build with, and the laborer does not have the income to reasonably keep a build leaving players like me to have to buy lumber or buy an axe from other players every time one dies. hopefully this change could help with that.
An item, wallet like the cellphone and light which makes it more difficult to be stolen from and possibly could save a small amount of money from dropping when you die. This could help balance pick poketers and stop people from whining about lost money a little.
Possibly make it so Purchasing food will recharge health so that dieing is not the only way to get back to full hp. Plus, this would make more people buy food instead of just starving to death to save money.
Obviously there is a lot more stuff that is way more important that needs to be done to the server before any of this happens... but for a future update please consider these. Oh and yes, i do feel like a pro for using cookies as bullet points ;)