Towny Server List

Towny turns a survival world into property. You start with a pickaxe and open wilderness, and the moment you can afford it you found a town, which claims the chunk you are standing in and writes your name on it. Everything after that is expansion: buy the chunk next door, invite residents, set plots aside for shops and farms, and hold the border you drew on the map.

What separates Towny from plain survival is that land carries rules. Inside a claim nobody else can break a block, open a chest or, on most setups, hit you, and that protection is what turns a pile of chunks into somewhere people want to live. Towns collect tax from residents, the bank pays the daily upkeep, and the mayor hands out plot permissions the way a landlord does. Nations sit one level up: several towns under a capital, sharing chat, allied borders and, where the server enables it, wars in which claims genuinely change hands.

A good Towny server is one where that economy actually closes. Claims priced so a new player can found something in an evening, upkeep low enough that a five-plot town survives a quiet week, a market busy enough that shop plots earn their keep, and enough pruning that the map is not solid with abandoned single-chunk claims. The servers at the top of this register are there because their residents keep voting for them.