Minecraft plugin Towny

🔌 About Towny Advanced

Towny Advanced is a long‑running Minecraft plugin that provides town and nation systems for servers: players can create and manage towns, claim townblocks (land), and participate in economy and governance mechanics. The project is developed and maintained under the TownyAdvanced organization with LlmDl as lead developer.

🎯 Purpose

Towny centralizes community-driven world management: it gives players the tools to form towns and nations, assign roles and memberships, control land ownership and interactions, and manage simple economy settings such as town taxes and balances. It is intended for servers that want structured player settlements and persistent land ownership.

⚙️ Features

• Player-managed towns and nations with membership and leadership roles.
• Land claiming via townblocks (town-owned land units).
• Resident and town administration features (roles, joining/leaving towns).
• Basic economy integrations (town balances and taxes) and hooks for economy add-ons.
• An API and add-on ecosystem (multiple companion plugins and integrations exist).
• Maintained documentation and a public issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Survival and SMP servers that want structured towns and community governance.
• Servers that require land claiming and group-based world control.
• Administrators who plan to extend functionality using Towny add-ons or the Towny API.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Players form a town, claim adjacent townblocks, set town taxes, and manage membership.
• Multiple towns form a nation and coordinate diplomacy or trade via add-ons.
• Server owners use Towny API to build custom GUI plugins or map integrations.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Obtain the official Towny build (release or pre-release) and place the plugin JAR into your server's plugins/ directory.
• Restart the server and verify Towny loads in the server console.

📦 Dependencies

• Towny is distributed as a Bukkit/Paper-style plugin; no additional required plugin dependencies are listed by default. Some optional integrations and add-ons exist and may provide extra features.

🧠 Technical Notes

• As of the Towny 0.102.0.0 series the plugin requires Paper, Folia or Purpur; CraftBukkit and Spigot are no longer supported for those releases.
• Official supported Minecraft versions include 1.19., 1.20., and 1.21.*; the project also maintains legacy builds for older Minecraft series when available.
• Towny is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
• The project provides a public source repository, a wiki/documentation site, and an issue tracker for reporting bugs and requesting features.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need persistent player-run settlements, land-claiming mechanics, and an extensible API for building Towny add-ons, Towny Advanced provides a mature foundation and a maintained ecosystem of companion plugins.