Factions Minecraft Servers for 1.16
Every Factions server on the list that runs Minecraft 1.16, ranked by votes this month. Point releases count, so a server reporting 1.16.4 is listed here too.
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Clear filtersClaim land, build a base, expect it to be raided
Factions is the raiding gamemode. You make a faction with friends, claim chunks, fill a base with obsidian and hoppers, and then somebody finds it, breaches the wall with a TNT cannon and takes everything inside. Power is the currency: you lose it when you die, and a faction on negative power can be claimed over by anyone.
Almost every server layers extras on top — custom enchants, envoy drops, king-of-the-hill events, printer mode for building, and a schedule that tells you when the fighting happens. Seasons usually run four to eight weeks, end with a payout, and then the map wipes and everyone starts again from a wooden pickaxe.
Going in solo is rough, because factions rewards organised groups with a rota. Join with people, or join a faction that is recruiting. Read the rules on cannoning, insiding and alt accounts before you build your first base: those three differ wildly between servers and they define what counts as a fair fight.
The Nether Update, and why servers stayed on it
Version 1.16 turned the Nether from a corridor into a place. Crimson and warped forests, soul sand valleys and basalt deltas gave it biomes; piglins, hoglins, striders and zoglins gave it inhabitants you have to think about; and netherite pushed the endgame past diamond for the first time in years.
It also added bastion remnants, the respawn anchor, target blocks, lodestones and a working piglin bartering economy. For servers, 1.16.5 became a landmark release: it is one of the most stable Forge versions ever shipped, an enormous number of modpacks were built on it, and modded communities have never entirely left.
On a plugin server, 1.16 in a listing today often means the oldest client the network lets in through ViaVersion rather than the jar it actually runs. Those are not the same thing, and it is worth asking which one is meant before you change your launcher profile. Either way the world still generates the old way, with a bedrock floor at Y=0 and none of the deepslate or large cave systems that arrived a year later, so diamond hunting follows the depths people learned before Caves & Cliffs.