Towny Minecraft Servers for 1.12
Every Towny server on the list that runs Minecraft 1.12, ranked by votes this month. Point releases count, so a server reporting 1.12.4 is listed here too.
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Clear filtersSurvival with borders, taxes and neighbours
Towny is survival with local government. You found a town, claim chunks with town blocks, invite residents, set plot permissions and pay upkeep out of the town bank every day. Towns join nations, nations trade or declare war, and the map slowly fills with borders that were negotiated rather than drawn by a plugin.
It plays slower than factions and is much friendlier to people who mostly want to build. Grief is handled by permissions rather than by fighting, and most conflict is about land and taxes. Outposts, farm plots and embassy plots let a decent-sized town run a real internal economy without ever leaving its own walls.
Joining an existing town skips the hardest part, which is daily upkeep on an empty treasury. Ask what happens when a town falls — some servers unclaim the land and let it go wild, others keep the buildings standing — and check the tax rate before you accept a residency invitation.
1.12.2 is still the default for modded, and here is why
Version 1.12 arrived in 2017 with concrete, glazed terracotta, parrots, the recipe book and advancements replacing the old achievement list. It is remembered for none of that. It is remembered because 1.13 followed it with the flattening, which removed numeric block IDs and rewrote how the game stores world data.
That break stranded an enormous amount of work. Forge mods written for 1.12.2 could not be ported cheaply, so the packs people had spent years assembling stayed where they were, and 1.12.2 became the most played modded version in the game's history. Large packs and their servers are still running on it today.
If you are joining a 1.12 server, expect Forge, expect a launcher profile pinned to 1.12.2, and expect an older feel: no netherite, no raids, no bees, and terrain that stops at Y=0. In exchange you get a mod ecosystem nothing since has quite matched for sheer size. The final patch landed in September 2017 and the version has not moved since, which is exactly why pack authors trust it — a modlist assembled today behaves the same as one assembled five years ago.