Towny Minecraft Servers for 1.16
Every Towny 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 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.
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.