Towny Minecraft Servers for 1.21
Every Towny server on the list that runs Minecraft 1.21, ranked by votes this month. Point releases count, so a server reporting 1.21.4 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.
What 1.21 added, and why it took servers a while to move
Tricky Trials landed in June 2024, and its centrepiece is the trial chamber: a generated copper-and-tuff dungeon full of trial spawners that stop producing once you clear them. Run one with an ominous bottle active and the vaults pay out better. It also brought the Breeze, the Bogged and the mace, which hits harder the further you fall onto something.
For a server, the crafter mattered more than any of that. Automated crafting had been a modded feature for a decade, and having it in the base game changes what a redstone farm can do without a single plugin. Copper bulbs and the full tuff block set filled out building palettes at the same time.
The 1.21 line kept moving after release — the pale garden and the creaking arrived in 1.21.4, and later point releases added more again. That is worth remembering when you read a listing, because 1.21 can mean anything from 1.21.1 to the newest patch. Most servers run Paper behind ViaVersion and accept a range of clients, so connecting is usually the fastest way to find out.