There is no plugin called Towny in Hytale. There is a territory system that does the same job under different words, so this page maps the vocabulary across, term by term, including the places the analogy breaks.
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If you have run a town on a Minecraft server, you already understand this system. It is called Endless Guilds and it uses different words for most of the same things.
The unit that owns land and has members. Founding one costs coin and requires a little progression first, so towns are founded by players who intend to stay rather than by anyone who logged in an hour ago.
Differs A guild is a combat and progression unit as well as a landholder: it levels, banks and carries perks that buff its members.
Ranked membership with permissions attached. The leader controls claims, the bank and whether the guild goes to war.
The unit of territory. Claim capacity rises with guild level and with roster size, so a growing town genuinely expands rather than hitting a flat wall.
Differs A guildless player still holds a personal claim allowance, so protection does not require joining anything.
Multiple towns under one banner. Here that structure is won rather than agreed: a conquest war takes a vassal, and holding vassals grants sovereignty that raises the conqueror's own claim capacity.
Differs Vassalage is the outcome of a fight, not a diplomatic invite. There is no way to peacefully federate into a nation.
A share of a vassal's banked income paid up to its conqueror, configurable by the server and tuned per conquest.
Shared funds the guild draws on. Part of the founding cost is seeded straight into it, so a new guild is not starting from nothing.
Declared, scheduled fights over guild cores rather than a permanent open season. Preparation, staging, timed innings and a cooldown all run on a fixed clock.
Differs Whether war can be declared at all depends on the server's Peaceful Era setting, so a server can guarantee weeks where nothing you built can be attacked.
The part of a guild's holdings that is safe by rule. Each guild level grants one, and a vault chunk cannot be taken in a war no matter how the war goes.
Differs This is a stronger guarantee than most Towny setups give: losing badly does not mean losing everything.
Grief protection
Inside a claim, players outside the guild that holds it cannot build or break. That is the protection, and it applies from the moment the cell is claimed rather than after an admin approves anything.
A player with no guild still gets a personal claim allowance, which matters more than it sounds: on most survival servers the answer to griefing is "join a group or lose your house", and here it is not. Founding a guild raises the ceiling rather than unlocking the floor.
Land only changes hands through a declared war, and even then vault chunks are exempt at every guild level. A server can also close wars entirely for stretches of the calendar through its Peaceful Era setting, which is the closest thing to a build-only mode the system has.
The exact numbers behind all of this, claim capacity per guild level, the war clock, tribute rates and the sovereignty bonus, are in the guilds and kingdoms guide.
Where to play
The official server runs the full territory system, kingdoms, wars and vassals included, at play.endlessleveling.net:9000. If you would rather build on a quieter ruleset first, the survival and SMP guide compares what each server on the roster allows, and the mods guide covers installing the claim system on a server of your own.
Not by that name, and not as a port of the Minecraft plugin. The equivalent is Endless Guilds: guilds claim land in cells, hold shared banks, level up, and can take other guilds as vassals through conquest. Almost every Towny concept has a direct counterpart, with the significant difference that nations are conquered rather than formed by agreement.
Claims are counted in cells. A player with no guild gets a flat personal allowance, and a guild's capacity scales with its level and with how many members it carries, plus sovereignty bonuses for any vassals it holds. Claimed land blocks building and breaking by outsiders.
Claim the land it stands on. A personal claim is available without joining a guild, so protection is not gated behind a social step. For anything larger, found a guild: claim capacity grows with guild level and roster, and each guild level also adds a vault chunk that cannot be taken even by a winning attacker in a war.
Only through a declared war, only while the server's Peaceful Era allows wars at all, and never your vault chunks. Outside of a war, claimed cells cannot be built in or broken by anyone outside the guild that holds them. There is no mechanic for quietly stealing land from a guild that is offline.
Found a guild. It costs coin, part of which is seeded straight back into the new guild's bank, and requires a small amount of prestige on the founding character so that towns are founded deliberately. From there you claim cells, invite members, and the guild's claim capacity grows as it levels.
They are one system, not three. A guild is the group; claiming land makes it a territory holder in the way Factions means it; winning conquest wars and taking vassals is what makes it a kingdom. Nothing extra needs installing to move between those stages.
On any server running Endless Guilds. It is a premium addon in the suite, so a given server may or may not have it: the official server does, and allied servers vary. Server owners can install it alongside the free core.
Found a guild, claim territory, take vassals and fight sieges and conquest wars.
How survival and SMP rulesets work with the suite, and which server suits which playstyle.
Connect to the official server, pick a race and class, and get your first levels.
The honest answer on Hytale as an MMO, and the systems that make a server play like one.
What each mod in the suite adds, free versus premium, and how to install them.
Gate tiers E to S, 18 built-in raid packs, scaling bosses and how loot is shared.
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