Towns & Nations

Anyone in Vesmír is able to start their own town. With little exceptions, towns can be founded anywhere in Vesmír. Some exceptions include at or near communal areas like spawn areas, NPC domains, and a few places of interest. Nations are meant for co-operation between towns and to able wider territorial control

The server uses TownyAdvanced Plugin to simulate these Town and Nation systems, so if you have used the system before, you should be pretty familiar with the systems on the server

Starting a new town, your town will be level 1 and classified as a Farm. To level up your town, you need to recruit new residents to your town. Each level up lets towns spread further and collect more resources.

Townblocks & Upkeep

Townblock refers to the chunks your town or any other town has claimed. Players are unable to build in the wilderness, and your townblocks are the only areas where you can build, so Townblocks are particularly valuable.

As you level up your town by recruiting new residents, your town's maximum amount of townblocks increases.  Every town pays upkeep every 24 hours. The amount of upkeep is 10 copper coins for every townblock the town has claimed. This upkeep is taken from your town's vault automatically.

Taxes

To collect money for the upkeep, you can collect taxes from your residents.  You can set up both basic tax that all your residents will pay, and plot tax. You are able to convert some of your town's townblocks into sellable plots. Then any resident can claim the plot and will pay plot tax for every day they own the plot. If the resident cannot pay, the plot reverts back into a normal townblock. 

Townblock limit is set so, that every resident can have their own plot, and the common areas will still grow with every level up. For example, Manor has a maximum of 8 Townblocks, and can have max of 4 residents, so if every resident has their own plot, there will be 4 townblocks of common area, but when the town grows to a Hamlet, there can be a maximum of 9 residents, and so in a similar situation, the common area will be  7 townblocks

Rare Resources

Rare resources are valuable assets for towns. Rare resources are blocks and items that are either extremely hard or impossible to collect in any other way than by towns generating them. Rare resources include such things as Iron, Gold, Coal, Amethysts, and Obsidian.

Nations are collaborations between towns. Any Town can start their own nation if they have the coin to pay the nation starting fee. The mayor who starts the nation will become the king of the nation, and the mayor's town will become the capital.

The new king receives some new powers. They can invite other towns to join the new nation, collect taxes  from those towns and declare war on other nations (read more on the War page). 

The king also receives some new responsibilities, such as paying nationwide upkeep, setting the taxation for towns in the nation and managing the nation's army.

Benefits for towns

Towns get some benefits from being part of a town. Being part of a nation raises your townblock limit and let's you build outposts. The amount of extra townblocks and outposts depend on the size of the nation. Nation must include at least 2 towns before the towns are able to build outposts.

Outposts

Outposts are satellites of your town. Outposts are useful for war and exploration as they can be used as a place to camp outside your own town.  Outposts are more expensive to claim than townblocks connected to your maintown. Higher nation-level gives the member towns higher outpost limits.