💸Upkeep, Taxes & Debt

Managing a town is way easier than you think.

Town Upkeep Costs

Town upkeep costs play a big part in the economy on the server, and is required to keep everything balanced - it gives you a good reason to keep grinding and making money. Your town will have to pay $50 per claimed plot (same as townblock, or more commonly known as claim) daily. This value is further amplified if your town has an outpost, which adds $25 to the base value.

Overclaim Penalty

Having more claimed plots than your town's limit will incur an overclaim penalty. Your town will have to pay an additional $200 per overclaimed plot on top of the daily upkeep.

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Town Taxes

Most towns have taxes to help the mayor pay for their town's upkeep - you can view a town's taxes by using /t [Town Name] or /towny prices in-game. When the money is taken from your balance, it is put directly into the Town Bank.

Town Taxes are taken daily at 12 PM GMT +8 from the Town Bank.

As the mayor of the town, you can choose how much you want to tax your residents using /t set taxes [Amount], or you can use /t toggle taxpercent to set tax to be a percentage of your resident's balance.

Using percentage tax may discourage players from joining your town, as players with a high balance may be excessively taxed.

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Bankruptcy and Ruined Towns

To prevent your town from going bankrupt, you must have enough money in your town's bank to pay your town's upkeep each day. If you cannot pay this, your town will enter a bankrupt state and the bank will go into the negatives. In this state, you will not be able to make any adjustments to your town until you put enough money in the bank to reach a positive balance again.

Your town's debt cap (how far negative the balance can go) is the combined price of all your claimed chunks, outposts and plots - it is limited to a maximum of $100 000.