A noob's guide to towny

A town is a great way of protecting what you own from devious monsters and adds an extra layer of protection towards potential griefers and mishap.
It also allows you to teleport to the town you own/belong to.
A town is 250p and will cost you 3p per town block per 24 hours to maintain.
It is highly important that you create a Town Vault before proceeding with anything else, after town creation.
This guide will walk you through the process of creating and maintaining one and list a few commands relevant to the section.

Town Creation​
Now, Towny predefines the whole map in 16x16 chunks where one chunk is called a plot. In the server they have been shortened to 10*10.
When you create a town you'll start off with a 10*10 plot will be able to buy more plots as explained later on.

/town new <name> - Creates your new town!
/town set board <message> - Defines the message upon login and entering the town.
/p toggle plotborder - Creates smoke-effects around the plot borders while walking.
/p toggle map - Toggles the Towny map (in chat) to see claimed and unclaimed areas.
/p set mode clear - Clears all toggle modes.
Expanding​
Expanding your town costs 75p per claimed plot, note that the plot MUST be adjacent to one you already own. At the moment you can own a maximum of 10,000 town blocks per resident in your town. Outposts which are town blocks not adjacent to any you own cost 10,000p per plot.

/town claim - expands your town by a 10x10 plot you're standing in.
/town buy bonus <amount> - buys bonus blocks.
/town claim outpost - claims a 10*10 plot not adjacent to an owned town block.
Town Economy​
Once again - as a town costs 1 gold per day to maintain, you need to set up a vault (guide here).
Currently - if you deposit money into the town without a town vault the gold will vanish.
To earn money through your town, you could either tax your members or sell plots. Or both!

/town deposit <amount> - Deposit gold into the town bank.
/town withdraw <amount> - Withdraw gold from the town bank.
/town toggle taxpercent - Toggles whether the taxes are defined with a percentage or a fixed amount.
/town set taxes <amount> - Set a global tax for all members in your town.
/town set plottax/shoptax/embassytax <amount> - Set taxes per plot
/plot fs <price> - Puts a plot up for sale.
/plot nfs - Reverts the above.

Plot Types​
There are six different plot types;
Residential
This is where the members of your town live and build their housing in.
Shop
Are obviously for shops, but are one of the two plots able to be owned if not a member of the town.
Embassy
Is the second plot allowing for outsiders to own, mostly used for other town mayors to attract people via a nice building or a teleporter.
Wilds
A wilds plot allows anyone to build or destroy and should be assigned with care, useful for a town-wide farm for example.
Arena
Turn on PvP and build a large arena for some PvP enjoyment!
Spleef
Is mostly cosmetic, but allows snow for example to be destroyed without custom permissions.
Most of these are merely cosmetic, with appropriate prompts in chat.
While it is recommended to use these it is possible to acquire the same effects with custom town/plot permissions.

Miscellaneous Commands​
These are the most basic uses, feel free to play around with the settings and commands.
There's a minimal risk to screw something up beyond being able to revert it.
If you do get stuck, consult a member of the staff or in the general chat.

/town - General town control.
/plot - General plot commands
/plot set perm - Set custom permissions per plot.
/town set perm - Set custom permissions per town.
/resident ? - General resident commands.
/town spawn - Teleports you to your town.