WesterosLive Guide

A Game of Thrones themed Towny server

Last updated: 2026-07-28 4:38 PM EST.

WesterosLive is Game of Thrones in Minecraft. At its heart is a custom event system: throw a tournament or host a wedding. Any player who joins the server while an event is live spawns right there, and every event is posted automatically to Discord and the wiki. It's a mechanically difficult server — gear wears out fast, there's no enchanting, brewed drinks replace potions, and crops grow slowly — but it avoids the grind-and-conquer culture of other experiences.

Getting started

Connecting

You need a real Minecraft account. Cracked launchers like TLauncher can't get in.
Java Edition: westeros.live. No port.
Bedrock Edition: westeros.live, port 19018. Bedrock can't find the port on its own, so you have to type it.
Any recent Java version works — you don't have to match the server's exactly.

Playing with friends

A mayor or officer invites people with /town add <player>. The invited player does not join straight away — the invite sits waiting until they answer it themselves with /accept <townname> (or turn it down with /deny <townname>). /invite on its own lists every invite currently waiting on you. If a town has opened itself up, you can walk in yourself with /town join <townname>. /tpa and /tpahere get you to each other quickly.

Two things people get wrong here. Names must be spelled exactly as the player or town writes them, capitals included — “not a valid name” almost always means a typo rather than a broken command. And a nation is an alliance of towns, not a bigger town: joining or founding one gives you no extra land. Territory only ever grows the same way, one chunk at a time, with /town claim while standing on the ground you want.

Finding somewhere to build

Spawn is not where you settle. /rtp (or /wild) drops you somewhere random out in the world — run it until you find ground you like, then found your town there. The live map shows every town already standing, so you can see what land is taken before you walk.

Your own town

Stand where you want it and run /town new <name>. That claims the chunk you're standing in and makes you its mayor — it's free.

Grow it with /town claim, which takes the chunk you're standing in, one at a time. Each one costs 1 Silver Stag out of the town bank, so keep it topped up with /town deposit <amount>. Claimed land is yours — nobody outside the town can build on it. Upkeep, plots, outposts and nations: Towns.

Money

The currency is Silver Stags: /balance to check yours and /pay <player> <amount> to send some. The fastest first coins are votes — 1 Silver Stag each time, and /vote gives you the links. After that, a player shop trades for you whether you're online or not. Every cost and every way to earn: Economy.

Everyday commands

/home, /sethome, /delhome — set/teleport to/delete a home. You get 1 home.
/tpa <player>, /tpahere <player>, /tpaccept — request to teleport to/from another player.
/message (/msg) — private message another player.

What's different here

These change how you play from your very first day.

There is no war. You cannot conquer, raid or take another town's land. Nations compete through events, trade and reputation, not conquest.
No enchanting. Enchantment tables don't work and anvils won't apply enchanted books, so gear stays plain. Anvils still repair and rename as normal.
No vanilla potions. Drinking or throwing one does nothing. Brewed drinks are the exception, and the main way to get a buff here.
No villager trading. Villagers and wandering traders won't trade.
No beacons. Beacons can't be placed.
Tools and gear wear out 4x faster. Armour, weapons and tools all take damage faster than normal — keep spares.
Crops grow 3x slower. So does everything else that grows or spreads on its own — saplings, vines, fire, melting ice. Random tick speed is 1 instead of the usual 3.

Your character

Start with the banner — your sigil, flown by your house and shown on every event the server announces for you. Then a house to fly it, a religion, and a culture the mayor picks for the whole town.

/banner — a full banner kit (once a day): a blank banner, a loom, 8 of every dye and all 10 special patterns. Make your sigil, then hold it and run /resident house banner set.
/resident house — your house: name, motto, spouse, heir.
/resident religion set <name> — pick your religion.
/town culture set <name> — the mayor's call, for the whole town.
/town roles assign <player> <role> — mayors hand out titles.

Every culture, faith and title, the advanced banner commands, and the full command list: Your House.

Town events

A mayor or officer can throw a tournament, a feast or a trial by combat with /town event create <type> [delay] <description>. Each runs 20 minutes, and only one runs on the whole server at a time — so check /town event upcoming before you book. Anyone joining while it's live lands straight in it, and the server posts it to Discord and the wiki for you.

All 27 types, the cost and every command: Events.

Once you start playing

A few things that only come up later, so you are not caught out:

A live event pulls you in. While any town's event is running, joining the server — or respawning after a death — drops you at it, whether or not it's your town. See Events.
/back. If logging in dropped you at an event, this puts you back where you logged out. One use.
/end. Drops you somewhere random on the End's main island, clear of the exit portal.
You don't need everyone asleep. Once 25% of the players online are in bed, the night skips to morning — so a town turning in together is enough. Sleeping also keeps phantoms away.
Cobblestone generators don't work. Lava and water won't make cobble or stone — mine it the normal way. Obsidian still forms, so nether portals are fine.
The End strips chests. Anything you take out of a chest or barrel there comes out disenchanted, and potions come out as empty bottles — including chests you placed there yourself.