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Meraki SMP is a new geopolitical server with a Towny style world where diplomacy and trade matter more than nonstop fighting. It is launching next week and the whitelist is getting removed.

You can claim land and start a town then grow it into something big. Towns can work together to form nations and make alliances and treaties. You can also join international groups that can affect what happens in the world. Each town can survey for up to four resources and get daily production. There are capture sites to fight over for key resources. Towns can always stay neutral but Siege War and Event War are there if they choose to go to war.

The economy is based on normal play like mining chopping trees and killing mobs. There are also events and contests where players can win money. Trading is player run with shop options and there are no admin shops. Villager trades are disabled.

The overworld uses Terra generation so the landscapes look huge and it feels like a builders paradise. There is also a live map you can view. The server also has helpers to make things less grindy like vein mining and spawner tools that collect drops and XP. Skills improve over time and moving passive mobs is easier. For fun there is brewing with secrets better horses and faster happier ghasts plus chat that connects with Discord.