DonutSMP WikiCrafting and Smelting for Profit
Turning cheap items into valuable ones on DonutSMP: crafting, smelting, stonecutting, bartering and more, with live profit pages.
How it works
Processing means getting a cheap item, turning it into something buy orders pay more for, and selling the result. On DonutSMP, what /sell pays for an item is the price of the buy orders for that item, and "anything nobody buys comes back to your inventory" [1]. The fan price tracker DonutOrders sums up the approach as "Buy low, sell to orders". Its money guides "show which crafts, smelting and trades turn cheap items into ones with high buy orders" [1].
A method needs more than a gap between two prices:
- Demand for the output. "Each order only wants so many" [1].
- Supply of the input. If you buy ingredients through
/orders, you are limited by how fast they get delivered into the buy orders. DonutOrders' crafting and ore pages show how many you can make or buy per hour from that delivery rate [2][3]. - Costs. These include fuel for smelting and the 2% tax described below [4][5].
The June 2026 update removed the sell multiplier [6]. See Economy for the commands.
The 2% tax
On November 11, 2026, DonutSMP announced a 2% tax on every transaction. DonutOrders tested it in game [5]:
- When you buy ingredients with a buy order, you pay the 2% on top when you place the order. You get it back if you cancel.
- When you buy on the auction house, the 2% is already included in the price you see.
- When you sell the finished items with
/sell, you pay nothing.
DonutOrders warns that "a trade with only a couple of percent of margin can stop being worth it once 2% goes out on the way", and advises: "Do the maths on crafts and smelting" [5].
Live calculators
DonutOrders has a calculator page for each method, and "every answer is recalculated from live /orders prices" [7]. An item's price is "the best buy order that still wants 10 or more", and its demand is "how many are still wanted at 85% of that price or more" [2]. Check the pages for current numbers. The hub page is DonutSMP money guides [7].
| Method | What the page compares | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Crafting | Ingredients bought through /orders vs. the result sold into /orders [2] | Most profitable crafts |
| Smelting | Input plus fuel vs. the smelted item [4] | Most profitable item to smelt |
| Ores | Ore plus fuel vs. the smelted output [3] | Best ores to smelt |
| Stonecutting | Ingredients vs. the stonecutter output [8] | Most profitable stonecutter recipes |
| Blocks, ingots, nuggets | One form vs. another, in both directions [9] | Blocks, ingots or nuggets |
| Composting | Cost per bone meal vs. profit per bone meal [10] | Composting |
| Concrete | Concrete powder vs. concrete [11] | Concrete powder to concrete |
| Copper | Copper vs. its oxidized and waxed forms [12] | Copper oxidation and waxing |
| Stripped logs | Logs vs. stripped logs [13] | Stripped logs |
| Piglin bartering | A gold ingot vs. the average value of one trade [14] | Piglin bartering |
Crafting
The DonutOrders crafting page assumes "Ingredients bought through /orders, the result sold into /orders" [2]. It shows how many you can make an hour from what gets delivered into the ingredients' buy orders. Its daily profit is capped by what one day of ingredients or the demand allows, whichever is less. "Fuel not included" [2].
A February 2, 2026 blog post, from before the June update, describes crafting for profit [15]:
- The author crafted bone meal from bones (1 to 3) and bone blocks (1 to 9). They called the work "constantly buying, crafting, selling to the auction house" and "pretty labor intensive".
- To make dispensers, they bought the ingredients (cobblestone, logs for sticks, redstone, string) in bulk. Buying all the ingredients "took a bunch of time". They ended up "buying entire shulker boxes of dispensers" from another player and flipping them instead.
The fan-run Donutpedia wiki says observers, repeaters, comparators, targets, chests and hoppers "are high in demand" [16].
Rules on automated crafting
Under "Macros/scripts to influence Economy / Farming / PVP", the official rules ban macros that "Automate crafting and inventory management" [17]. Under "Crafting modifications", the rules also list [17]:
- "Automatically crafting harvested resources into blocks (e.g., ingots → blocks)."
- "Crafting large quantities of items with a single action."
- "Triggering crafting whenever required materials are present."
See Rules.
Smelting
The DonutOrders smelting page includes fuel in the cost of each smelt, using the cheapest fuel at the moment [4]. It assumes "A furnace smelts 360 items an hour, a blast furnace (ores) or smoker (food) 720" [4]. It also estimates how many furnaces the ingredients that get sold and the demand can keep busy [4].
The ore page's "Ore sold / hour" column shows "how fast the ore itself gets delivered into buy orders", which is how much you can realistically buy; "past that, more furnaces sit idle" [3].
DonutOrders lists a kelp farm plus furnaces as a money farm, since dried kelp blocks "fuel themselves" [18]. According to the February 2026 blog post, DonutSMP has "a custom alteration that makes hoppers way faster and push 4 items at a time", so "none of the off the shelves farmed worked anymore" [15].
Stonecutting
The stonecutter page assumes ingredients are bought through /orders and the result is sold into /orders, with fuel not included [8]. Outputs listed on the page include slabs, stairs and walls [8].
Blocks, ingots and nuggets
The DonutOrders conversion page lists both directions for each pair of forms, with cost, sale price and profit [9].
Its farm guide gives gold as an example: "9 nuggets make an ingot and 9 ingots make a block", so "Compare 81 nuggets at the nugget price with one block before you craft" [18]. See gold nugget, gold ingot and gold block.
In the February 2026 blog post, the author bought cheaper redstone blocks and resold them as redstone dust [15].
Crafting modifications that automatically craft harvested resources into blocks, such as ingots into blocks, are banned [17].
Composting
The DonutOrders composting page lists each compostable item with its price, its layer chance, the cost per bone meal and the profit per bone meal, compared with the bone meal price [10].
Concrete
According to DonutOrders, concrete powder "turns into concrete the moment it touches water". You can place it in water or mine it from a water column, with "no cost but the pickaxe" [11]. The page's "Sold / hour" column shows "how fast the concrete gets delivered into buy orders" [11].
Copper oxidation and waxing
According to DonutOrders, copper "oxidises by itself – no cost, but it takes time". Each of the three stages "takes a random while (roughly an hour or more on average)", so "fully oxidised copper needs several hours" [12]. Waxing uses one honeycomb per block and stops further oxidation, and the page's waxed costs include the honeycomb [12].
Stripped logs
"Stripping is a right-click with any axe on a placed log or wood block, then mine it back", and "the only cost is axe durability" [13]. The page's "Sold / hour" column shows how fast the stripped block gets delivered into buy orders [13].
Filling buckets
Donutpedia says "Buckets of lava and water sell for more than the bucket itself". It suggests using /rtp to reach the Nether, "where there is an abundance of lava" [16].
Piglin bartering
The DonutOrders bartering page compares a gold ingot with the average value of one trade, worked out from each item's chance, average amount and order price [14].
The page's notes [14]:
- "Soul Speed books/boots and Fire Resistance potions are not counted", because they have no plain
/ordersprice, so the real value is slightly higher. - "Each piglin takes about 6 seconds per gold ingot", so a bartering farm needs many piglins.
- "items with little demand (like blackstone) are worth less in bulk."
Related pages
- Economy: money commands, buy orders, the auction house and the tax
- Making money FAQ
- Items and prices FAQ
- Rules
Related pages
Sources
- How /orders works on DonutSMP: buy orders and /sell - DonutOrders (November 12, 2026) - donutorders.com
- Most Profitable Crafts on DonutSMP (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
- Best Ores to Smelt on DonutSMP (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
- Most Profitable Things to Smelt on DonutSMP (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
- DonutSMP 2% tax: what it means for /pay, /orders and /ah - DonutOrders in-game test (November 12, 2026, updated November 13, 2026) - donutorders.com
- DonutSMP Economy After the June Update - Minecraft Forum - minecraftforum.net
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- Should You Craft Blocks or Nuggets on DonutSMP? (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
- Is Composting Profitable on DonutSMP? (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
- Is Making Concrete Profitable on DonutSMP? (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
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- Is Stripping Logs Profitable on DonutSMP? (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
- Is Piglin Bartering Profitable on DonutSMP? (live) - DonutOrders - donutorders.com
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- The best money farms on DonutSMP right now - DonutOrders (November 11, 2026, updated November 12, 2026) - donutorders.com