DonutSMP WikiEconomy
How money and shards work on DonutSMP: money commands, /sell, buy orders, the auction house, shards, /baltop, the 2% transaction tax announced on November 11, 2026, and the trading rules.
Overview
DonutSMP uses two currencies. Money is earned and spent through /sell, the auction house and buy orders [1]. Shards are the server's secondary currency [2].
The server has an official public API. It returns current auction house listings and transactions, and leaderboards that include money, shards, money made on /sell and money spent on /shop [3].
Money commands
The fan-run Donutpedia wiki lists these commands [4]:
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/bal [player] | Shows your balance, or another player's balance [4] |
/pay <player> <amount> | Sends money to another player. The amount cannot exceed your balance [4] |
/baltop [page] | Opens the money leaderboard [4] |
/sell | Opens a chest you drag items into. The items are sold when you close it [4] |
/sellhistory | Shows items you sold on /sell [4] |
/worth [item] | Shows an item's base price [4] |
/order <search> or /orders | Searches the Orders page for an item [4] |
/auction <search> | Opens the auction house with your search [4] |
/shards [player] | Shows how many shards a player has [4] |
/bounty add <player> <amount> | Adds money to a player's bounty, taken from your own balance [4] |
The June 2026 update removed /shop and /sellmulti [5].
Earning money
A SoulFire guide from February 2026 (refreshed in April 2026) names three ways to earn money: selling items with /sell, selling on the auction house (/ah), and filling buy orders with /order or /orders [1]. The guide also describes a sell multiplier that rose from 1.0x to 3.0x as total sales grew [1]. The June 2026 update removed the sell multiplier [5].
According to the fan wiki's money guide, items on the Orders page sell for much less than on the auction house, so players place orders, collect the items and resell them on the auction house [6]. The guide says this works best with cheaper items, because expensive items cost almost as much on orders as on the auction house [6].
A blog post from February 2, 2026, titled "From $0 to $100 million in DonutSMP over the weekend", describes this kind of trading [7]. The author flipped items such as redstone, bonemeal, ominous bottles and blue ice [7]. For example, they bought redstone blocks through orders at $146k a stack and resold them for about $300k [7].
Buy orders (/orders)
Buy orders are used to buy items in bulk [1]. Players who fill an order deliver the items, often several shulker boxes of one item at once [6]. The SoulFire guide says popular items fill quickly, while orders for niche items can sit for hours [1].
Live top order prices for every item are tracked by DonutOrders, a fan-run price tracker that scans /orders.
Auction house (/ah)
The auction house is used to buy and sell individual items [1]. Sellers often lower their prices to undercut each other [7]. The February 2026 blog post states a limit of 25 items listed at once [7]. According to the Fandom wiki, the June 2026 update cut this to 18 Auction House and Orders slots for players without Donut+ [8]. According to the fan wiki, Donut+ subscribers can turn on instant auction house purchases in the settings menu [9].
2% transaction tax
On November 11, 2026, DonutSMP announced a 2% tax on every transaction. It covers /pay, the auction house (/ah) and buy orders (/orders) [10].
In-game tests (/pay right after the update; /ah, /orders and /sell on November 13, 2026) showed who pays it [10]:
| Action | Who pays the 2% | How |
|---|---|---|
/pay | Sender | On top of the amount. The recipient gets the full amount; sending $1,000 cost $1,020 [10] |
/ah purchase | Buyer | Already included in the price buyers see. The seller gets the full listing price [10] |
Placing a /orders buy order | Order placer | On top, when the order is placed. Cancelling the order refunds the tax too [10] |
Selling into orders with /sell | No one | The seller gets the full order price [10] |
| Bounty payout | No one | Bounties are not taxed [10] |
The tax is paid by the side that spends money, not by the side that receives it [10].
The full test results, with balances before and after each step, are on DonutOrders.
Shards
You can check your shards with /shards [4]. Before the June 2026 update, the fan wiki and the SoulFire guide gave every spawner a price of 1,500 shards [2][1]. The fan wiki says older prices ranged from 250 to 1,500 depending on the mob [2]. Shards came from the AFK zone (1 shard per minute) and from kills (10 shards per kill), and Donut+ let players earn them anywhere [1][9].
The June 2026 update ended shard earning from AFKing and kills, and the Shard Shop now opens from the /ah or /orders menu [5]. The Minecraft Forum article says the Shard Shop no longer sells spawners, so spawners are only traded between players [5].
Money leaderboard (/baltop)
According to the fan wiki, /baltop ranks players by the money they currently hold, not by total earnings [11]. The menu shows 45 players per page in a 9 by 5 grid [11]. The official API also provides the money leaderboard [3].
Rules that affect the economy
The server rules, as listed on the fan wiki, include "No IRL Trading", "No Cross-Server Trading", "No Duplicating Items" and "No Macros or Scripts" [12]. The SoulFire guide says real-money trading breaks DonutSMP's terms of service and that players caught doing it get permanent bans on all associated accounts [1].
Related pages
Sources
- DonutSMP and the Real-Money Economy (SoulFire blog, Feb 2026, refreshed Apr 2026) - 15867255-soulfire-website.alexprogrammerde.workers.dev
- Spawner - Donutpedia (fan-run wiki) - donutsmp-wiki.pages.dev
- DonutSMP Public API (official) - api.donutsmp.net
- Commands - Donutpedia (fan-run wiki) - donutsmp-wiki.pages.dev
- DonutSMP Economy After the June Update - Minecraft Forum - minecraftforum.net
- Guide:Making money - Donutpedia (fan-run wiki) - donutsmp-wiki.pages.dev
- From $0 to $100 million in DonutSMP over the weekend (blog post, 2026-02-02) - blog.vjeux.com
- June 2nd update - DonutSMP Wiki (Fandom) - donutsmp.fandom.com
- Donut+ - Donutpedia (fan-run wiki) - donutsmp-wiki.pages.dev
- In-game test of the 2% tax, November 2026 - donutorders.com
- Baltop - Donutpedia (fan-run wiki) - donutsmp-wiki.pages.dev
- Server rules - Donutpedia (fan-run wiki) - donutsmp-wiki.pages.dev