Making Money on DonutSMP with SoulFire's Node Scripting

DonutSMP and the Real-Money Economy

DonutSMP is currently the largest Minecraft server in the world, regularly hitting 30,000+ concurrent players and peaking above 60,000. It's a hardcore survival server with PvP, raiding, and a surprisingly deep player-driven economy. Die once, and you're banned for two days.

What makes DonutSMP interesting from an automation perspective is that its economy has real monetary value. Players buy and sell in-game currency on third-party marketplaces at roughly $0.03-0.04 per million. That might sound tiny, but when you're generating billions per day across multiple bots, the numbers add up fast.

How the Economy Works

DonutSMP runs on two currencies, three trading systems, and a sell multiplier that turns patient players into money printers.

Currencies

Trading Systems

The Sell Multiplier

This is the single most important mechanic for money generation. Your personal sell multiplier starts at 1.0x and climbs to 3.0x as you accumulate total sales. At max multiplier, you can order items cheaply through /orders and flip them via /sell for triple the base price. It's essentially infinite margin once you've ground your multiplier high enough.

Tools like DonutCalc help plan the grind to 3.0x. The DonutSMP Wiki has the full breakdown of milestones.

Money-Making Methods That Scale with Bots

Not every farming method benefits from automation. Here are the ones that do, ordered by how well they pair with SoulFire.

The Earnings Calculator

Play with the numbers below to get a rough idea of what different setups could generate. Adjust the bot count, farming method, and current market rate.

How SoulFire's Node Scripting Makes This Possible

SoulFire isn't a simple autoclicker. It runs actual Minecraft client code built on Fabric, so the server can't distinguish it from a real player by protocol alone. But the real power is in the visual node scripting system, which lets you build complex automation without writing a single line of code.

What the Scripting System Can Do

The node editor gives you 179+ nodes across categories like bot control, inventory management, chat interaction, world queries, and even external API calls. You connect them visually, like wiring up a circuit.

Here's what matters for DonutSMP farming:

Example: AFK Shard Farmer Script

A basic shard farming setup only needs a handful of nodes:

Example: Spawner Farm Operator

This one's more involved. The bot needs to stand near the farm, periodically open collection chests, grab items, and sell them.

On Interval (every 5 min)
  → Get Position (verify bot is at farm)
  → Branch (at farm?)
    → Yes: Open Inventory → Click Slot (collect items) → Close Inventory
           → Wait (1s) → Send Chat ("/sell all")
    → No: Pathfind To (farm coordinates)
           → loop back to collect step

On Damage
  → Get Health → Compare (< 8?)
    → Yes: Use Item (golden apple) → select food slot first
    → No: continue

On Death
  → Discord Webhook ("Bot died, waiting for respawn ban")

Example: Market-Aware AH Flipper

This is the most advanced setup, combining external API calls with in-game actions:

On Interval (every 30s)
  → Web Fetch (donut.auction API for current prices)
  → Parse JSON (extract item prices into variables)
  → Send Chat ("/ah") → parse results from chat
  → For Each (listed item)
    → Compare (listed price < market price * 0.7?)
      → Yes: buy the item
      → No: skip
  → Web Fetch (log purchase to external tracker)

The Web Fetch node supports GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE with full header and body control. You can integrate with any external API, whether that's a price tracker, a Discord bot, or your own dashboard.

Scaling Up

Running one bot is a proof of concept. Running 10+ is where things get interesting. A few considerations for scaling:

Multi-Account Management

SoulFire is designed to run many bots simultaneously from a single instance. Each bot runs its own script independently. You can assign different scripts to different bots, so some farm shards while others operate spawner farms.

Proxy Rotation

DonutSMP tracks IPs and can ban "associated accounts." Running all your bots from one IP is a quick way to lose everything. SoulFire supports SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies natively, so you can route each bot through a different residential proxy.

The Death Problem

Hardcore mode means any death results in a 2-day ban. For AFK shard farming this isn't a huge concern since the AFK zone is relatively safe. But for bots operating in the overworld near farms, other players can and will kill them for loot. Your scripts need solid damage detection and escape logic, or you accept the occasional 2-day downtime per bot.

Risk Assessment

Third-Party Market Landscape

For context, here's where DonutSMP currency and items trade hands outside the server. These marketplaces operate in a gray area and listings change constantly.

Eldorado also lists boosting services where sellers will AFK farm, build bases, or dig for you. That's essentially what you'd be automating with SoulFire, but doing it yourself instead of paying someone.

The market supports the idea that there's real demand here. People pay for in-game currency and services, and the supply side is where bots fit in.

Getting Started

If you want to experiment with this, start small. One bot, AFK shard farming, no real-money trading. Get comfortable with the node scripting system, understand how DonutSMP's mechanics work firsthand, and build up from there.

The SoulFire scripting documentation covers the full node reference, and the examples page has starter workflows you can adapt. For DonutSMP-specific economy data, donut.auction and donutsmpstats.net are the best live resources.