FREQUENTLY ASKED

It reads the DonutSMP order screens for around nine hundred tradeable items, runs every vanilla crafting recipe against those prices, and reports which crafts currently pay more than their ingredients cost. It is an analysis tool: it tells you what to look at, you do the trading.

No, and it cannot. It never buys, sells, places or cancels an order, never moves an item, never clicks anything in game. The only thing it sends to the server is the /orders command to read a screen. Everything after that is you, by hand.

Reading public market data and doing arithmetic on it is not something the server forbids. The account that collects the data runs with the server owners’ permission, asked for and granted in their Discord. Nothing here automates play.

No. There is no account, no login and no payment.

From the same screen you see when you type /orders iron_ingot in game. A client reads that screen, one item at a time, and sends what it read here. There is no private API and no insider feed.

Each item carries its own age, because they are scanned one at a time rather than all at once. Under five minutes shows as live, under thirty as ageing, and anything older as stale. See the lesson on freshness.

Because the search genuinely failed. Asking the server for book returns enchanted and written books — it matches enchantment text — so the plain item never appears. Rather than record that as zero demand, which would read as “nobody is buying books”, the site says it has no reading.

No. It shows the top standing order as observed at each scan. Nobody necessarily traded at those prices — it is what people were offering to pay, not what changed hands.

Because ROI is efficiency, not size. Turning $10 into $60 is 500% and it is five dollars. Use executable profit to judge whether a trade is worth doing and ROI to choose between ones you can afford — the lesson covers it.

No. Capital is the cost of the entire profitable run. Every meta page has a planner that costs out a smaller number of crafts, and the first crafts in a run are the most profitable ones.

No, and this one matters. Confidence scores the evidence behind the figure — book depth, price stability, data age, whether the profit rests on a single order. It is not a probability and it never changes the money.

Usually because the best price has almost nothing behind it. A price of $11,100 backed by 1,971 units out of 2.4 million is one player’s order, not a market — and if they cancel, the profit was never there.

In game, type /orders <item>, look at the highest standing order, and place yours above it so sellers reach you first. Then wait — other players deliver into your order.

Somebody has to decide your price is worth selling to. Thinly traded items can sit for hours. That is a real cost: money in an unfilled order is money you cannot use, which is why starting small is worth more than starting optimally.

That the recipe works in Minecraft’s own autocrafter block. It is about the crafting step being automatable in game. It does not mean DonutFlipper trades for you.

Yes. Prices move between a scan and your order, an ingredient order can fill at a worse average than expected, and the buyer you were counting on can cancel. Everything here is a snapshot of a market that does not wait for you.