GLOSSARY
Every term on this site, said plainly first and exactly underneath. The exact wording is the same text the tooltips use, so nothing here can drift away from the interface.
18 terms
- Order
A standing request to buy something. You say what you want, how many, and what you pay for each — then wait for another player to sell into it.
ExampleI want 10,000 iron ingots and I will pay $500 each.
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A standing buy order on DonutSMP. The /orders command shows the demand side only: what people are asking to buy, and at what price. There is no supply book to read.
- ROI
How hard your money works: profit divided by what you put in. It says nothing about how big the trade is.
ExamplePut in $900, make $300 profit → 33% ROI.
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Profit as a share of the capital the run needs. A big return on a tiny stake is still a tiny profit.
- Profit / craft
What one single craft earns. Good for understanding the recipe, useless for judging how big the opportunity is.
ExampleNine ingots at $100 make one block that sells for $1,200 → $300 on that craft.
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What one craft clears after its ingredients, at the prices currently on the board.
- Executable profit
How much this trade can actually make right now, given how few items are really on offer at the good prices. Not the best price multiplied out.
ExampleThe top order pays $500 but only for 1,000 units. The next 20,000 pay $490. The real total walks down that list instead of pretending $500 goes on forever.
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What the whole run would clear, walked level by level down the real order book until it stops being worth doing. Never the top price multiplied out.
- Capital
What the whole run would cost up front. It is not a minimum — you can do a smaller run, and the planner will cost that out for you.
ExampleA run listed at $500M for 500 crafts is one you could also do five of.
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What you would have to put in up front for the full run.
- Max crafts
How many crafts stay worth doing before the cheap ingredients or the buyers run out. The market can change before you get that far.
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How many times the run stays worth doing before the cheap ingredients or the standing demand run out.
- Confidence
How much evidence stands behind the profit figure — how deep the order book is, how steady the price has been, how fresh the reading is. It is not a probability, and it never changes the money.
ExampleA large profit with low confidence is a reason to look closer, not to hurry.
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How far the evidence supports the figure: order-book depth, how steady the price has been, and how old the data is.
- Top standing order
The best price anyone is currently offering to buy this at. If you already hold the item, that is roughly what you get per unit.
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The highest price anyone currently has a standing order at. Sell into it and this is what you are paid.
- Price to take #1
What you would have to offer to reach the front of the queue, so sellers come to you first. Today that is one dollar above the best current order.
ExampleBest order pays $100 → you offer $101.
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The smallest order price that puts you ahead of the current top standing order, so sellers reach you first.
- Standing demand
How many units people want to buy in total, across every price. A huge number can still mislead if nearly all of it sits at prices nobody would sell at.
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How many units of this item people currently have standing orders for, across every price level.
- Price levels
How many different prices currently have orders behind them. One level is a single buyer; several tell you more about what the market really looks like.
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How many distinct prices currently have standing orders behind them. One level is a single buyer; many levels is a market.
- Units at the top
How many items are already queued at the best price. Offer more and you step in front of all of them.
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How many units are already queued at the top price. That is the volume you would be stepping in front of.
- Freshness
How long ago the scanner last read this market. Under five minutes is live, under thirty is ageing, beyond that the prices may simply be gone.
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How long ago the scanner last read this item’s order screen. Under five minutes counts as live, under thirty as ageing.
- Movement
How the top order price has changed across the history we hold. Context about the past, not a forecast.
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How the top standing order has changed between the oldest and newest observation we hold. Not a fixed 24 hours -- the window is stated with the figure.
- Observations
How many times the scanner has read this market. Nothing between two readings is filled in or guessed.
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Each observation is one scan of this item’s order screen. Nothing here is interpolated or back-filled.
- Consistency
Of the times we looked, how often this was really a trade — not just once, when we happened to catch it.
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Of the times we looked, how often this was really a trade: a book on the market, at a price that covers the ingredients. Measured across up to seven days and across every market the recipe touches, since the worst of them is the one that stops you.
- Sustained rate
How fast this market has actually moved. A ceiling on what is possible, not an income to expect.
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How fast this market has actually moved, in crafts per hour. A ceiling, not an income: the flow measured is the whole order book, while the trade may only be profitable into the top of it.
- Output demand
How many people are waiting to buy the thing you would be making.
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Units of standing demand behind the output — who is waiting to buy what you make.