DonutSMP has no shop and no auction sniping. It has standing orders: a public list of people saying what they want to buy and what they will pay for it.
“I want 10,000 iron ingots. I pay $500 each.”
That order sits there until somebody sells iron into it, or until the player cancels it.
The thing that surprises people
You do not buy from a shop. You place an order and wait. Another player decides your price is worth selling to, and delivers. That is the whole mechanic, and it runs in both directions:
- Youplace an order for 10,000 iron at $500 each.
- Someonehas iron, sees your price is the best on the board, sells.
- Youreceive the iron. They receive the money.
And when you are the one holding goods, you are on the other side of somebody else’s order — you deliver into it and take their money.
Seeing the board
In game, /orders iron_ingot shows every standing order for that item, best price first. That screen is the only thing this site reads. There is no supply list to look at — orders show demand only, which is why everything here is phrased as what people will pay rather than what things cost.
Why being first matters
A seller picks the highest order, because it pays most. So the order that fills is the one at the top. To get filled you generally have to be there — which is what price to take #1 on the item pages means: one dollar more than the current best.