Oct 9, 2026 · News desk · Farm meta
DonutSMP farm meta (Oct 9, 2026): public OP-farm tests after /shop — kelp, pearls, bone blocks
On October 9, 2026, there is no brand-new official DonutSMP patch note we can verify from public sources. The useful desk story is what public YouTube OP-farm tests still treat as money routes after /shop was removed: kelp, ender pearls, and bone-block crafters.
Halloween pumpkin-head drops stay live from yesterday's coverage. This page is the broader farm-meta check, not a redo of that event.
What public OP-farm tests highlight
- After /shop left, bulk demand moved to player markets: /orders, /ah, and /sell.
- Creators keep testing compact farms that feed those exits, instead of a server shop tab.
- The wiki framing is the same on the farming, farms, money-making, and farm-profit-planning pages (updated around Sep 7, 2026): pick an output with a verified sell path, build a small test, measure real output, then expand.
Those wiki pages are community notes, not a staff rate card. Use them as a checklist, then measure your own run.
Three metas from one public test video
The figures in this section come from one YouTube video, "I Tested EVERY OP Farm on DonutSMP (NEW METAS)" by SlaySlasher. They are that creator's short runs. They are not guaranteed rates, and they are not a live price table.
Ender pearl farm
The creator says removing /shop raised demand for ender pearls. The build in the clip is a compact endermite farm: the endermite sits above the kill spot, they hit with a Looting sword, and a lever drops the pearls into hoppers. After about 10 minutes they showed three chests and a stack of hoppers full of pearls, then sold that dump into Orders for about $124,000. They also framed the farm as mainly an XP setup for enchanting, with pearl sales as extra. In the video's own ranking this was the smallest cash result of the four tests.
Kelp farm
The larger Orders number in that same video is the kelp test. After about 10 minutes on a set of small stations, the creator sold one batch into Orders for about $850,000 and another set of stations for about $286,000, then added those up as about a million on that short run. They called kelp one of the metas and said a compact build was worth keeping even next to other farms. At the end of the same video they ranked kelp second and said it had faded some after an update. Both lines are that one creator's framing. The clip sold the kelp output into Orders. The farms wiki lists that crop as dried kelp blocks with a /sell path. Either Orders or /sell can be the exit, and neither is a fixed price.
Bone-block crafter
The clip also shows a redstone setup that auto-crafts bones into bone meal and then into bone blocks, with Orders as the sell path. In the video the creator places an example order of 10,000 bones at 65 each. That is a price typed in the clip, not a live Auction House price. They described one bone-block order fill as about $200,000 in roughly three minutes. Across the test they said they spent about $1 million ordering bones and got about $500,000 back, because the bone buy price was high. They still called the crafter useful if you watch bone prices, and they said buying skeleton spawners with shards was no longer available in the update they were talking about, so that test ordered bones (or used skeletons already on hand). Do not copy 65, $200,000, or the $1 million / $500,000 pair as today's market.
The same video also tested a shulker crafter and ranked that short run first, at about $2.7 million, after buying shells and chests on Orders. That result sits outside the three farms this page is checking, and it is still one creator's run.
A second public video, "Every Farm Meta On Donut SMP | Full Tutorials" by BasicRedstone, is a chaptered overview of farm builds. Schematics for those farms are hosted off-site. We do not republish them here.
How to use this without chasing fake rates
This follows the wiki profit-planning order: verified path, small test, measured sale, then a decision about scale.
- Choose one output with a verified sell path. Confirm the item can move through /sell, a real /orders request, or a completed /ah sale. A design with nowhere to sell is not a money farm yet.
- Build a small test, not a mega base first. The wiki profit pages say to prove the current design before you spend on a larger one. A short public clip is not that proof.
- Time a real run. Write down the start, run for a fixed period, then record /sellhistory or the Orders that actually completed. Unsold chests are not revenue.
- Check market capacity before you scale. Someone else can fill the Order while you are AFK. Count only the quantity that Order, /sell, or a completed listing can still take.
- Recheck after updates. The Halloween pumpkin-head event can skew mob grinders. Crop routes such as kelp still matter, and a server change can move either one. See yesterday's Halloween note before you treat a mob grinder's old rate as current.
- Hide coords and split storage while AFK. A busy farm can draw attention. Keep everyday supplies away from the valuables. The practical version is in our base security guide.
What we are not claiming
- No official drop-rate table. Staff have not published rates for these farms in any public note we can verify today.
- No live price table. Orders and the Auction House move. A unit price spoken in a clip is that clip's example, not today's market.
- The border is still announced, not live. Nothing we checked on Oct 9 changes the earlier public status. Border status from Sep 12 is still the desk note to read.
- The flood scan is not today's story. The last daily public progress day in our prior desk note is still Sep 30, at about 55% of RTPs near water. The Oct 7 flood tracker note has the scan detail.
Sources
- YouTube: "I Tested EVERY OP Farm on DonutSMP (NEW METAS)" (SlaySlasher)
- YouTube: "Every Farm Meta On Donut SMP | Full Tutorials" (BasicRedstone)
- DonutSMP Wiki: Farming
- DonutSMP Wiki: Farms
- DonutSMP Wiki: Money Making
- DonutSMP Wiki: Farm Profit Planning
Related on our hub
- DonutSMP early farm ladder (Sep 14, 2026): cactus and bamboo before spawners
- DonutSMP sell multiplier explained (Sep 10, 2026): when /sell beats /ah
- DonutSMP sell routing (Sep 25, 2026): /sell can fill a higher Order first
- DonutSMP Halloween update (Oct 8, 2026): pumpkin-head zombies and skeletons now drop diamonds, iron and coal
- DonutSMP spawners (Sep 16, 2026): closed supply — trade existing cages, not /shop
Farm meta FAQ
No brand-new official patch note we can verify from public sources on October 9, 2026. This page is a farm-meta check from public YouTube tests and the wiki, not a staff changelog.
In "I Tested EVERY OP Farm on DonutSMP (NEW METAS)" by SlaySlasher, one short kelp run sold into Orders for about $850,000 on one dump plus about $286,000 from other stations, which the creator added up as about a million. An endermite pearl farm filled chests and hoppers in about 10 minutes, and that pearl dump sold for about $124,000. A bone-block crafter was shown selling into Orders. In that clip an example bone order was 10,000 bones at 65 each, one bone-block fill was described as about $200,000 in a few minutes, and the creator said they spent about $1 million on bones and got about $500,000 back. Those are single runs, not guaranteed rates or live prices.
Public clips and the wiki point to /sell, /orders, and /ah. /sell can route items to a higher compatible Order. Check how much of an Order is still open before you scale, and record /sellhistory or completed Orders from a timed test.
No. Pumpkin-head mob drops from the October 8 coverage can still skew mob grinders. This October 9 page is the broader farm-meta check: kelp, ender pearls, and bone-block crafters. Crop routes still matter while that event runs.
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