Oct 27, 2026 · News desk · New meta
Tuesday, October 27, 2026. There is no new official DonutSMP announcement this week. This page is a roundup of money-making "meta" claims from public YouTube creator videos in the last few days.
We are not official DonutSMP staff. Each section below is that creator's claim, taken from the public title (and, for the powered-rail clip, the public description). We did not rebuild the farms, time a run, or turn a title into a live price. The October 21 money-making comparison is the longer frame for startup, effort, and risk.

Public title: "SPIDER EYES are the NEW META! (DonutSMP)". The title names spider eyes as the new meta. It does not state an hourly rate, a craft recipe, or a buy price, so this page does not add those.
Setup cost is a spider farm, or money on hand if you buy the eyes. A farm costs time, space, and collection. A buy-in only works if the eyes still sell for more than you paid after whatever the video does with them. It depends on the live price of spider eyes, and on there being a buyer. Open the Auction House and Orders for spider eyes before you build. Once a "new meta" clip is public, more players list the same item and the price can drop before a large farm pays back. Start with a small batch, sell it, and only then decide whether a bigger farm is worth the setup.
Public title: "This Is The New DonutSMP Meta !". This roundup files that clip under cobbled deepslate. The title itself does not name the block, a price, or an hourly rate, so this section does not print one. Anything the video says about what the block sells for is the creator's claim.

Setup cost is mostly time, a pickaxe, and storage. Cobbled deepslate comes from mining deepslate, then possibly crafting a slab, brick, or tile if that is what the clip actually sells. Match the exact item. A similar-looking block is a different listing. It depends on the live price of that exact block and on whether Orders or the Auction House can absorb a quarry's worth of it. A bulk building block is one of the first prices to fall after a clip spreads. Check the price, mine a test load, sell that load, and stop if the sale no longer clears the time.
Public title: "NEW META! Powered Rail Crafter Makes 90M/Hour on DonutSMP!". The public description under that video calls it a powered rail crafter farm, says it makes 90 million per hour, and describes the setup as automated crafting. That is the creator's claim. This desk did not build the farm or time an hour.
Vanilla powered rails are crafted from gold, sticks, and redstone. Plan for that material bill, plus crafters, hoppers, and storage. The 90M/hour line depends on the live sell price of powered rails staying high enough to beat the gold and redstone you put in, and on the farm actually crafting at the rate in the title. Gold is the expensive input, so the title can hide a large material bill. If everyone copies the clip, the rail price is what moves. Check powered rails on the Auction House and on Orders before you buy a chest of gold. Start with one crafter and one short timed test. The how-to-get-money guide and the money-making methods guide cover the same check for any farm: prove a sell path, then scale.
Public title: "This DonutSMP Farm Makes 106m Profit Per Hour!". The title claims 106m profit per hour. It does not name the farm, the output item, or the startup cost. This page will not guess them. "Profit" is the creator's word. It is not a run we repeated, and the title does not say what was subtracted for materials.
Do not build from the title alone. Watch enough of the clip to write down the output item and the inputs, then price both. Setup cost is whatever pile of materials the build needs before the first hour. It depends on that output still having buyers at a price that clears the inputs. A per-hour profit figure dies if the output price drops after the clip spreads, or if the startup pile costs more than one hour of the claimed profit. Start with one short run and one real sale. The October 9 farm-meta note uses the same rule: a short public clip is not proof.
Public title: "I build a Huge snow farm to earn Billions! (Donutsmp)". The title claims a huge snow farm meant to earn billions. It does not state an hourly rate or a unit price, so this page does not add one. "Billions" is the creator's claim about that build, not a result we measured.

A huge farm is the setup cost: space, collection, storage, and the time to build it before the first sale. Snow golems on ice are one ordinary way to produce snow. The title does not specify the layout, so match the video before you copy one. It depends on the live price of snow and on whether you can sell the volume. Snow is a common block. Billions only holds if the price the creator is using is still the price when you sell, and if the farm runs at the scale the title implies. Check snow on the Auction House, on Orders, and with /sell before you dig the hole. One module and one timed session is enough to see whether the stack sells. A public clip is also the moment more snow farms show up, which is how a cheap block gets cheaper. Before a build that large, read the October 16 farm-limits note and check in game. That note covers the public creeper cap, item-frame cap, and the hopper-speed disagreement. It is not a snow-farm rate.
A meta is dead when the item still farms and the sale no longer clears the materials or the time. Three checks, before a big build:
The October 21 comparison sorts farms, /sell, Auction House flipping, Orders, and shard playtime by startup, effort, and risk. Use that table when a title offers only an hourly number.
Fan clips this week show players getting scammed in trades. This page does not name those clips or quote them. If you trade for farm materials, or sell a farm's output player to player, trade with a trusted middleman and still verify the item. Check the exact item, the quantity, and any enchants, durability, names, or contents in the trade window before you accept. A name in chat is not the item. The October 3 trading checklist is the longer version of that check.