DonutSMP Teams Guide
Teams on DonutSMP allow groups of up to 50 players to coordinate together, share resources, communicate, and organize activities like base building and raiding. Teams are essential for coordinating large-scale farms and bases, organizing raids on enemy bases, sharing a team home location, building trust networks for trading, and competing in server events and competitions.
Team Management
Players can create a team using /team create followed by a team name, but must have sold at least 50,000 worth of items via /sell to meet the requirements. The team creator becomes the team leader with full permissions. Team names should be chosen carefully as they represent the group in the community. Teams can be permanently disbanded using /team disband, though this action cannot be undone and will delete all team data including the team home.
Team leaders can invite players using /team invite followed by a username. Invited players must accept the invitation to join, and can only be in one team at a time. Players can leave their current team using /team leave. Teams have a maximum size of 50 members, with roles including the team leader who creates the team and has full permissions, and regular members who are standard team participants.
Teams receive a shared team home that all members can access in addition to personal /home slots. All team members can teleport to the team home, though only the team leader or authorized members can set the team home location. Donut+ members receive the team home in addition to their extra personal homes, allowing them to spread spawners and valuable items across more locations. The team home serves as a shared meeting point for easy coordination, a central hub for team operations, and a safe respawn location during raids. Teams often place shared farms at the team home location, centralize bulk storage with appropriate risk consideration, and create trading posts for internal team economy. Strategic team home placement includes locations near valuable resources like bedrock holes and good terrain, positions hidden from pie-charting when possible, areas with multiple escape routes in case of raids, and spots accessible from the Nether for fast travel.
Strategy & Coordination
Teams can build massive shared bases that would be impossible solo by distributing farm building across multiple members, sharing spawner locations with trusted members only, pooling resources for large construction projects, and creating backup bases in case of raids. Organized teams execute sophisticated raids by scouting enemy bases together, coordinating simultaneous attacks, sharing loot from successful raids, and protecting each other during PvP encounters.
Teams dominate the economy through cooperation by running joint casino operations, operating spawner markets together, pooling funds for bulk /orders purchases, sharing auction house flipping strategies, and trading internally at better rates than the public market. Most successful teams maintain private Discord servers for voice coordination during raids, sharing screenshots of base locations, planning strategies privately, trading items between members, and recruiting new members. The DonutSMP Discord has a market channel where teams can buy and sell items in bulk, trade spawners with other teams, recruit new members, advertise services like base building and maparts, and coordinate cross-team alliances.
Since teams share information and locations, trust is critical. Players should only invite members they know and trust, avoid sharing the most valuable spawner locations immediately, test new members with smaller responsibilities first, and keep backup bases unknown to most team members. Team betrayals happen when members leak base coordinates, steal from shared storage, raid the team after leaving, or spread information about team wealth to enemies. Teams mitigate insider threats by spreading critical infrastructure across multiple bases, limiting access to valuable resources, keeping the most valuable items in personal bases, and maintaining contingency plans if compromised. Players should be careful about team Discord invitations and follow security guidelines to protect their accounts.
Successful teams focus on recruitment by looking for active and trustworthy players, advertising in Discord and in-game chat, offering value through shared farms and protection, and starting small while growing organically. Teams retain members by keeping them engaged with team goals, sharing profits fairly, helping newer members progress, and creating a positive environment. Teams grow by expanding territory with new bases, increasing economic power through coordination, building reputation in the community, and attracting better players through success. Common team goals include building the largest spawner farm on the server, dominating the auction house in specific items, becoming the richest team by total wealth, raiding and acquiring rare items, creating the most impressive bases, and winning server-wide events and competitions.