DonutSMP weekly player tracking Primary
Independent third-party sampling of DonutSMP’s concurrent players, the source of the 28,020 → 13,076 weekly averages and the Hypixel comparison.
Video source notes
Half the players
gone in a week.
One number in this story is measured every day by third parties. The other — three billion blocks underwater — traces to a single creator and stops there. This page keeps them apart.
Tracked player counts
The collapse is the part with a paper trail.
Weekly averages from Minecraft Stats · Hypixel shown for the same weeks- 28,020
- DonutSMP, week of 28 May 2026
- 13,076
- DonutSMP, week of 4 Jun 2026
- ~53%
- lost in seven days
- 26,309
- Hypixel, same week — flat
The core idea
A server-specific collapse, and a flood nobody can measure.
Two things happened to DonutSMP in 2026 and only one of them can be counted. The first is the drop: third-party trackers recorded a weekly average of 28,020 players in the week of 28 May and 13,076 in the week of 4 June. Hypixel moved from 25,360 to 26,309 across the same window. Minecraft did not have a bad week; this server did.
The second is the flood. From July onward, players built water machines that spread on their own and turned large stretches of the map into seabed. That part is real and heavily filmed. What is not real is a total. There is no server-side block counter, no developer statement, and no independent audit — so the widely repeated “3 billion blocks” figure is one creator’s claim that the internet adopted by repetition.
“This is a war being documented entirely by its own combatants. Everyone filming has a reason to make it look bigger than it is.”
The one piece of interpretation in the video is flagged as interpretation on screen and again here: the reason a flood in a 30-million-block world matters at all is that random teleport drops players into a fixed ring near spawn, and the owner has said that ring stays where it is after the border expands. Every active base sits inside the same small area. No official source has confirmed that this is why the flood landed so hard. It is our conclusion, not a sourced fact.
Primary sources
Measured, not repeated.
minecraft-stats.com ↗
“What Happened to DonutSMP and Why It Lost the #1 Spot” Primary
The published weekly table: 35,891 (22 Jan), 44,400 (19 Feb), 36,020 (9 Apr), 28,020 (28 May), 13,076 (4 Jun), with Hypixel flat at 25,360 → 26,309. Also documents the October 2023 loss of the legacy world.
Border expansion and the RTP ring Corroboration
Community wiki page for the planned 225k → 30M border, the hardware ordered for it, and the statement that random-teleport range stays unchanged. Fan-edited, so treated as corroboration.
Community update log Corroboration
Community-maintained record of the 2 June 2026 update — shop, teams, duels, AFK farming and the shard changes.
Live server status Primary
Current player count and ping history, for checking any figure on this page against today.
The flood, as documented by its participants
Evidence the trend existed.
These prove people built, filmed and shared flood machines. They are not evidence of how much of the map is underwater.
Flood-machine schematics Artifact
Downloadable DonutSMP flooding-machine schematics, timestamped and public. Independent proof that the build was commoditised and distributed, not improvised once.
Second schematic host Artifact
The same machine mirrored on a second schematic site — corroborates spread rather than a single upload.
Flood vs anti-flood guide Secondary
Community write-up of the two camps and the machines each side used.
The drainers’ own site Secondary
“DonutSMP is underwater: how to drain it” — drain machines decoded from .litematic files. Written by the side with an interest in the flood looking beatable.
“Using The Biggest Flooding Machine On DonutSMP” Secondary
Creator upload showing a large machine in operation. Used for footage context, not for scale claims.
Community record of the flood war Curated
Fan wiki timeline of the August escalation. Useful as a record that people said things; every date in it is community-entered.
Conflict log · what the sources dispute
What could not be verified.
The video labels these on screen. They are listed again here so the page can be checked against the claim rather than the other way round.
| Claim | What the video says | What the sources say | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| “3 billion blocks” underwater | attributed to one creator, flagged unverifiable | no server-side counter, no developer statement, no independent audit | Repeated as a claim about a claim. Never as a measurement. |
| 60,000 peak concurrent | the owner’s figure, and he has said some were bots | trackers publish weekly averages, not that peak | Attributed to the owner. Not treated as telemetry. |
| Cause of the drop | the 2 June 2026 update | Hypixel was flat across the same week | Server-specific, not a Minecraft-wide dip. Mechanism stated, causation hedged. |
| “The owner already fixed it” | not repeated | low-reach TikToks only, no confirmation anywhere | Excluded. |
| Why the flood mattered so much | stated on screen as the presenter’s conclusion | no official source addresses the RTP ring’s role | Interpretation, labelled as interpretation. |
The flood is documented almost entirely by the people doing the flooding and the people doing the draining. Both sides gain from it looking larger. Treat every figure in that footage as advocacy until a neutral source publishes one.