Sponge Primary
Absorption radius, saturation, and drying in a furnace or the nether — the reason clearing water is a manual loop rather than a machine you point and leave.
Video source notes
Four teams. One was
lying about which side.
Most of this story survives only in community-maintained records written by the people involved. That is stated here as plainly as it is stated in the video.
The two days
Baited on the 3rd, peaked on the 4th.
Dates and sequence from the community war record · fan-edited, not official- 3 Aug 2026
- baiting begins
- 4 Aug 2026
- largest flood machine built
- ~2 hrs
- to cover most of the map
- 4
- teams by the end
The core idea
A server owner fighting his own audience.
The flooding on 3 August 2026 was not carried out by a rival server or an outside group. According to the community record, a large-audience creator and his moderators baited viewers — including the server’s own — into building flood machines, and the next day the largest machine yet went up. Four factions came out of it: Flood, Drain, Lava, and Obsidian, the last of which had been Team Flood under a different name.
Two things make this different from ordinary griefing. Griefing is not a rule break on DonutSMP, so there was no plugin to invoke and no rollback to demand. And thousands of new water source blocks appearing at once degrades tick rate, so the flood made the server slower to play while people were trying to fight it.
“He never really had an army. He had an audience, and audiences change their mind.”
The betrayal — two players sitting in Team Obsidian while working with Team Drain — is the part with the weakest sourcing in the whole story. It appears in the community war record and the people named have not confirmed it themselves. The video says so on screen; this page repeats it rather than burying it in a footnote.
Primary sources
Mechanics anyone can check.
Minecraft Wiki ↗
Water Primary
The source-block spreading rule that makes flooding self-sustaining once placed.
Flood machine schematic Artifact
Published machine files, evidence the design was distributed rather than improvised.
Community records
Evidence that people said things.
Usable as proof the war was described this way by its participants — not as proof the descriptions are accurate.
“Donut SMP War” Curated
The fan wiki this account leans on: the 3 August baiting, the 4 August machine, the two-hour flood, the four teams, the unfollowings, and the claim that two Team Obsidian members were working with Team Drain. Entirely community-entered.
Team Flood’s own site Curated
Promotional material from one faction. Cited for framing and organisation only.
The drainers’ guide Secondary
The other faction’s public material, including the naming problem that made drain techniques hard to find.
“This is why Team Flood will lose on DonutSMP” Secondary
Creator coverage arguing the drain case. Used for the shape of the argument, not for figures.
Coverage of the owner’s position Secondary
Creator upload on DrDonut and Team Drain after the war. Secondary commentary.
Tracked player counts Primary
Independent population data for the months surrounding the war.
Conflict log · what the sources dispute
Where the sources disagree.
This is the least verifiable story on the channel and it is presented that way in the video too.
| Claim | What the video says | What the sources say | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| The double agents | stated, with an explicit note that the people involved have not confirmed it | appears only in the community war record | Reported as a community claim. Not as established fact. |
| Name spellings | Cruse, Splink | the wiki renders one of them Cruz | Spelling unresolved; both forms appear in community sources. |
| A one-billion in-game scam | not mentioned | the community record also alleges a $1,000,000,000 in-game scam between two of the named players | Left out of the video — single-source and unrelated to the flood argument. |
| Bounties from the owner | mentioned without a figure | amounts appear in community talk only | No number stated, deliberately. |
| How much is still underwater | unknown | nobody has published a figure for flooded or drained area | Stated as unknown. |
Every date and faction name on this page traces to a fan-edited wiki. It is cited because it is the only continuous record that exists, and it should be read as the participants’ own account of a war they were fighting.