Donut SMP rules boil down to this: play legit, keep chat clean, don't trade for real money, and don't run anything on your client that gives you an edge. Break them and you can get warned, muted, temp-banned or permanently banned, and staff have the final say. The official list lives at rules.donutsmp.net, and it was last updated on November 11, 2026. Everything below is as of November 2026, and the rules can change without notice, so check the source before you rely on a detail.
Short answers to the questions people actually search: yes, you can get banned, and mods are the most common trap. There's no published list of allowed mods, only a list of banned ones. An appeal goes through a support ticket, and nobody promises it'll work. Details below.
What can get you banned on Donut SMP
The rules page opens with a few ground rules that apply to everything else. All threats are treated as serious, with no "it was a joke" exception. Don't joke about breaking rules either. If you're not sure something is allowed, don't do it, and don't hunt for ways around a rule, because that gets punished too. The official line is that violations "may result in warnings, mutes, temporary bans, or permanent bans" and that staff have final discretion.
If you're brand new, my Donut SMP beginner guide covers how to actually get going. This page is just the don't-get-banned part.
Chat and behaviour
- Chat is PG. No cursing, no spamming or flooding, and no getting around the chat filter with signs, commands or any other trick.
- No harassment. Bullying, threats, hate speech, discriminatory language, death threats and suicide encouragement are all out. So is pretending to be staff, and so is excessive toxicity.
- No sensitive topics. Politics and religion are listed, along with illegal and adult content.
- No personal info. Don't share yours, anyone else's, or made-up details, and don't try to pull it out of someone by trickery or threats.
- No advertising. That includes other servers, hack tools and "IRL-trading" servers, and Discord tags that promote servers that break rules.
- Names and builds count. Skins, usernames, nicknames, item names, map art, chests and signs can't be offensive, explicit or discriminatory.
- Voice chat is chat. The same rules apply in proximity voice: no slurs, no hate speech, no mic boosting or disruptive noises. Basic curse words are the stated limit.
Signs are the easy one to forget. The filter rule names them, and so does the naming rule, so treat anything you write on a sign like a chat message.
Cheating and client mods: what's banned
This is the section to read twice. The rule is blunt: no hacked clients, no modified clients, no movement mods. The Terms of Service (April 2026 version) add "modifications that provide unfair advantages" as a catch-all, so the list below isn't the whole universe.
| Banned | What that covers |
|---|---|
| Hacked or modified clients | Anything giving an unfair advantage, plus movement mods that change speed, flight, reach or movement beyond vanilla |
| ESP and X-Ray | Showing players through walls, outlining chests or entities, highlighting ores, revealing caves, mineshafts, structures or bases, transparent blocks |
| Radar minimaps | Any minimap that shows entities, players or caves |
| Auto-clickers | For attacking, breaking, fishing, farming, placing blocks, menus or spawners |
| Macros and scripts | Auto-selling, repeating commands, auctions, auto-crafting, harvest and replant loops, fixed-pattern mining, mob grinding, anything in spawners, and PvP macros like auto item switching |
| Baritone and similar | Pathfinding, auto-mining, schematic auto-building, automated gathering |
| Auto-place and easy-place | Auto-bridging and orientation-assist building mods |
| Health indicators | Mods, resource packs or client features that show a player's or mob's health when vanilla wouldn't |
| Freecam | No exceptions listed |
| Mouse Tweaks and scrollers | Auto-sorting, fast bulk item moves, scrolling to move stacks faster than normal |
| Crafting mods | Bulk crafting in one action, auto-crafting ingots to blocks |
Notice how many of those are "quality of life" mods that feel harmless. Mouse Tweaks and health indicators are named outright, so "it's just a QoL mod" won't save you.
Macros are the other trap. The rules call out macros in spawners and farming loops, so an AFK setup that clicks for you can count. My Donut SMP AFK guide is the place for what that means in practice.
The server also says it runs real-time client integrity checks while you play, to detect unauthorized modifications. It doesn't store the results or a list of your mods, according to its privacy policy.
What mods are allowed on Donut SMP?
Here's the honest answer: there's no official allowed-mods list. The rules publish what's banned and stop there. The one thing they explicitly allow is a regular minimap, as long as it doesn't show entities, players or cave layers.
Plenty of sites will hand you a neat whitelist of performance and visual mods. Treat those with suspicion, because some come from sellers of in-game coins and the server itself doesn't back them up. Performance mods and shaders aren't on the banned list, but nothing official blesses them either. My rule of thumb: if a mod does anything beyond making the game run or look better, like showing info vanilla doesn't, moving items for you or automating an action, assume it's banned. And if you're truly unsure, open a ticket at support.donutsmp.net and ask before you log in with it.
Alts and the 5-account limit
You can have up to five accounts per person. The rules say that using extra accounts beyond that, or using multiple accounts to gain an unfair advantage, isn't allowed. Using alts to dodge a mute or ban is its own rule on top of that, and the Discord rules ban it too.
Family tip: if several people in your household play, make sure each of them knows the rules. The Terms say punishments "may extend to associated accounts."
Trading and real money
- No real-money trading. Swapping items, currency, services or accounts for real money, goods or rewards is out, including gems and cosmetics for cash.
- No cross-server trading. You can't trade, sell or transfer items, currency or accounts between Donut SMP and another server.
- No selling schematics or mods for in-game money. The rules say that earns an IRL-trading ban.
- No gambling mods or machines. Activity has to stay inside Minecraft.
- No rewards for Discord invites, follows or boosts. Giveaways are fine if they aren't used to dodge rules.
- Donation teleports are only allowed if they're never promised as guaranteed, donors get nothing extra, and no teleport is tied to a donation amount.
Per the Terms, offering or buying accounts, items, currency or access on third-party platforms is prohibited unless the server authorizes it in writing. Buying from random sellers is also how people get scammed, so read is Donut SMP safe for the scam patterns. For buying things the right way, see Donut SMP store explained. One thing to know up front: store purchases are generally non-refundable, and that includes getting banned for breaking the Terms.
Bugs, exploits and the seed
Don't duplicate items, and don't try to. That covers bugs, glitches and unintended mechanics. The rules also tell you to report bugs, glitches and staff-related issues, and say that not reporting can be punished. Ratting, meaning any attempt to get into another player's account, computer or data, is a permanent ban.
Finding or using the server seed, directly or indirectly, is also against the rules. I wrote up what that means in my Donut SMP seed guide. If you're building somewhere you'd rather not be found, my guide to hiding your base on Donut SMP is the one to read.
Does Donut SMP IP ban you?
The server doesn't publish an IP-ban policy, so there's no official yes or no. Here's what the official documents do say. The Terms of Service say punishments "may extend to associated accounts." The privacy policy says login IP history is kept for up to 12 months for security, and lists preventing ban evasion as a purpose. Beyond that, anything you read on forums is guesswork. My Donut SMP IP guide covers the address you connect with, which is a separate question.
What punishments look like
The official categories are warnings, mutes, temporary bans and permanent bans. The Terms add that the server can suspend or terminate accounts and remove virtual items, and that punishments can be applied without notice. Some offences name their own result: ratting is a permanent ban, and phishing for accounts or personal info on the server or the Discord is a permanent blacklist. There's no official table of how long a temporary ban lasts, so be skeptical of any page that gives one.
Also in the Terms: accounts, items and currency stay the server's property, items can be removed without compensation, and the server isn't responsible for what you lose in a ban.
How to appeal a Donut SMP ban
- Go to support.donutsmp.net and log in with Discord or Google.
- Link your Minecraft account. The site generates a code, and you run
/linkfollowed by that code on the server. - Open a ticket in the Punishment appeal category, which is for appealing a ban, mute or other sanction. Map art that was removed by mistake has its own separate map art appeal category.
- Say what happened and what you were running or doing. Be calm and specific, and don't spam new tickets.
The Terms say enforcement decisions are final unless explicitly stated otherwise, so an appeal is a chance, not a promise. I wouldn't plan around winning one.
So, can you get banned on Donut SMP?
Yes, and it's easy to do by accident with a single helpful mod or an AFK macro. Skip anything that automates or reveals, keep chat PG, never trade for real money, and read the rules again before you try a new mod. If you're not sure, ask support first. And if this server's rulebook sounds like more than you want to deal with, my list of servers like Donut SMP has other places to play.