Making Money on SMP

The big picture

Money on Sunrise SMP comes from four main sources: selling materials, mcMMO skills, voting, and player trade. Most players combine all four. The biggest single goal — unlocking the /fly command from the server shop — costs around $35 million, so think of this as a long game.

The fastest passive income: farms

Selling stacks of bulk materials via /sell hand is how nearly every wealthy player got there. The goods that hold up over time:

• Sugar cane — easy to AFK farm, sells reliably.
• Cactus — top-tier passive income. Several players run cactus farms in the 500,000+ range.
• Diamonds — a solid stockpile-and-sell staple; check the live price with /worth rather than assuming a fixed rate.
• Netherite — high value per item; worth setting aside from mining trips.
• Building bulk — gravel, tuff, blackstone, blue ice, and packed ice sell reliably and are easy to gather in volume.

Check the sell price of any item with /worth while holding it — prices are market-driven, so there's no fixed rate.

Tip: ask in chat where the busiest /wild resource zones are before setting up a big farm — claim conflicts are easier to avoid up front than to untangle later.

mcMMO skills

mcMMO adds RPG-style skill levels to everyday actions. As you mine, chop, fish, and fight, your skill levels increase and unlock passive bonuses — faster mining, double drops, critical hits, and more. There's nothing extra to enable; just play normally and your skills grow automatically.

Voting (free, daily)

Voting is the most reliable free income source on the server. Run /vote in-game to open the four vote sites for SMP, then vote on all four in the same day to receive a Vote Key.

A few practical points:

• Offline voting works. If you vote while not logged in, your reward is held until you next join.
• Bedrock players: include the . prefix. Your username has one and the vote sites need it exactly.
• PlanetMinecraft sometimes drops votes. If you voted on all sites but didn't get your key, message staff with your username — they can manually grant it.
• Vote milestones unlock ranks. At 420 total votes you'll reach the Moon rank, which includes /fly directly. That alone makes voting one of the highest-value activities on the server.

Auction House and player shops

Once you have stockpiles, sell to other players for higher margins than /sell hand gives you.

/ah                 browse the auction house
/ah sell <price>    list the item you're holding

Bedrock players can now use /ah too — chest shops in player warps still work if you prefer them.

For chest shops, set up at a public spot or claim a free shop plot at /shop (ask staff for assignment). Then:

1. Use /setwarp <name> so other players can find you.
2. Place a chest with a sign on top.
3. Stock it and price it competitively — check /ah to see what items are going for.

Pay-to-unlock perks (worth saving for)

A few money sinks are worth setting goals around:

• /fly — costs about $35 million from /shop. The standard end-game purchase. Faster path: vote your way to Moon rank.
• Home upgrades — extra /sethome slots, bought through /shop. Tiers must be purchased in order — you can't skip.
• Sun and Moon rank perks — Sun unlocks /back, /fix, /hat, and extra homes; Moon adds /fly and Keep Inventory on top.

Useful economy commands

/balance              see your balance
/pay <player> <amt>   send money to another player
/sell hand            sell the item you're holding
/worth                check sell price of held item
/ah                   auction house (Java + Bedrock)
/ah sell <price>      list the held item
/shop                 server shop (perks, kits, upgrades)

A starter plan

If you're new, here's an order that works for most players:

1. Run /kit claim and protect a small base.
2. Start a sugar cane or cactus farm as soon as you can. Even small ones add up.
3. Vote every day. Set a reminder.
4. Use /sell hand to turn gathered materials into cash; check prices with /worth.
5. Once you have a stockpile, list bulk goods on /ah instead of /sell hand to get more per item.
6. Keep voting toward Moon rank (420 votes) for the /fly shortcut.

By the time you hit Moon, you'll have enough income running passively to start saving toward whatever's next.