THE DONUTSMP FLOOD WAR
Flood machines turned DonutSMP into two camps: the players washing bases off the map, and the players sponging them back. Here's how both sides work, and the free schematics for each.
Flood Machine
A self-propelled flying machine that drags a water source behind it. Point it at a base, let it run, and everything below it disappears under water until someone stops it.
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Anti Flood Machine
A counter-machine that intercepts a flood before it reaches your build, breaking the loop and clearing the water so your base survives the raid.
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Last 24 hours, updated 1 Sept 2026, 17:57 UTCThe live state of the DonutSMP flood war: how much of the Overworld is under water, how often a random teleport lands with flooding in view, and which regions are taking the worst of it.
2.43%
36.4M of 1.5B scanned blocks
47.80%
4,325 of 9,048 rtps
6.1B
of 250B blocks total Overworld area
DAILY FLOOD PROGRESS
Share of the Overworld flooded in each day's scans.
REGIONAL COMPARISON
Last 24 hours, ranked by flooded rtps.
- 1EU Central67.58%
4.13% of scanned area flooded
- 2EU West55.01%
3.28% of scanned area flooded
- 3Asia43.52%
1.51% of scanned area flooded
- 4NA East41.86%
2.64% of scanned area flooded
- 5NA West39.96%
1.88% of scanned area flooded
- 6Oceania38.80%
1.40% of scanned area flooded
Flooded area is the share of scanned blocks that are under water. Flooded rtp is how often a random teleport in that region lands with flooding in view.
HOW A FLOOD MACHINE WORKS
At its core a flood machine is a standard slime-block flying machine: two pistons and two observers pushing each other forward forever. What makes it a flood machine is the payload, a water source carried along with the machine, spilling continuously as it travels.
Because it keeps moving on its own, one player can launch a machine and walk away. It will keep flooding until it hits an unpushable block, runs out of chunk loading, or somebody breaks the loop by hand.
HOW TO STOP ONE
The machine dies the moment its push-pull cycle breaks. Mine one observer or one piston and the whole thing stalls. Obsidian, bedrock or any block a piston can't move placed in its path stops it before it arrives, which is why flood-proof bases are built inside an unpushable shell.
After that it's cleanup: sponges soak up the water fast, and a stack of them in a chest near your entrance turns a raid into an inconvenience instead of a disaster.