Creeper Farm on DonutSMP — Gunpowder & TNT Money

Creeper farm setup — designs, AFK yields, gunpowder + TNT economy.

Gunpowder is the rocket-fuel and TNT economy on DonutSMP. A creeper-only farm pumps it out 24/7 and pairs perfectly with sugarcane (for crafting rockets).

Why creeper farms beat generic mob farms

A generic mob farm gets you bones, arrows, string, rotten flesh, and some gunpowder. A creeper-only farm uses cats to scare other mob types away, so 90%+ of your spawns are creepers. Yield per hour goes up 5-10×.

The 3 viable designs

1. Cat-based perimeter farm

Place cats every 8 blocks around a flat dark spawning platform. Cats scare zombies, skeletons, and spiders — only creepers spawn. Killing chamber funnels them to a kill spot via water streams.

Yield: 50-90 gunpowder per hour AFK.

2. Portal-based Nether overworld farm

Use the Nether's mob cap by spawning creepers in the Nether and sending them through a portal to a kill chamber in the overworld. Works but more complex.

Yield: 100-150/hr if tuned right.

3. Bedrock-roof creeper farm (Nether)

Build a dark spawn platform on the Nether roof (1.16+ bedrock comp). Creepers fall through tube to overworld kill chamber. Highest yield but most build effort.

Yield: 150-250/hr.

Killing creepers — getting drops

You need creepers to die from player kill (or fall + finishing punch) to drop gunpowder. Lava doesn't drop loot. Use:

22-block fall + 1-tap with sword
Honey slide + magma block setup with a sword reach

Looting III sword = ~2 gunpowder per kill average. Always farm with Looting III.

Selling gunpowder on DonutSMP

Form	Where	Price
Raw gunpowder (per piece)	/order	25-40 coins
TNT (3 sand + 5 gunpowder)	/order	200-280 coins
Rockets stacked	/sell	low (too common)

Bulk strategy: craft to TNT before selling. ~5× value increase per gunpowder.

Cat-scaring math

You need 4+ cats per chunk to fully block other mob spawns. Easy fix: catch ocelots from jungle, tame with raw cod (Bedrock) or raw salmon (Java). Once tamed, cats follow + scare mobs.