Do you want to start selling more products on your Minecraft server, and increase your profits?
We researched and found the 9 top-selling donator items for Minecraft servers, which could increase your server’s earnings and player activity.
Top items purchased on Minecraft servers
After doing a thorough research on what items donators purchase on Minecraft servers, we found the below 9 categories, to be the most profitable and desired products.
To even help you understand how popular these items are, we have included the average money they have generated from server donations.
Keys for loot boxes
Loot boxes are the most desired items on Minecraft servers, and they can come in free or paid variants. Their desire comes from the odds of receiving a better item or a key for a more expensive crate.
To profit from loot boxes, you will need to have multiple variations, and even create products bundles.
OPBlocks is a perfect example, of making crate keys sellable, bringing them between $4000 and $7000 a month.
Currencies
Server currencies are one of the newest trends on Minecraft servers, and they bring huge profits for server owners. The idea of having currencies first occurred in Hypixel, and CraftersMC, which earns them roughly between $2000 to $30,000 per month from player purchases.
However, SkyGems is a risky item to sell, due to EULA policies. You will need to have tradeable items, including the currency, or at least items bought with premium currencies should be traded. This tactic is utilized by Hypixel and allows EULA-friendly donations to be made.
Cosmetics
Cosmetics are the most popular donator item for Minecraft servers, and they could bring in profits every month.
Cosmetic items often include particles, followers, morphs, and even trails, that give your character special effects while walking or staying in one place.
From our research, cosmetic items take second place of the top donator items, since you can make thousands of variable cosmetic items, and earn from it.
Cosmetic items tend to make between $250 to $7000 a month and continue to thrive.
Ranks
Ranks on Minecraft server as the most popular item, which people would donate for. It not only gives you a handful of commands under a special price but also gives a higher status on the server.
Purchasing the highest rank on a Minecraft server often gives a higher status, which entices players to upgrade from default members. And when you set proper pricing, and multiple variations of your ranks, profiting off your Minecraft server becomes easier.
Our research shows that servers make between $200 to $4000 by purchasing permanent ranks.
Utilizing a monthly subscription rank system could improve profits by $50 to $2500, while seasonal ranks tend to perform better in terms of repurchasing.
Pets
Pets are a great EULA-friendly item, which is considered a player cosmetic, and is one of the top-selling donator items for Minecraft servers. Its popularity grew so rapidly, that even the giant Hypixel has integrated them into their stores.
While pets can give your server good profits, you should consider having alternative items, since buying a pet, should be a one-time transaction.
The profit made from pets on most Minecraft servers is estimated to be between $200 and $700 every month, depending on your server’s player base.
If you want to own the same pet system, take a look at Advanced Pets (used by Hypixel).
Commands
Commands are usually an EULA-friendly donator item, which many Minecraft servers sell when combined with plugins that don’t give a competitive advantage.
When selling a command to a donator, you will need to keep in mind that any item that makes players stronger could be in breach with the EULA, and get your server banned.
To give special commands to players, you can utilize teleportation, home, and similar commands, which save players time. Giving them extras such as game modes, could cause a significant gap between the paying, and non-paying users.
Our recent research on commands has shown a high interest in purchases, and selling commands on your Minecraft server could earn you between $25 to $1500 on a seasonal basis.
Extra Perks
Extra Perks are cosmetic extras or even statuses outside of Minecraft servers. These include items such as country flags, forum tags, and all variants of forum commands.
While purchasing ranks on forums does not give any competitive advantages, it is a symbol of status, which many players appreciate, and purchase in bundles.
By reviewing smaller Minecraft servers with forums, we found their donations for extra perks are between $150 to $750 per month.
Kits
Kits are one of the hardest donator items to sell on a Minecraft server. A reason for that is its status of being EULA-unfriendly. Since kits are possibly strong items and give donors a significant competitive edge, many Minecraft servers have disbanded them.
However, Prison servers have utilized kits as a perfect farming kit, which could also be traded.
By selling kits, many small Prison servers have managed to make between $100 to $500 per month.
Titles
Titles aren’t a popular donator item for Minecraft servers but sell very well. Especially, the custom ones. If you wonder what a title is, it’s the custom tag, set behind your rank or player name.
By reviewing smaller servers, we found that selling titles could earn you $50 to $300 per month.
For custom titles, we have seen prices go up to $100 for custom titles, on a seasonal basis.
Rad is the lead writer for the MineLabz team, dedicated to writing content for Minecraft enthusiasts. Combining Minecraft and Marketing, Rad creates all kinds of articles for the server development community.