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Questions

FAQ.

The basics
What is DrCoconut?

A provably fair games platform for the DonutSMP community. 11 games, played with virtual server currency, where every result is committed to before you play and can be recomputed by anyone afterwards.

Is this real-money gambling?

No. DrCoconut is an entertainment service for the DonutSMP community. Balances are virtual server currency with no cash value. Nothing here can be bought with, or exchanged for, real money. There is no payment integration anywhere in this platform — not for cards, not for cryptocurrency, not for anything else.

What currency am I playing with?

DonutSMP Coins. It is virtual server currency with no cash value, and it cannot be exchanged for money.

Do I need to be a certain age?

You must be 18 or older to hold an account, and you confirm that when you register.

Fairness
How do I know a result was not rigged?

Before you play, the server publishes the SHA-256 hash of a secret seed. Your own client seed goes into the same calculation, so the server cannot have chosen a seed that suits yours. Afterwards you can reveal the server seed and confirm it hashes to what was published. If a single result had been altered, the hash would not match. Try the verifier.

Could the server decide where the mines are after I click?

No, and this is the reason the whole board is generated when a round opens rather than tile by tile. The mine layout, the shuffled blackjack shoe and every Towers trap all exist before your first move. If they were decided as you played, the revealed seed would not reproduce your round — and it does.

Can I verify a round without using your tool?

Yes. Compute HMAC-SHA256(serverSeed, `clientSeed:nonce:cursor`) and read the digest four bytes at a time; each group is a uniform float. The fairness page documents the order in which each game consumes that stream.

When is my server seed revealed?

When you rotate your seed pair, which you can do at any time from the fairness page. Rotating retires the current seed, publishes it, and issues a fresh pair immediately so play is not interrupted.

Money and rewards
What is the house edge?

It varies by game and is published on every game page and on the games dashboard. Nothing is hidden in the odds: the games pay true probability discounted by the stated edge, and roulette carries only the structural 2.70% of a single-zero wheel.

What is rakeback?

A share of everything you wager, banked back to you at your rank's rate whether you win or lose. It accrues on every settled round and is claimable once it passes the minimum.

How do ranks work?

Rank is a function of lifetime wagered volume, from Bronze through Obsidian. Each rank raises your daily reward and your rakeback rate. Thresholds are configurable by the operator and shown on the rewards page.

Does my referral cost the person I refer anything?

No. Commission is paid by the house out of its edge. The player you referred wagers and wins exactly what they would have without a referral.

Account
Why do I have to prove my Minecraft account?

Because typing a username proves nothing. Linking issues a code you present in game, and the account is stored by its Mojang UUID rather than its name — names can be changed and reused, UUIDs cannot.

Can I take a break?

Yes. Settings has a pause control that blocks every bet on your account for a period you choose. It cannot be lifted early, by you or by staff.

What happens if I lose connection mid-round?

Nothing is lost. Multi-step rounds live on the server, so reloading picks the round back up exactly where it was. A Crash round interrupted by a server restart refunds every stake it was holding.

Play well

Play for entertainment. Set a limit before you start, take breaks, and stop when it stops being fun. You can pause your own account at any time from Settings.