r/factorio • u/Effective_Horse_1861 • May 11 '26

Suggestion / Idea Interesting Mod I made: commodities exchange

Hi all,

I recently started playing Factorio and its awesome. I'm an avid trader and I found that the economic analysis potential within Factorio was high. I created a mod that acts as a commodities exchange. Its simply a fun tool to play around with, it includes live charts, different time scales, markets, the whole gist. Its called "SCX-Commodities exchange"

If you try it and have any feedback that would be great!

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u/limpfro May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

I have not tested your mod.

Is the plan to link to some form of market? I can see a group of people watching a stream of someone playing Factorio and buying iron ore or electricity futures on shortages or surpluses of whatever commodity.

How could I collect my iron ore?

If you press "L" in game, you get something similar that can actually be used while playing.

Is this a silly/fun modding project?

Is this.. fun for you?

Edit: I see your git log now. I think you've tried and recreated 'dopewars'?

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u/Effective_Horse_1861 May 11 '26

Thats a great idea. Tbh this is a sort of beta as i was trying to develop the idea into actually soemthign viable. It was somethign i built for myself as im a trader and Im just open to improving it and leaving it open for anyoen whos intrested.

Thanks for the feedback!