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RimWorld Compute
A stock market and a compute economy that fit inside the fiction rather than beside it.
Colony-sim players who want the economy to be a system, not a shop.
- Built on
- C# + Harmony
- Specified in full
- Written out before any of it was built
- Status
- Designed in full, build not started
What it is
A RimWorld mod that adds a stock market to the colony economy. Colonists trade shares in the other civilisations of the rim at a trading bench, and prices move with real in-game events — wars, raids, faction relations, trade visits, seasons, and a slow bull/bear cycle.
Later, datacenters and crafted compute modules automate the trading and store knowledge to sharpen its edge, scaling the fantasy from one colonist clicking buy and sell to an autonomous financial machine. No amount of compute makes trading risk-free; that ceiling is a stated design guarantee.
Capabilities
What it actually does.
Colony-sim players who want the economy to be a system, not a shop.
Share prices driven
Share prices driven by real in-game events plus a long-cycle market trend
Datacenters and compute modules
Datacenters and compute modules that automate and improve trading
A designed risk floor
A designed risk floor — compute never removes volatility
Core-only baseline
Core-only baseline with optional DLC integration
How it works
3 moves, end to end.
This is how RimWorld Compute works, not a set of steps you can follow yet — it is specified and not distributed.
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The design is written out in full — the mechanism, the edge cases and the parts that do not work yet.
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Every decision carries the alternative it was chosen over.
Build from it
A specification an engineer can read is a specification an agent can read.
Specification
Made of, and made when.
Read from the repository at build time rather than typed onto a marketing page.
- State
- Specified
- Discipline
- Research
- Shape
- Specification
- Last change
- Jul 2026
- C#
- Harmony
- RimWorld 1.6
Related work
Built alongside RimWorld Compute
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