QuantCraft — A Real Stock Market Inside Minecraft

Everything you do in your world moves the market. Mine iron, and iron stocks dip. Farm wheat all day, and agricultural prices collapse. Kill enough blazes, and arcane commodities shift. QuantCraft turns your Minecraft world into a living economy where supply, demand, and player behavior drive real price action.

How It Works

Earn -- Deposit resources (iron, wheat, leather, emeralds…) into a Commodity Exchange to receive Dollar Bills.
Invest -- Use Dollar Bills at a Stock Exchange to buy and sell stocks that track in-game resources.
Watch -- Prices update in real time. A Quotron Terminal on your desk shows live tickers, charts, and daily movers.
React -- World events trigger market shifts. Thunderstorms boost lumber. A Wither fight spikes arcane stocks. A flood of player-sold feathers crashes the poultry index.

The market opens at dawn and closes at dusk. You'll see opening movers, closing summaries, and newspapers that report (and cause) breaking events.

Features

Feature	Description
Stock Exchange	Buy and sell stocks. Proximity required — no remote trading.
Commodity Exchange	Convert items to cash. Prices scale with supply pressure.
Quotron Terminal	Live price board with sparkline charts.
Short Selling	Bet against a stock. Post margin, profit if the price drops.
Limit Orders	Set buy/sell targets. Orders execute automatically when the price hits.
Dividends	Hold stocks long enough and earn passive payouts every 3 in-game days.
Payment Requests	Request money from other players directly.
OTC Trades	Negotiate private share deals with other players, off-exchange.
Market Seasons	The economy cycles through Recovery → Expansion → Peak → Contraction. Each phase affects volatility, drift, and dividends differently.
Newspapers	9 rare collectibles found in the world. Reading one triggers a unique market event.
Investment Centers	Abandoned trading halls that generate in the world — remnants of an old market crash. Explore them for loot and terminals.
Portfolio View	Track your holdings, average cost basis, and profit/loss at a glance.
Transaction Tax	A configurable percentage removed from the economy on every trade — keeps inflation in check.
Liquidity Bot	An invisible market maker ensures prices drift naturally even when no one is trading.

Stocks & Sectors

27 stocks across 6 sectors, each with unique volatility and dividend profiles:

Sector	Tickers
Agrarian	WHEAT, CRRT, POTAT, APPLE, MELON
Mining	COAL, IRON, GOLD, DIAM, EMER, LAPIS, RDST, QRTZ
Lumber	OAKW, BIRC, SPRCE
Arcane	EPRL, BLAZ, GLOW, GHST
Livestock	LEAT, WOOL, FTHR, SKEL
Manufactured	GLASS, BRICK, PAPER

Commands

Player commands (/qc):

Command	Description
`/qc balance`	Check your Dollar Bill balance
`/qc portfolio`	View your full holdings and P&L
`/qc pnl`	Quick profit/loss summary
`/qc prices`	List all current stock prices
`/qc price <ticker>`	Check a specific stock price
`/qc buy <ticker> <amount>`	Buy shares at market price
`/qc sell <ticker> <amount>`	Sell shares at market price
`/qc limitbuy <ticker> <amount> <price>`	Place a limit buy order
`/qc limitsell <ticker> <amount> <price>`	Place a limit sell order
`/qc orders`	View your open limit orders
`/qc cancelorder <ticker>`	Cancel a pending order
`/qc short <ticker> <amount>`	Open a short position
`/qc covershort <ticker>`	Close a short position
`/qc shorts`	View open short positions
`/qc pay <player> <amount>`	Send money to another player
`/qc request <player> <amount>`	Request money from a player
`/qc offer <player> <ticker> <amount> <price>`	Propose an OTC trade
`/qc help`	Show command descriptions
`/qc news`	Read the latest market news

Admin commands (/qcadmin):

Command	Description
`/qcadmin crash <ticker>`	Force a stock price crash
`/qcadmin boom <ticker>`	Force a stock price spike
`/qcadmin setprice <ticker> <price>`	Set a stock's price directly
`/qcadmin setbalance <player> <amount>`	Set a player's balance
`/qcadmin give <player> <ticker> <amount>`	Give shares to a player
`/qcadmin take <player> <ticker> <amount>`	Remove shares from a player
`/qcadmin freeze / unfreeze`	Halt or resume all trading
`/qcadmin multiplier <value>`	Set global volatility multiplier (0.1–10)
`/qcadmin event <event>`	Trigger a specific market event
`/qcadmin season set <phase>`	Set market season (recovery/expansion/peak/contraction)
`/qcadmin reset market / portfolios / all`	Reset market data
`/qcadmin info <ticker>`	View detailed stock internals
`/qcadmin bot <ticker> enable/disable/info/cash`	Manage the liquidity bot
`/qcadmin listplayers`	List all players with portfolios
`/qcadmin cancelorders <player>`	Cancel all orders for a player

Designed for Learning

QuantCraft teaches real market concepts through gameplay:

Supply & demand — Oversupply crashes prices. Scarcity lifts them.
Volatility — Some sectors swing wildly. Others are stable and boring.
Market cycles — Seasons shift between growth and contraction. Adapt or bleed.
Mean reversion — Prices tend to return toward fair value over time.
Risk management — Short selling can wipe you out. Diversification matters.
Market hours — No trading at night. Plan your moves.

You don't need to know any of this going in. You'll learn it by watching your portfolio.

Singleplayer & Multiplayer

In singleplayer, the Liquidity Bot and world events keep the market alive. In multiplayer, other players become the market — their mining, farming, and trading decisions move prices just like yours do. Server owners can tune volatility, tax rates, tick intervals, season length, and event pressure through Cloth Config.

Getting Started

Craft a Commodity Exchange (or locate an Investment Center in the wild).
Deposit items to earn your first Dollar Bills.
Find a Stock Exchange or run /qc prices close to one to see what's trading.
Buy your first stock. Watch it move.
Place a Quotron Terminal at home to track the market without walking back to town.

Configuration

All settings adjustable via Cloth Config / ModMenu:

Tax rate (default 2%)
Market tick interval
Volatility multiplier
Cocaine crafting toggle (enable/disable)

Requirements

Cloth Config
ModMenu (optional, for settings UI)

The market doesn't care about your feelings. Good luck out there.