Factorio Dashboard Exporter streams live factory statistics to a second-screen dashboard — without stalling the game.

Why it exists

The usual way to pull data out of Factorio is RCON /silent-command. Every poll runs the whole query inside a single game tick: on a large modded base that means walking hundreds of thousands of entities several times a minute, all in one tick. The result is stutter.

This mod inverts the arrangement. It keeps its own view of the factory, updates it a little bit every tick under a hard budget, and hands out finished snapshots. Reading the data costs nothing, because by then there is nothing left to compute.

What it collects

• Power: grids, satisfaction, accumulators, biggest producers and consumers
• Machines: status per recipe — running, waiting for ingredients, output full
• Production & consumption per item and fluid, with deficit, ratio and trend
• Ore patches: remaining amount, depletion estimate, drill coverage
• Trains: trains by state, station queues, goods carried (provider/requester stations)
• Logistics: robots, logistic-network and container inventories
• Research: running technology, queue, science-pack throughput
• Problems: detected bottlenecks with suggested fixes, alerts, stalled entities
• Fluids and tanks; optional container scan
• Space Age: platforms and orbital requests

Output

Snapshots are written to script-output/fdash/ as rotating files (read via index.json, so a reader can never catch a half-written file) and are also available over RCON. The companion dashboard (ASP.NET Core API + React frontend) and an MCP server let you browse the data — or have an AI plan production and diagnose bottlenecks.

Performance

• Hard per-tick entity budget (default 400, configurable) — the UPS cost stays where you put it
• Entity lists maintained from build events — no repeated full-surface scans
• Rolling ore scan, a few chunks per tick
• Internally consistent snapshots: each collector publishes only when a full pass completes

Links

• Homepage / source: https://github.com/boehla/factorio-dashboard
• License: MIT