Godot Survival Core – Godot 4 survival crafting starter kit / template

Needs, gathering, inventory, crafting, base building and versioned saves – typed, tested, ready to extend.

Godot Survival Core: a Godot 4 survival crafting starter kit and project template in typed GDScript. Free MIT Lite on GitHub (48 headless tests), Pro €12.00 on itch.io (144 headless tests).

Get it

Lite (free, MIT): https://github.com/openclawaimac/godot-survival-core-lite – Hunger/thirst needs, day/night clock, slot inventory, data-driven hand crafting and gatherables as pure-logic, headless-testable systems. 48 tests.
Pro (€12.00 EUR, commercial EULA): https://huginhelm.itch.io/godot-survival-core – 144 passing headless tests, playable demo

Engine: Godot 4.7 (tested on 4.7.2) · Language: typed GDScript · Version 0.4.0 · Run tests: bash tools/run_tests.sh

Lite vs Pro

Feature	Lite (free, MIT)	Pro (€12.00, EULA)
SurvivalStats: hunger/thirst, starvation, regen	✅	✅
DayNightClock	✅	✅ + demo light tint and music crossfade
Inventory (slots, stacks)	✅	✅
RecipeBook (data-driven crafting)	✅ hand crafting	✅ + crafting stations
Gatherable resource nodes	✅	✅
BuildGrid + BaseBuilder (near-X rules, storage, stations)	–	✅
SaveGame (versioned JSON, migrations) + WorldNodes	–	✅
Content data (content.json)	Small sample	✅ full set
Playable demo: controller, HUD, inventory grid, crafting & chest UI, placement ghost	Minimal example scene	✅
Art + music (Ninja Adventure, Kenney – CC0)	–	✅
Headless tests	Lite subset	✅ 144 checks
Licence	MIT	Commercial EULA (per seat)

Features (Pro)

SurvivalStats: hunger/thirst drain, starvation damage, regeneration, died signal
DayNightClock: time of day, phases, day_started, light_level(); demo day/night tint and music crossfade
Inventory with slot and stack limits, atomic remove_all, set_count, take_all
RecipeBook: data-driven recipes with optional crafting-station tag
BaseBuilder + StructureDef: grid placement with "near X" rules, storage containers, crafting stations, craft_near
Gatherable resource nodes with hits, depletion and respawn
SaveGame: versioned JSON save, migration hooks, atomic write; WorldNodes makes spawned children savable
Pure-logic systems with manual tick/advance – everything testable headless
Playable demo: top-down movement with collision, 4-direction walk animation, HUD need bars, inventory grid, crafting panel, chest UI, mouse placement with green/red ghost
All demo content (items, recipes, structures, resource nodes, sounds, needs) is data in content.json

Not included

No combat, enemies or night raids
No temperature, tool durability, farming or tech tree
1-cell structures, no rotation; removal does not refund
No multiplayer; saves are plain JSON
Tested headless on Godot 4.7.2 (plus scripted headless-Chrome run of the web export); real browsers/devices not tested

Preview

Screenshots

Assets & licence

Ninja Adventure by Pixel-boy & AAA (most art + music) and Kenney (sfx, icons) – all CC0.

Lite is free under the MIT License. Pro is sold under a commercial per-seat EULA: you can ship unlimited commercial and non-commercial games; you may not resell or redistribute the kit's source or assets as a template. Bundled art/audio is CC0.

Code and docs written with AI coding agents. Machine-readable summary: llms.txt.