# Survival Crafting

Build a survival-crafting game: resource gathering, inventory, crafting and a tech...

- Repository: https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills (6445 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-28
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill survival-crafting -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill survival-crafting -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill survival-crafting -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill survival-crafting -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills`

## Description

Build a survival-crafting game: resource gathering, inventory, crafting and a tech tree, needs (hunger/thirst/temperature), and base building. Use for a survival or crafting/base-building game.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Survival Crafting

A playbook for survival-crafting games, the gather → craft → build loop, survival needs, the
crafting/tech progression, and base building. This is a **compositional** skill: it orchestrates
inventory data, world content, persistence, and threats. It does not re-teach those primitives;
it defines the loop and the pressure systems (needs, scarcity, escalation) that make survival
tense rather than tedious.

## When to use

- Use when the player **gathers resources, crafts items/structures, manages survival needs, and
  builds a base** against escalating threats: survival sandbox, crafting/base-building game.
- Use when designing needs (hunger/thirst/temperature), a crafting tech tree, gathering loops,
  or base placement/building.

**When *not* to use:** crafting as a minor RPG feature → `rpg`. Permadeath grid dungeon →
`roguelike`. For inventory/items as data assets, use `godot-resources` /
`unity-scriptableobjects`; for world generation, `procedural-gen`.

## Core loop

**Gather raw resources → craft tools/items → build and upgrade a base → manage survival needs
→ explore farther for better resources → survive escalating threats → repeat at a higher tier.**
Each loop should unlock the *next* loop (better tools → reach new biomes → new resources →
better crafts). When that ladder breaks, the game becomes a grind.

## Must-have systems

The rest: https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/genres/survival-crafting/SKILL.md