Modular survival systems for Unreal Engine developers

SurvivalNeeds Plugin is a data-driven Unreal Engine plugin that adds modular health, hunger, and thirst systems to any character. It includes Blueprint-ready APIs, runtime events, configurable drain/regen logic, starvation and dehydration damage, fall damage, and a shared config asset. It also ships with C++ base classes so developers can extend it with custom systems like oxygen, stamina, sanity, or temperature. (Examples provided in the documentation)

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I built SurvivalNeeds because I got tired of survival mechanics becoming a pile of tightly coupled logic halfway through development. Health, hunger, thirst, regen, damage, warnings, timers - it all works at first, then turns into a maintenance tax. So I rebuilt it as a modular Unreal Engine plugin with a single public component, data-driven config, Blueprint-ready delegates, and separate internal systems for health, hunger, and thirst. The goal was simple: make something usable in a real game, not just something that looks tidy in a marketplace screenshot. It already supports passive regen, fall damage, starvation, dehydration, runtime control, and clean extension in C++ for new systems like oxygen or stamina. Would genuinely love feedback from other Unreal developers - especially anyone building survival, sim, or systemic gameplay. The fun part of these systems is never the first version. It’s surviving version five without wanting to launch your monitor out the window.

I ve been working on a survival system for Unreal Engine and ran into the same problem I ve hit before:

Health, hunger, thirst, regen, damage, timers it all starts clean, then slowly becomes tightly coupled and painful to extend.

You tweak one system -> something else breaks.

You add a new mechanic -> suddenly everything depends on everything.