Resource Gathering and Crafting in Survival Games

Add survival-oriented gameplay to your projects by mastering the mechanics surrounding item resources. Starting from a Unity project with a player and inventory set up, you’ll learn essential techniques to allow players to gather resources from their surroundings, as well as how to create a crafting system that makes use of game items. Not only will you gain expandable skills with systems that can easily be reused elsewhere, but also enhance your survival game projects with rewarding and robust item functionality.

You will learn how to:

Implement equipable items
Create item animations for first-person cameras
Allow resources to be gathered from trees and rocks
Set up a simple crafting UI
Use Scriptable Objects for crafting recipes
Trigger crafting mechanics with a crafting table

… and more!

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Frameworks and tools covered: Unity 2020.1

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