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Introduction

🧠 What is it?

Surventory is the core of a fully modular inventory framework that’s currently in development.

At its heart, Surventory is built entirely around interfaces — there’s no fixed class hierarchy, no required base classes.

🚀 Why is it different?

A lot of inventory systems try to be everything from the start — bloated with features, overloaded with assumptions.

But every game is different, and that’s why Surventory focuses on the absolute essentials.

Instead of giving you a complex, rigid system, it delivers only the core features you actually need to build your own inventory system — clean, extensible, and easy to understand.

🧱 Modularity is Key

Interfaces are the key to true modularity, independence, and flexibility — allowing you to build your own systems and plugins on top of it, without having to strip away things you don’t need.

I like to think of good game architecture as a brick wall:
Every plugin or feature is a brick — simple, solid, self-contained.
The game code is the mortar — holding it all together and giving it meaning.

Consider Surventory as one of those bricks — just another brick in the wall or something to build more advanced systems on top.

📦 What's in the box?

🧩 Core Inventory Functions

  • Add item(s)
  • Remove item(s)
  • Remove a specific amount from a stack
  • Split stacks
  • Merge stacks
  • List all items
  • Remove all items

🔁 It also takes care of:

  • Network replication
  • Messaging (fully customizable/exchangeable message broker)
  • Configurable slot management (finite or infinite inventory)

🤔 Why Is That Enough?

To make sure unnecessary stuff doesn’t get in your way.

Weight systems, UI layers, categorization, drag & drop, or Action RPG style inventory grids — all of that is highly game-specific.
Should weight replace slots? Or combine with them? Should items be sorted by type, tags, or rarity? These aren’t core questions — they’re design choices.

Surventory doesn’t make that choice for you.

It gives you the foundation: reliable item logic, stack handling, messaging, and replication — and leaves the rest open for you to define.

🛠️ Do I Have to Build the Rest Myself?

Most likely? Yes. But that’s the reason we’re here, right?

Hopefully we’re not alone in this — keep reading and see where this could go. 😉

🌱 My Vision

I would love to see people build features on top of Surventory — and I absolutely plan to create more "bricks" myself, covering things like weight limits, UI tools, or equipment systems.

By supporting this project, you’re helping bring a truly modular inventory system and its extensions to life — and the best part is: you can test the full-featured core plugin today.

🧪 Try the Core – For Free

Keep supporting for more.

https://www.patreon.com/suricoon

Even the Free Tier gives you access to the demo build, so there’s nothing stopping you from giving it a spin. I’ve prepared a demo version that contains the full core functionality:

  • ✅ All features
  • ✅ Fully usable in Blueprints
  • ⚠️ The demo displays a small message window when launching the game or editor — this also appears in shipping builds
  • 🚫 Source code is not included

This version is intended for evaluation and prototyping — not for commercial or production use.

🛠️ How to Install the Surventory Demo Plugin (Engine-Wide)

To use the Surventory demo, the plugin must be installed in your Unreal Engine installation, not inside a specific project.

This makes the plugin available across all projects in your engine — just like a Marketplace plugin.

Installation Steps:

  1. Download the suitable attachment of the patreon post
  2. Close Unreal Engine if it’s currently running
  3. Locate your Unreal Engine installation directory
  4. Navigate to: Engine → Plugins → Marketplace
    (If the Marketplace folder doesn’t exist, create it)
  5. Extract the Surventory demo archive
  6. Copy the entire Surventory plugin folder into the Marketplace directory
  7. Restart Unreal Engine and open any project
  8. Go to Edit → Plugins, search for Surventory, and make sure it is enabled

After these steps, the plugin is ready to use in all of your UE5 projects (for demo purposes).

📚 Further Reading

Looking to get the most out of Surventory?
Here are a few ways to stay informed and dive deeper into the system:

  • 📖 Read the official documentation for technical insights, usage examples, and plugin architecture:
    👉 https://docs.suricoon.com

  • 💬 Join the community on Discord to ask questions, get early previews, and stay up to date with new releases:
    👉 https://discord.gg/5Bgj4mwzz9

Make sure to check back regularly — updates, new features, and additional plugin modules are planned.
This is just the beginning.

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