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Paul Bailey 4640f5e577 M1a: survival core, pause menu, title screen and save/load

Design: docs/SURVIVAL_DESIGN.md (core loop, systems, architecture, phases).

Survival core (M1a):
- Items/recipes as data (data/*.json) in the addon SDK's define_item /
  define_recipe shape; procedural item meshes and offscreen-rendered icons
- Inventory class (40 slots, hotbar = row 1) shared by player and chests;
  click / right-click split / shift-click quick-move
- Actions autoload: the intent layer (craft, pickup, harvest_hit, place,
  transfer) that validates every change; becomes the RPC surface in M2
- Gathering: ground pickups (sticks, stones, flint); trees chopped with an
  axe fall and leave stumps; boulders mined with a pickaxe shrink per hit
- Crafting screen with station checks (workbench); placement mode with
  green/red ghost, rotation and overlap/slope validation
- Pieces: campfire (light, flames, embers), workbench, chest (16 slots)
- HUD: hotbar, held tool view model with swing, prompts, toasts

Menus and saving:
- ESC pause menu: resume, controls, fullscreen, mouse sensitivity, quit
- Title screen over a flyover of the island: Continue / New World (name +
  seed) / Load World (with delete) / Quit
- Saves autoload: one folder per world under user://worlds, atomic writes
  with a .bak; stores only player changes (player, pieces, chest contents,
  harvested resources, taken pickups) and regenerates the rest from the seed
- Autosave every 2 min, Save & Quit to title/desktop, save on window close

Fixes: UI screens now fill the viewport (were pinned top-left); title
backdrop no longer captures the mouse.

Tests: test_survival_core (31 checks), test_save_load (round trip + slots),
test_terrain_edges now checks 8 seeds for deep pits / unbanked water.

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Continuing on another machine

This project is a self-contained git repo. Everything needed to build and run is in it except Godot itself (which you install once per machine). No assets to download — the M0 world is generated in code.

1. Install Godot 4.3+

macOS / Windows / Linux: download the standard build (NOT the .NET/C# build — this project is pure GDScript) from https://godotengine.org/download
Use 4.7.x or newer 4.x. The project was upgraded to 4.7.2.stable (an older editor will warn that the project is from a newer version).
macOS shortcut: brew install --cask godot. If Homebrew can't unpack it, download the zip from the GitHub release page and move Godot.app to /Applications.

Tests

# Boundary: tries to walk/jump out of the valley in 24 directions
godot --headless --path . --fixed-fps 30 --script res://tests/test_boundary.gd
# Terrain: no deep pits / floating water at the boundary, across 8 seeds
godot --headless --path . --script res://tests/test_terrain_edges.gd
# Survival loop: inventory, crafting, chopping, mining, pickups, building, chests
godot --headless --path . --script res://tests/test_survival_core.gd
# Save/load round trip + world slots (uses user://test_worlds, not your saves)
godot --headless --path . --script res://tests/test_save_load.gd

Save files

Worlds are per machine, under ~/Library/Application Support/Godot/app_userdata/Valheimlike/worlds/ on macOS (%APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\Valheimlike\worlds\ on Windows). Copy a world's folder across to move it to another machine.

2. Get the project onto the machine

You have the folder (from the zip, or a git remote). Then:

# If you brought the .zip:
unzip valheimlike.zip
cd valheimlike

# If you use a git remote instead (recommended for ongoing work):
git clone <your-remote-url> valheimlike
cd valheimlike

3. Open / run it

# Open in the editor (first open rebuilds the local .godot cache — this is normal):
godot --path .            # or: open Godot, "Import", pick this folder's project.godot

# Run the game directly:
godot --path .

On macOS the binary inside the app is: /Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot --path .

Controls

WASD move · Mouse look · Shift sprint · Space jump · ESC frees the cursor.

Notes

The .godot/ cache folder is machine-local and git-ignored — it regenerates on first open. Don't copy it between machines.
If scripts look like they "didn't load", let the first editor open finish its import pass, then press play.
Where we are: M0 + M0.5 complete (detailed, bounded island valley). Next is M1 (gather → craft → build). See docs/ROADMAP.md.

Recommended: push to a git remote for cross-machine work

A zip is a one-time snapshot. For going back and forth between machines, create a private remote once and push:

# GitHub (private):  gh repo create valheimlike --private --source=. --push
# or any remote:
git remote add origin <your-remote-url>
git push -u origin main   # (branch may be 'master' — check `git branch`)

Then on each machine it's just git clone / git pull / git push.

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