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Why do survival systems always turn into spaghetti?

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. So I stopped patching it and rebuilt it as a...