ALIVE Framework — Survival, Progression & Shared Systems

⚙️ ACTIVELY IN DEVELOPMENT. Updated often, so expect changes and a few rough edges. Found a bug or want something? Post it in the comments or Discussions. Thanks for playing it while it grows.

🔥 ALIVE Framework

Turn Sandbox into a persistent survival RPG. Your character, money, inventory, standing and progress save between sessions. You earn what you carry.

🆕 New in this update

• 👊 Normal fists. ALIVE now gives you GMod's own fists. Press R to lower your arms (no punching), R again to raise them. Everyone sees your hands down.
• 🎡 TFA-VOX wheel, ALIVE style. With TFA-VOX installed, its callout wheel now has the ALIVE look. Prefer the original? Turn it off in Q → Utilities → ALIVE settings.
• 🎙️ Voice on the weapon wheel. Hold Left Alt, press R past your guns: the last page is your callouts. With G-Voice (or M-Voice) installed, release on one and everyone hears it.
• 🥋 Your own model stays. Picking another player model (GMod's menu or a model selector) now takes your ALIVE outfit off, so you respawn in your model. The outfit stays yours to WEAR again.
• 🌱 Farm plants sit on the soil. Microgreens and other crop cards no longer float above the planter.
• 🗨️ Talk UI cleaned up. Leave is always X (bottom-right), shorter option bar, unique keys (Heat and Crops no longer both use S).
• 🏃 Sprint while holding S. Backpedal sprint works the same as running forward.
• 🎯 Crosshair off by default. Toggle under Q → Utilities → Mercury Mods → HUD & UI, or [code]alive_crosshair 1[/code].
• 🏃 Run and gun looks natural. Hip-fire while moving: face and torso turn a little with the gun arm.
• 🛠 Holster draw loop fixed. Putting a gun away no longer freezes the game (PostPlayerDraw crash loop).
• 🔫 Holstered guns stay on your hip. No more floating guns from other packs when put away.
• 🎒 Holster any gun. Press H — stock, TFA, ArcCW, ARC9, CW 2.0, M9K, MW Base. Long guns on your back, pistols on the thigh.
• 🔫 Run and gun. Third person, run with S and fire: keep running, chest twists, gun arm aims. Right-click aims. Body leans into turns.
• 🗣️ Men sound like men. NPC voices match the face they wear.
• 🏠 No more NPCs on roofs, and no two NPCs share a face.
• 🎒 Skyrim-style inventory with a live player model; eating keeps the mouse up.
• 🛒 SUPPLIES is just supplies; guns have their own tabs; S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 food/drinks/medicine on a shelf.
• 🏃 Sprinting costs you (water/rest/food drain faster). Hosts can change it.
• 🧭 Pick your HUD: [code]alive_hud_style compass[/code], [code]corner[/code] or [code]plain[/code].

🔜 Coming next

• 💧 A thirst meter on every plant, and weeds that eat your crop unless you pull them.
• 🌡️ Body temperature that follows the host's climate, shelter, fire and rain.
• 🧱 LimbSplat's settlement building joined to your ALIVE base.

🔁 Last updates

• 🌱 FARMING: TAB → SETTLEMENT → FARM, seeds from Trader 07, water with a Water Bottle, golden harvests, streaks and farm levels 1-5.
• 👒 CLOTHES store: 16 hats, a gas mask and 17 outfits from base GMod and HL2, with a turning try-on. Everyone sees what you wear.
• 🤝 PARTY (TAB → PARTY or P, up to 4): shared jobs, kills and pay, no friendly fire.
• 🗨️ Talk to Trader 07 (E, then W A S D): Store, Reputation, Escort, Lose the heat.
• 🏠 SETTLEMENT and BASE: grow a Camp to Shack, House and Compound. 🧟 WAVES Call of Duty Zombies style. 🚶 Street encounters, bounties, cooking and a Gun ATM.

★ Version 2: Q is a store

🛒 Nothing in the spawn menu is free. Props, guns, entities, NPCs and vehicles cost money. Near Trader 07's stall you pay his price, anywhere else double. Every icon shows its price: red means you can't afford it, a grey lock means it isn't for sale. Hold Q or press F1.

💾 Updating keeps your wallet, guns, level and reputation. Want free Sandbox back? Hosts type [code]alive_store 0[/code].

• ⭐ Reputation matters. Five ranks, NOTORIOUS to LEGEND. Heroes pay less, outlaws more, the NOTORIOUS triple. Police, citizens and jobs follow your name.
• 🪢 Bodies hang and swing. Hold E on a corpse to carry it, and sell it at Trader 07's counter.
• 📻 He talks about what you buy, out loud at his stall or over the radio.
• 🌅 The wake-up: a few slow blinks on join and respawn. Space skips it.
• 🔒 Money exploits closed. Buy and sell back never profits, undo never refunds.

📦 What is included

• 🍖 Survival: food, water and rest; eating, cooking, campfires and sleeping.
• 📈 Progression: XP, levels, money, reputation, wanted level, skills and a saved inventory.
• 💰 Trader 07: a voice, a counter (SUPPLIES, SELL, JOBS, WAVES, BASE), escort for hire, remote comms and a workbench.
• 🌍 World play: loot corpses, harvest animals, sell bodies, craft, take jobs, discover places.
• 🛏️ Mercury Core + Mercury Rest built in: the shared clock and sleep.

🚀 Start here

• 📖 The Field Manual opens on your first spawn. Its SETUP page has the main switches.
• 🧍 Find Trader 07 near your spawn and press E. The map (M) marks him after.
• 🧼 Bad name? Most jobs raise your reputation, and every zombie, headcrab, antlion or Combine you put down is +1.