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Vending Machine Empire

ESX passive-business script where players buy, place, restock and collect revenue from a fleet of vending machines, all ownership and cash server-validated.

NON-TESTÉ — the reference Lua is syntax-validated, not run in a live FiveM server. Adapt and test on your own dev server before shipping.
Est. Lua
~110 loc
Claude
Claude Opus 4.x / Sonnet 4.x
Validation
syntax-validated
Updated
2026-06-25

Description

A passive-business script for roleplay servers: a player buys a vending machine, places it anywhere in the world, restocks it, and walks away while it quietly earns. The owner returns later to collect the accumulated vault — the empire-builder loop that keeps idle players logged in and spending.

Prompt Template

You are writing a FiveM resource for esextended (stable, exports getSharedObject).

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The full prompt template and its reference Lua are part of a one-time pack. Pick your depth — both are lifetime access, no subscription, ever.

Core$49one-time
  • 60 prompts + syntax-validated reference Lua
  • Lifetime access — pay once
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Vault$199one-time
  • All 510 prompts — the full library
  • Per-prompt profit/trend intelligence (CSV + playbook)
  • Lifetime free updates — new niches as the market moves
Get the Vault — $199

$49 for 60 · $199 for all 510 + intelligence — one-time, no subscription.

Expected Output

The reference Lua at content/expected-outputs/business/13-vending-machine-empire.lua implements buy → placement marker → restock anim → server-owned 60s accrual loop → collect, with the vault and all…

🔒 Eyes-only — locked prompt body

The full prompt template and its reference Lua are part of a one-time pack. Pick your depth — both are lifetime access, no subscription, ever.

Core$49one-time
  • 60 prompts + syntax-validated reference Lua
  • Lifetime access — pay once
Most Popular · Best Value
Vault$199one-time
  • All 510 prompts — the full library
  • Per-prompt profit/trend intelligence (CSV + playbook)
  • Lifetime free updates — new niches as the market moves
Get the Vault — $199

$49 for 60 · $199 for all 510 + intelligence — one-time, no subscription.

Known Failure Modes & Corrective Prompt

  • Client-trusted vault — Claude may grow/pay the vault on the client; it has no authority there. The accrual loop and addMoney must live in the server section only.
  • Anim skip — TaskPlayAnim without RequestAnimDict + the wait-for-load loop T-poses on a cold cache.
  • Unregistered placement event — vending:confirmPlace without RegisterNetEvent on the server drops the round-trip and never stores the machine.

Corrective re-prompt: Move the entire accrual loop and every addMoney/removeMoney into the server section; never let the client compute or send the vault total. Add RequestAnimDict("mini@repair") with while not HasAnimDictLoaded("mini@repair") do Wait(0) end before TaskPlayAnim, and confirm every server-side handler is wrapped in RegisterNetEvent.

Framework Integration

ESX: exports['es_extended']:getSharedObject(), xPlayer.getMoney()/addMoney/removeMoney, xPlayer.identifier for ownership. QBCore: swap to exports['qb-core']:GetCoreObject(), Player.PlayerData.money.cash, Player.Functions.AddMoney/RemoveMoney, Player.PlayerData.citizenid as the owner key. QBox: use exports.qbx_core:GetPlayer(src) and the qbx_core money exports; identical ownership/vault logic.

Profit Potential

$250–$3500/mo on Tebex (expected ~$900). [INFERRED] priced inside the $50-389 standalone-script band against the signal-scraper corpus (tebex_snapshot n=100, median seller $11.85K/mo) for a rising passive-business niche.

Trend Signal

↗ rising — inferred: Passive placeable-revenue businesses inferred rising from idle/empire-builder RP demand.

Sales Angle

Position as the idle/empire passive-income layer no economy server ships by default — players keep logging in to restock and collect. Recommended Tebex price: $89.

Difficulty & Ship Time

intermediate · ships in 1 day.