Miner, Gather Node & Sell Ore

Description

An ESX miner job: stand on the mining node and press E to swing a timed pickaxe animation and receive 1-3 ore as a real inventory item, then carry it to the smelter and press E to sell the whole stack. A gather-then-sell economy loop for resource-gathering servers.

Prompt Template

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

Expected Output

The reference Lua lives at content/expected-outputs/jobs/07-miner-gather-node-sell.lua. It implements a timed mining animation that grants ore server-side and a smelter sale priced off the real…

Known Failure Modes

• Hot idle loop, checking the node on Wait(0) even when far away wastes a whole thread. Drop to Wait(500) when out of range.
• Client-granted items, adding ore on the client invites dupe exploits. Grant via addInventoryItem on the server only.
• Phantom sale, paying a fixed amount without reading getInventoryItem(...).count pays for ore the player never had. Read the real count, remove it, then pay.
• No job gate, gate miner:mineOre on job.name == "miner".

Integration Notes

• Split the banners into client.lua and server.lua; list both in fxmanifest.lua.
• Requires es_extended, a miner job, and an ore item registered in your inventory/items table.
• Test on a dev server: set yourself to miner, stand on the node, press E to mine, then sell at the smelter and confirm money and inventory update.

Profit Potential

$350-$5000/mo on Tebex (expected ~$1300), priced inside the $50-389 script band against a corpus of comparable Tebex sellers (median ~$11.85K/mo), scaled for a hot job-systems niche at intermediate difficulty, evergreen gather-and-sell economy demand.

Trend Signal

🔥 hot, custom FiveM job systems = niche-selection LAUNCH #1 (4.75).

Sales Angle

Position as the dupe-proof gather loop: server-granted ore and a smelter sale priced off the real inventory count. A drop-in for any resource-economy server, list at $99.

Difficulty & Ship Time

intermediate · ships in 4-8h.