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Fisherman — Catch Loop & Market Sell

ESX fisherman job: cast near water for a weighted random catch, then sell the haul at the fish market.

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
~106 loc
Claude
Claude Opus 4.x / Sonnet 4.x
Validation
syntax-validated
Updated
2026-06-25

Description

An ESX fisherman job: /fish near water plays a casting animation, waits a random reel time, and grants a server-rolled weighted catch (common trout to rare shark). Bring the haul to the fish market and press E to sell every fish in inventory. A relaxed gather-and-sell economy loop.

Prompt Template

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

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Expected Output

The reference Lua lives at content/expected-outputs/jobs/08-fisherman-catch-loop-market.lua. It implements a near-water cast with a server-side weighted catch and a market sale that totals every fish…

🔒 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

  • Fish on dry land — without a real GetWaterHeight check players fish anywhere. Require proximity to water before allowing a cast.
  • Client-side roll — rolling the catch client-side lets a cheater force the shark every time. Roll on the server.
  • Flat randomness — a plain math.random(#FISH_TABLE) makes rare fish as common as junk. Use a weighted cumulative roll.
  • No job gate — gate fisher:catch on job.name == "fisherman".

Integration Notes

  • Split the banners into client.lua and server.lua; list both in fxmanifest.lua.
  • Requires es_extended, a fisherman job, and the fish items registered in your inventory/items table.
  • Test on a dev server: set yourself to fisherman, stand by the docks, /fish a few times, then sell at the market and confirm the payout matches the catch.

Profit Potential

$400–$5500/mo on Tebex (expected ~$1400). [INFERRED] priced inside the $50-389 script band against the signal-scraper tebex_snapshot corpus (median seller $11.85K/mo, n=100), scaled for a hot job-systems niche at intermediate difficulty — fishing is a popular low-stress roster-filler.

Trend Signal

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

Sales Angle

Position as the cozy-grind fishing job: a server-rolled weighted catch (junk to shark) and a market sale that totals every stack. A popular low-stress job that fills server rosters — list at $109.

Difficulty & Ship Time

intermediate · ships in 1 day.