Animal Control Job

Most civilian jobs on FiveM are a collect-and-deliver loop with a coat of paint. Animal control isn't. There's a six-step sequence that has to complete in order — report in at the NPC, rent the vehicle, locate the animal via tracking blip, place bait, wait for the animal to approach, then capture and return it. Skip a step, the job doesn't complete. That structure is the point: it's a proper job loop, not a farm route.

The Six-Step Job Loop

Players start at the Animal Ark NPC in Sandy Shores, which sets the tone — this isn't a Los Santos metro job, it has geography. From there, the sequence is enforced server-side at every stage:

• Check in at Animal Ark NPC — activates job session and vehicle rental with deposit

• Receive tracking blip — each animal has a habitat-specific spawn zone (desert fauna doesn't appear near the docks)

• Locate the animal — blip updates as you close in; no instant waypoint snap

• Place bait — animals won't approach without it; placement is the actual skill check

• Capture via crate — timed window after the animal is lured in

• Return to Animal Ark — payout calculated on animal type, condition, and deposit refund

Anti-Grief and Economy Protection

Server admins adding any paid job immediately ask two questions: can players break it, and can they farm it? Both are addressed here. If the animal dies during capture — hit by another player's vehicle, shot, whatever — the job cancels automatically. If the animal despawns due to streaming distance or server cleanup, same outcome. Players don't get paid for animals they didn't actually return. The payout is also per-animal-type rather than flat, so boars and hens don't yield the same money. Economy tuning is configurable in the config file, so you're not stuck with default numbers.

Animal Roster and Habitat Logic

The script ships with boars, cats, coyotes, multiple dog breeds, and hens. Each species spawns in terrain that matches it — coyotes appear in the hills and desert scrub, hens near farm areas, cats anywhere with enough cover. That habitat specificity means players are actively driving around the map rather than circling a single grind zone.

Performance and Compatibility

Resmon sits at 0.00ms at idle and 0.02ms when an animal is actively tracked — you won't see this in your server's performance profile under normal conditions. All capture validation runs server-side, which closes off the standard event injection exploits that break lighter civilian job implementations. Cross-player sync keeps animal state consistent across the session so two players can't capture the same animal independently.

Compatible with ESX, QBCore, and Qbox. No additional bridge scripts required — framework detection is handled internally.

Installation

1. Move the resource into your resources directory.
2. Add its ensure line to server.cfg.
3. Go through the config: the Animal Ark check-in point, the rental deposit, the habitat spawn zones and what each animal pays on return.
4. Restart the server and run the loop once — check in, rent, track, bait, capture, return — to confirm each stage unlocks the next.

Requirements

ESX, QBCore and Qbox servers are supported, and nothing else is listed as a dependency, so the job arrives without dragging other resources in behind it. The step order is enforced server-side, which means the anti-farm and anti-grief behaviour holds without a permissions resource layered on top.