VanityRP
Player Guides
This guide gives new players a clean path from first spawn to licenses, jobs, businesses, robberies, and deeper progression systems, all in one place.
If you are brand new to the city, start here and work your way through the sections in order. It is built to help you understand the systems without needing to guess what comes next.
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How To Use This Guide
Start with your wallet, City Hall, and the DMV. After that, move into legal money routes, careers, businesses, crime, and drug progression as your character grows. Some illegal progression is meant to be discovered through roleplay, contacts, and time in the city, so not every hidden path is listed publicly.
This guide avoids hidden dealer and black market locations on purpose. Some illegal progression is meant to be discovered through roleplay, contacts, and time in the city.
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First Steps
1.1✦What To Do First
Learn your inventory, your third eye, and your radial menu. Check your wallet, visit City Hall, get your driver license, and start with a legal money route before jumping into bigger goals.
1.2✦Best Starter Mindset
The city rewards players who build step by step. Focus on paperwork, transportation, income, and connections first. That foundation makes everything else easier later.
Licenses & City Services
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Your Wallet
1.1✦Check Your Documents
Use /wallet to check your personal information and document status. It is the fastest way to confirm your identity and see which licenses your character currently has.
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City Hall
2.1✦Starter Jobs
City Hall is one of the first places you should visit. It acts as a public hub for early services and starter work. Current public jobs include Trucker, Taxi, Tow Truck, News Reporter, Garbage Collector, and Bus Driver.
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Driver License
3.1✦DMV Test Flow
Getting your driver license includes a written test, a driving test, a fee of $1,500, and a supplied vehicle for the road test. Speed and control matter during the driving route.
3.2✦Why It Matters
Your driver license is one of the first real milestones in VanityRP. It gives you a natural early goal and prepares you for jobs, travel, and daily life around the map.
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Other Licenses
4.1✦Weapon License
The weapon license includes a safety exam, a shooting test, and a fee of $10,000. Passing it grants your firearm license and unlocks crosshair access for licensed civilians. Police can seize it if roleplay or charges justify it.
4.2✦Hunting License
The hunting license costs $5,000, is paid from bank, and lasts 7 days. It is a timed permit, not a permanent unlock.
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Most Important Controls
5.1✦Core Controls
- F2 / K open inventory or nearby storage
- TAB open inventory quickly
- LALT use your third eye
- Z open the radial menu
- F11 change voice range
- F4 open the emote menu
- U put your hands up
- F9 open the city guide
- F7 open billing
Making Money
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Best Early Legal Routes
1.1✦Good Starter Work
The easiest legal money routes for new players are Garbage work, Tow work, Fishing, the Pawn Shop, and the Scrapyard. These systems give you reliable income while you learn how the server works.
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Garbage & Tow
2.1✦Garbage Work
Garbage is one of the most beginner-friendly jobs on the server. You pay the truck deposit, follow your route, collect trash from assigned stops, finish properly, and collect your pay. The truck deposit is $250.
2.2✦Tow Work
Tow work is another strong early option if you enjoy driving. Pick up the tow truck, locate the assigned vehicle, transport it back, and get paid through the job system while building job reputation.
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Fishing, Pawn Shop & Scrapyard
3.1✦Fishing
Fishing is one of the deeper legal systems in VanityRP. It includes regular fishing, bait and lure progression, hotspot fishing, treasure hunting, crab traps, nets, cooking, selling, boats, and rod upgrades.
3.2✦Pawn Shop
The Pawn Shop is one of the best places to turn valuables into fast money. Some items can be sold directly, while others may be worth keeping for materials instead of immediate cash.
3.3✦Scrapyard
The Scrapyard is useful for players who like material-based income. Bring in one of the wanted vehicles, scrap it, and receive useful materials instead of direct cash.
Whitelisted Jobs & Career Paths
These jobs are different from starter city jobs. They usually involve departments, shared equipment, duty systems, and more responsibility during live scenes.
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Police
1.1✦What Police Do
Police is one of the most structured career paths in the city. It fits players who enjoy patrol work, traffic stops, criminal investigations, pursuit scenes, robbery response, and high-pressure public interaction.
1.2✦Typical Police Shift
A normal shift means going on duty, gearing up from department storage, taking out a patrol vehicle, and responding to calls, suspicious activity, or active scenes. Police also use tools like radar, surveillance, evidence systems, and offender processing.
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EMS
2.1✦What EMS Do
EMS is one of the most community-focused jobs in VanityRP. It is built around emergency response, medical scenes, helping injured players, patient transport, and hospital-side roleplay.
2.2✦Typical EMS Shift
A normal shift usually means going on duty, using EMS tools and menus, taking an ambulance from the hospital garage, answering calls for help, moving patients with stretchers, and bringing them in for treatment when needed.
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Mechanic & News
3.1✦Mechanic
Mechanic is a strong legal career path for players who enjoy shop roleplay, repairs, upgrades, customer interaction, and building a reputation through service.
3.2✦Reporter / News
Reporter is a social career path built around interviews, event coverage, public storytelling, and community scenes. It is not the strongest money route, but it is excellent for players who enjoy being around people and public events.
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Leadership Roles
4.1✦Boss & Management Systems
Some whitelisted jobs and businesses also include leadership roles. That can mean hiring staff, removing staff, setting ranks, managing access, and keeping track of who is actually active.
Vehicles & Businesses
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Buying A Vehicle
1.1✦Financing Matters
Vehicles are meant to feel important. You can buy them outright or finance them, but financed vehicles come with payment responsibility. If you miss enough payments, you can lose the vehicle.
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Dealership Life
2.1✦More Than Buying Cars
The dealership side of the server includes more than purchases. Players can also get involved in sales work, deliveries, finance-related progression, employee roles, and commission-based work.
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Player-Owned Businesses
3.1✦Long-Term Goal
Businesses are one of the biggest long-term goals in VanityRP. They support actual roleplay and real economic activity, not just ownership on paper.
3.2✦Current Business Details
- Players can own up to 2 businesses
- Neglected businesses can go back up for sale
- Closed businesses can be lost if not maintained
- Selling a business returns 50% of the original price
3.3✦Business Features
Business ownership can include supply storage, staff access, private storage, a public shop, employee management, and custom item listings. Current upgrade costs for supply setup, wardrobe setup, private stash setup, and shop setup are $5,000 each.
Crime & Robberies
Crime on VanityRP is designed as progression, not instant free money. Bigger payouts usually come after better preparation, better gear, and better planning.
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Starter Robberies
1.1✦Store Robberies
Store robberies are one of the easier starting routes. The usual flow is hitting the registers, working toward the linked safe, using the right tools, and getting out before the city reacts.
1.2✦House Robberies
House robbery is more item-gated and more loot-focused. Players should expect burglary tools, planning, and rewards like valuables, useful items, materials, or stash-type finds depending on the house.
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Bank & Heist Progression
2.1✦Fleeca
Fleeca is one of the clearest step-up robberies on the server. Players should expect an access card to start, hacking, a drill for certain parts, and a more serious reward flow than starter robberies.
2.2✦Union & Pacific
Union and Pacific are more organized crew-level jobs. Players should expect higher setup requirements, more pressure, better rewards, and more punishment for poor planning.
2.3✦Jewelry, Art & Trucks
Jewelry is a fast-paced grab-and-go style robbery, while art robbery is more of a steal-and-move-goods job. VanityRP also supports mobile criminal content like armored truck hits and vehicle-related theft work.
Drugs & Street Progression
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Street Side Progression
1.1✦Hidden Dealers & Reputation
Some of the street-side drug game is built around reputation. You do not get everything at once, your access improves over time, and some of the path is meant to be discovered through roleplay and contacts rather than handed out publicly.
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Growing & Raw Materials
2.1✦Weed Growing
Weed growing is a long-term cultivation loop. Players manage where they plant, water, fertilizer, growth time, and harvesting tools. Growth takes time, there is a plant limit per player, and poor upkeep gives worse results.
2.2✦Raw Gathering
Some drug progression begins with collecting raw materials in the world, including harvested plants, liquids, and field resources. Not every route starts at a lab or dealer.
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Cocaine
3.1✦Production Flow
- Collect coca leaves.
- Collect cement.
- Use the pit to turn leaves and cement into coca blend.
- Take coca blend and gasoline to the barrel to make coca paste.
- Take coca paste and acid to the firepit to finish the final product.
3.2✦Why It Matters
Coca leaves are only the beginning. The real value comes from learning the full production order, stockpiling properly, and moving through every stage without wasting materials or getting caught.
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Oxy & Meth
4.1✦Oxy Runs
Oxy runs are one of the cleaner active crime loops for smaller crews or solo players. The usual flow is paying the start cost, making multiple drop-offs, dealing with police risk, and earning dirty money or additional product along the way.
4.2✦Meth
Meth is one of the more advanced criminal systems on the server. It is not designed for fresh arrivals. Players should expect a mobile setup, ingredients, timing, heat and purity management, and the constant risk of being discovered.
New Player Tips
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Best First-Day Route
1.1✦Simple Path
Spawn somewhere central, learn your inventory and wallet, visit City Hall, get your driver license, and run a legal money route before rushing into bigger goals.
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Good Habits
2.1✦Do Not Rush Your First Car
A stable income matters more than your first vehicle. Cars are useful, but if you cannot support yourself, that vehicle becomes stress instead of progress.
2.2✦Learn Public Systems First
The systems that help most in your early sessions are your wallet, City Hall, the DMV, legal jobs, the Pawn Shop, the Scrapyard, and Fishing. They teach you how VanityRP is built.
2.3✦Treat Crime Like A Path
Crime is more fun when you grow into it. If you jump straight into endgame robberies with no city knowledge, you usually end up confused, broke, or caught.
2.4✦Not Everything Is Public
Some content is intentionally hidden, including certain dealer paths, black market progression, and deeper illegal knowledge. That mystery is part of what makes the city rewarding over time.
If you ever feel lost, come back to the basics: get your paperwork in order, find work, meet people, and build a routine. That is how the best long-term characters usually start.