The best RedM scripts for a new server, by what you actually need

Most new RedM servers install too many scripts and too few systems. A system is something players return to every session: a way to earn, a reason to fear the law, an activity to fill an evening. This guide works through the five needs a roleplay server has, says which script we run for each on Rosewood Ridge, and points at the free option where one exists.

1. An economy players run themselves

The default framework shops are NPC vendors with fixed prices. The step up is letting players own the shop. Poggy Markets ($99) gives a player a storefront, per-item pricing, staff with permissions and a dashboard of what actually sells. Its optional supply-and-demand module moves prices with what players do, and the commodities exchange lets players speculate on those prices. It runs on VORP Core, RSG Core, QBCore and RedEM:RP with oxmysql as the only requirement.

Pair it with Auction House ($29.99) if you want a player-to-player market as well: listings with bids and buyouts at four auction houses, a catalogue of 74 raw goods, and a want-request board for buy orders. Orders can be delivered straight into a Poggy Markets shop. Auction House is VORP only.

Free alternative: VORP ships a basic store resource and RSG has rsg-shops; both are NPC shops with fixed prices. For a player-owned market with no budget, search the Cfx.re forum releases for "player shop RedM"; expect to do the balancing yourself.

2. A reason to fear the law

Crime with no witnesses is just griefing. Witnesses (from $6.99/mo) makes NPCs see shootings, brawls, lassoing, hijacking and trampling, flee, and report to on-duty police or sheriff players with blips and alerts. Trigger chances, cooldowns and which towns count are all in the config, so you can keep prison and warzone areas quiet. It hooks into vorp_core and vorp_inventory or rsg_core.

Free alternative: there is no free native witness system we know of. Some servers approximate it with a wanted-level script; it punishes crime but does not create the chase.

3. Something to do on a quiet night

Activities keep players logged in when nothing is happening. Two we run:

• Poggy Fishing ($69.99): a five-phase, skill-based fishing system with 32 species, more than 25 water zones, two rod playstyles, bait and seasons. VORP only, and it depends on the free Poggy Skillcheck (Free).
• Poggy's Supply Drops (from $3.99/mo): crates that parachute in at random and timed scavenger hunts with riddles. Server-side timers run the events, and Discord webhooks announce them. VORP only.

Poggy's Balloon Taxi ($8.99) and Poggy Trash Bins ($8.99) are smaller, cheaper additions in the same spirit: a balloon taxi and rental system from eight stations, and searchable bins with loot and shared stashes.

Free alternative: VORP's own fishing and hunting resources are on GitHub and cover the basics with a progress bar. Good enough to start; upgrade when players ask for depth.

4. Roleplay tools

These are cheap and used every session. Poggy Scenes ($9.99) adds world-anchored scene text, status labels over a character, overhead /me and /do, and a message box that collects nearby emotes. Poggy Badges ($20) lets law and medical roles wear a job-locked 3D badge and flash it with a pocket-watch animation; it runs on every framework. Poggy Transform ($9.99) lets players become any of 90 animals or people with their own attacks and emotes, which is more useful for events than it sounds.

For storage, Poggy Storage (Free) is free and open source: player-owned containers that persist through restarts and can be shared with named players or a whole job.

5. Not losing the server

Nothing on this list matters if the database is gone. Server Controller (from $2.99/mo) is a Windows app, not a resource: it runs scheduled mysqldump and file backups with retention and one-click restore, updates txAdmin hands-free, and lets you manage the server from home. It works with any FiveM or RedM server because it runs beside it. There is a free tier.

Free alternative: a Windows Task Scheduler job running mysqldump nightly. It works, right up until the day the disk it writes to is the disk that failed.

Buying it all at once

If you want more than two or three of these, All Access is the cheaper route: every script above plus future releases and Server Controller for $12.99 a month, against $347.91 for the 11 paid scripts bought separately. It is a subscription, so access ends if you cancel; buy a script outright if you want to own it.

Before you install anything

Read how to install a RedM script first. Most support requests we get are start order and a missing dependency, and both take a minute to check.