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ForgeCore (vf_core)

Name: ForgeCore (vf_core)
Brand: Vice Drip
SKU: vf_core

The foundation your city should trust before anything else runs.

Before the money moves, before the garage saves, before the jobs pay out, there is the layer underneath it all. ForgeCore is the bridge that keeps your city from being trapped inside one framework forever. It is quiet on purpose. It does not try to be the star of the server — it makes everything else safer to run.

ForgeCore key art — three steel channels merging into one machined spine under cyan edge light

The short answer

ForgeCore is the free, fully open Vice Drip framework bridge for FiveM servers. It helps resources work across Qbox, QBCore, and ESX Legacy environments without locking your city to one framework's internals. It ships unescrowed, so you can audit every line before trusting anything that runs on it — which is exactly what we suggest you do, with ours and with anyone's.

Trust receipts

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Performance · measured

resmon idle: [measured-pending]resmon active: [measured-pending]

Qbox + ox_lib · NativeQBCore · CompatESX Legacy · BridgeStandalone · Yes

Declared support — exact tested versions publish with the release QA matrix.

What you can read · escrow

100% unescrowed — audit everything you run.

File-level manifest published.

Support · SLA

First response <24h
S1 hotfix <12h
free updates within major version

v1.5.0 · updated 2026-09-02

What it does

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VF.Bridge — one normalized player, job, money and permission API over Qbox, QBCore, ESX Legacy and standalone, resolved once at boot

VF.DB — parameterized-only oxmysql wrapper with transactions, slow-query visibility, and a strict tri-state API so a failed query is distinguishable from an empty one

VF.RateLimit, VF.Validate, VF.Log — per-player token buckets, hardened net-event argument checks, and an audit ring buffer with an optional Discord webhook

VF.Callback, VF.UI, VF.L — validated client-to-server RPC, notify/progress/text UI with ox_lib passthrough and native fallbacks, and a JSON locale system

VF.Society, VF.Recap, VF.Hash — the audited society money leg with a crash-safe journal, the recap bus CityPulse reads, and natives-free SHA-256 for append-only custody chains

See it run

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ForgeCore (vf_core) demo loop — capture pending. Real client footage only; no mockups presented as gameplay.

· OWN CAPTURE · PENDING

ForgeCore (vf_core) NUI detail — capture pending. Real client footage only; no mockups presented as gameplay.

· OWN CAPTURE · PENDING

Captures come from our own test servers, HUD-off, 1920×1080. We never present concept art or mockups as gameplay.

Compatibility

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Qbox + ox_lib · NativeQBCore · CompatESX Legacy · BridgeStandalone · Yes

Declared support — exact tested versions publish with the release QA matrix.

Every Vice Drip resource talks to your framework through one open bridge module in VF Core — Qbox/ox_lib first-class, ESX Legacy via bridge, QBCore compat — with no hard framework dependency baked into the product. Swap frameworks; keep your stack.

Requirements

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oxmysql

Version: 1.5.0
fx_version: cerulean
Lua: 5.4 (lua54 'yes')
Minimum artifact: not declared by the manifest

oxmysql became a hard dependency at v1.5.0 so FiveM starts the database driver first; before that, a server.cfg that ensured oxmysql after vf_core could boot in the wrong order.
ox_lib is used opportunistically behind a resource-state check and is NOT required. Install it if you want the ox UI path; without it, vf_core falls back.

Requirements are read from each resource's own fxmanifest.lua. We do not publish a minimum artifact build because none of our manifests declare one — run a current recommended artifact and Lua 5.4 will be available.

These come from the resource’s own manifest, not from a marketing sheet — the same file your server reads at start. If a dependency is missing, FiveM says so in the console and the resource does not start; nothing half-runs.

Changelog

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v1.5.0last update 2026-09-02— full live feed lands with launch; every release ships dated notes.

Straight answers

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Is VF Core really free and fully open?

Yes — VF Core ships free and 100% unescrowed. It's the bridge layer every Vice Drip product uses to talk to your framework, and you can read every line of it before running anything of ours.

Which frameworks does VF Core support?

Qbox native (ox_lib first-class), QBCore compat, ESX Legacy via bridge, and a standalone mode with no framework at all. Exact tested versions publish with each release's QA matrix.

Can I build my own resources on VF Core?

Yes — it exposes public exports for the player, job, and money APIs plus callbacks, logging, and locale utilities. Because it's unescrowed, the integration surface is fully documented by the code itself.

Get it

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ForgeCore (vf_core)

100% unescrowed — read everything before you run it. First response <24h.

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