# Dependencies

> Required and optional dependencies for ML Tattoos

Category: TATTOOS · Source: https://miciomods.it/docs/ml-tattoos-dependencies · Last updated: 2026-07-09

## Required

- `ml_bridge`: Framework-agnostic player, money and permission API. Download from `https://portal.cfx.re`
- `ox_lib`: Callbacks, cache handles, points and the locale loader (`https://github.com/communityox/ox_lib`)
- `oxmysql`: Database driver
- `ml_tattoos_meta`: Companion resource shipped inside the same package. It streams the overlay slot pool that custom-image tattoos render into. It must be present and started, or custom tattoos will not appear in the world.

> **INFO:** About the meta companion
>
> `ml_tattoos_meta` carries the streamed overlay data that custom-image tattoos bind to at runtime. `ml_tattoos` writes the pool into it at boot and starts it for you. Keep both resources in the package together and do not rename `ml_tattoos_meta` unless you also change `Config.MetaResource`.

## Framework

**QBox**

**server.cfg**

```cfg
ensure qbx_core
ensure oxmysql
ensure ox_lib
ensure ml_bridge
ensure ml_tattoos_meta
ensure ml_tattoos
```

**QBCore**

**server.cfg**

```cfg
ensure qb-core
ensure oxmysql
ensure ox_lib
ensure ml_bridge
ensure ml_tattoos_meta
ensure ml_tattoos
```

**ESX**

**server.cfg**

```cfg
ensure es_extended
ensure oxmysql
ensure ox_lib
ensure ml_bridge
ensure ml_tattoos_meta
ensure ml_tattoos
```

**Standalone**

**server.cfg**

```cfg
ensure oxmysql
ensure ox_lib
ensure ml_bridge
ensure ml_tattoos_meta
ensure ml_tattoos
```

> **INFO:** Auto Detection
>
> `ml_bridge` detects the active framework automatically. No manual setup is required.

## Optional

- `ml_tebex`: Webhook hub that delivers the optional Tebex packages used to grant custom-tattoo uses. Only needed if you sell or hand out uses through your Tebex store (see Configuration → Uses & Optional Donations). Without it, the in-game money and item flows still work.
- `fmsdk` (FiveManage). Enables the in-game PNG uploader for custom tattoos. When absent, players paste an image link instead.
- Any inventory: Required only when item payment or item-kit presets are enabled, to register the tattoo-kit items.