Fuel | Jerry Cans and Stations

Most fuel scripts are just a price tag on a pump. ml_fuel takes the pump away and turns fuel into something players have to go and find. Every vehicle runs a fuel type, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, or types you add yourself, set by vehicle class or per model. It burns that fuel based on how the car actually drives: mass, drivetrain, top speed, the weather, and a damaged tank that leaks faster. Tank size comes from the same data, so a tiny hatchback and a dump truck no longer pretend to hold the same sixty liters.

The jerry can is the centre of it. It is a real object that carries its own contents. The fuel type and the liters inside live on the can, show up in its tooltip, and the can itself never disappears. It just gets emptied and refilled. Diesel stays diesel, and pour it into a gasoline car and the car refuses it. Filling a can means earning it. Siphon a parked vehicle with a hose before the owner comes back, comb wrecked cars on the roadside, or hook an electric pump to an abandoned gas station.

Stations are the loop that keeps players on the move. Out of all the locations placed on the map, only a rotating subset are live at any moment, and each live station holds a limited number of draws before it runs dry. No crew can sit on one spot and farm it. A skill check guards every scavenge, and a fumbled attempt can ping the police with a coded call and a blip on the spot. Staff can light up the active stations with one command.

There is more on top. One use fuel bottles for a lighter economy. Tank expansions that bolt extra liters onto a plate for good. Conversion kits that switch a vehicle to another fuel type and remember it across restarts. And a full electric lane: electric vehicles are recognised on their own, charging stations you place carry their own power reserve, and portable power cells let you carry a charge, including a solar one that tops itself back up in the sun.

The same can works everywhere on your server. The same can fuels your base building generators straight from the same hold to pour panel, and anything else on your server that runs on fuel. A driving fuel gauge in three styles, the hold to pour transfer panel, per action Discord logs and admin tools finish it off.

Works on ESX, QBCore, Qbox, ox_core or no framework at all, and on the inventory you already run. Refillable jerry cans need an inventory that keeps item data, which every common one does. On an inventory that does not, it starts in simple mode on its own, with one-use fuel items instead of refillable cans.

• No pay at the pump, fuel is scavenged
• Driving fuel gauge in three HUD styles
• Skill checks on every scavenge, with multiple difficulty steps