OX Restricted Items lets you lock specific inventory items behind jobs, grades and licences, so only the right players can carry, use or move them at any time. It adds a lightweight but powerful permission layer on top of ox_inventory that finally closes a very common roleplay and server-balance gap for busy cities.
Without proper controls, valuable or strictly role-specific items tend to quietly leak across your entire economy and undermine your carefully balanced jobs. This resource enforces exactly who may hold or use each item directly on the server side, keeping police gear, medical supplies and rare goods firmly where they belong. On roleplay servers where fairness is everything, knowing that a rare weapon or a restricted medical item genuinely cannot end up in the wrong hands gives both your staff and your players real, lasting peace of mind.
How restricted items work
- Whitelist any item to one or more particular jobs, grades or licences with a simple config entry.
- Block using, moving or dropping an item entirely for players who lack the required permission.
- Server-side checks that simply cannot be bypassed, spoofed or tricked by a malicious client.
- Optional, configurable notifications that clearly tell players when access has been denied.
- A simple, readable config table that maps each protected item straight to its access requirements.
Practical and lightweight
- Integrates cleanly with existing ox_inventory metadata without disrupting any current items.
- Minimal performance cost thanks to an event-driven design with no wasteful polling loops.
- Full compatibility with both ESX and QBCore job, grade and licence systems out of the box.
- Easy to extend and maintain as your server grows and you gradually add brand-new items.
- Clear, worked examples included for the most common real-world restriction use cases.
Because every single check runs securely on the server, exploiters can never simply spoof a job or grade to unlock restricted gear, which makes your entire item economy far more trustworthy, fair and resistant to the kind of abuse that quietly ruins otherwise well-run servers.
Setup is a simple matter of ensuring the resource immediately after ox_inventory and then filling in the configuration for each of the items you specifically want to protect, with no complicated scripting or database work required at all.
Find more control tools in our admin and utility scripts collection, or browse the full FiveM scripts catalogue.
