Guide: Getting Started

First Steps

A practical route for getting oriented, checking the map, learning your HUD, and finding your first useful interactions.

What it is

This page is the practical first-session guide for someone who just made it into the city and needs a clean route instead of wandering from marker to marker.

How to get started

Once you spawn in, slow down and handle the basics first: orient on the map, identify your apartment or home base, check your phone and inventory, and decide whether your first money is coming from a simple legal job or a resource loop.

How it works in practice

A stable early session usually goes: confirm your spawn/home base, visit city-facing starter interactions, learn your phone and radial menu, pick an early legal money route, and only then branch into vehicles, housing upgrades, or specialized content.

What to know before you commit

New players get more mileage out of consistency than excitement. A clean first house/apartment, one legal income loop, and a grasp of the UI will do more for progression than jumping straight into risky systems.

What this wiki leaves out on purpose

This page leaves out exploit-y shortcut routes and focuses on the intended new-player progression path.

Covered resources

This page was written against the live resource stack below so it matches the actual systems running on your server.

hallowed_hills
qb-cityhall
qb-phone
qb-radialmenu
qb-inventory
ps-housing-main

Practical Flow

How to actually run it

Step 1

Check where you spawned and remember how to get back there.

Step 2

Open your phone and inventory so you know where communication, contacts, and items live.

Step 3

Visit the obvious starter interactions such as city hall or the first legal job you want to try.

Step 4

Pick one money loop and learn it fully before trying to sample ten different systems at once.

Step 5

Once cash starts moving, think about transport, property, and the part of the server you want your character to lean into.