🛡️ Dynamic Armor | Tactical Plate Carrier System [Qbox]

Stop treating armor like a health potion.

Dynamic Armor replaces flat armor items with a plate-carrier system your players will build tactics around. Vests are the platform — ceramic plates are the protection, and managing them mid-fight is the gameplay.

🎽 Three tiers, three playstyles

• Civilian Vest — 30 armor, no plate slots. Simple protection for people who don't start wars.

• Black Market Vest — 25 base + 2 plate slots (75 max). For your criminals. Same base protection as PD — the difference is staying power.

• PD Ballistic Vest — 25 base + 3 plate slots (100 max). Job and grade gated.

💥 Plates break. Loudly.

Each plate soaks 25 damage, then shatters — a networked spark burst and dust puff off the chest that everyone nearby sees. Reading an enemy's plate breaks mid-fight becomes real intel. Broken plates drop into inventory as Damaged Plates — which are worth money.

🎯 The 2-plate rule (the whole point)

Players can only carry 2 intact plates — enforced server-side through ox_inventory hooks on every path: stashes, trunks, shops, ground pickups, player trades. Not weight-based, so it works identically no matter how your inventory is tuned. Result: crews stage plates in trunks, someone runs resupply under fire, and vehicle positioning suddenly matters in every shootout.

Inserting a plate takes 4 seconds, can be done mid-fight — and cancels if you take a hit. Cover first, plate second.

🔨 Blacksmith economy

A scrapyard ped repairs damaged plates for cash (1:1) or trades 3 damaged → 1 fresh for free. Post-fight cleanup becomes a loot phase: whoever polices the broken ceramic funds their next fight. Prices and ratio fully configurable.

👕 In-game admin clothing browser

No more hunting EUP drawable numbers. /armorstyle opens a live browser — arrow keys cycle every armor drawable/texture previewed on your own ped, press E to assign the current look to any vest. Per-gender saves, instant sync to all players, persists through restarts, zero config edits. Works with illenium-appearance, Qbox clothing, and any other clothing system (component-level, framework-agnostic).

🛡️ Built like it's going to be attacked

Because it is. Server-authoritative state with a full consume-first handshake: clients can't mint vests or plates by firing events, damaged-plate payouts are validated against server-seated counts, blacksmith transactions are distance- and amount-checked, and everything mid-action refunds on cancel, timeout, crash, or combat-log. Worn vests survive resource restarts (KVP persistence).

⚙️ Everything configurable

Armor values, slot counts, plate strength, carry cap, insert/equip timers, cancel-on-hit, break particles, repair price, trade ratio, job gates, command names. One config file.

📋 Requirements

qbx_core · ox_lib · ox_inventory · ox_target

📦 Included

Full resource · 5 custom item icons · ox_inventory item definitions · install guide (written for AI-assisted install via Claude Code) · admin + player documentation.

🔄 Updates

Free updates throughout v1.x. A future v2.0 major release will be a paid upgrade for existing owners at a reduced price; you never lose access to the version you bought.

💬 Support

Tickets through our Discord — include your framework and any F8 / server console errors. Keep your transaction ID, it's your proof of license.

Dynamic Scripts — built and battle-tested on a live roleplay server.