Features

What oxide-meth does and how each part works. All the numbers shown here are defaults — every one of them can be changed (see Configuration).

The Production Line

Meth production has four stages. The recipe (variant) and quality (purity) are stored on the items themselves, so they carry through the whole chain — and survive trading, storage, and server restarts.

Cook -> Crystallize -> Break -> Bag

Stage	What goes in	What comes out	Where	How long
Cook	4 base ingredients + up to 2 additives	1 Liquid Meth Tray	Meth Table	~20 seconds of active play
Crystallize	Liquid Meth Tray	Crystallized Meth Tray	Crystallizer	5 minutes (can walk away)
Break	1–3 Crystallized Meth Trays	3–6 shards per tray	Meth Table	Interactive
Bag	3 shards + 1 baggy per bag	1 variant meth baggy per bag	Meth Table	Interactive

Cooking

Cooking is an interactive scene at a placed meth table. The player pours in four chemicals, optionally adds up to two additives, then manages the pot's temperature until the cook finishes.

How a cook plays out

Walk up to a placed meth table and choose Cook Meth.
Click each of the four ingredients and pour them into the pot (tilt the bottle by scrolling).
Optionally add up to 2 additives — liquids are poured, solids are dragged into the pot.
Start the cook. The burner is now heating the pot.
The temperature rises on its own. A key flashes on screen — pressing it drops the temperature by 15°C. The key changes every few seconds, so the player has to stay alert.
Pressing the wrong key bumps the temperature up 3°C extra.
The goal is to keep the temperature between 35°C and 65°C for as much of the cook as possible — that's what decides purity.
After 20 seconds the cook completes and the player transfers the result to a tray: 1 Liquid Meth Tray.

Temperature numbers

Setting	Default
Cook length	20 seconds
Starting temperature	30°C
Heat climb	0.13°C per frame (the burner, always on; additives can speed this up or slow it down)
Correct key press	−15°C instantly
Wrong key press	+3°C
Key changes	Every 4 seconds, or whenever the correct key is pressed
Possible keys	`E`, `Q`, `R`, `G`, `X`, `H`
Best range for purity	35–65°C

Ways to fail

What happens	Result
Temperature hits 100°C	The batch explodes — a real explosion at the table. Ingredients and additives are lost, no output.
Temperature stays under 15°C for about 5 seconds	The reaction stalls and the batch is ruined. Ingredients and additives are lost, no output.

Cooking also releases fumes that blur the player's vision more and more as the cook goes on — unless they're wearing a gas mask. Without one, the effect lingers for 2 minutes after the cook.

Additives and Variants

Up to 2 additives can go into a cook. Each one changes how the cook behaves and what comes out:

Additive	Unlocks at level	Added by	Heat speed	Sweet spot shift	Purity
Pain Killer	1	dragging	normal	—	—
Lax to the Max	1	dragging	10% slower	—	−3
Cannabis Leaf	1	dragging	normal	—	—
Cough Syrup	1	pouring	5% slower	—	—
Magnesium Oxide	3	pouring	normal	+5°C	—
Hazardous Waste	3	pouring	15% faster	−5°C	−5
Vanilla Unicorn Pills	3	dragging	normal	—	—
Adrenaline	5	dragging	30% faster	—	+3
Acetone	5	pouring	5% faster	—	+5
Toluene	7	pouring	normal	+3°C	+5

Certain combinations are named recipes. Cook with the right additives and the output becomes that variant, with its own item, value multiplier, and usage effects:

Variant	Recipe	Value	Shards per tray
Crystal	no additives	1.0x	3–6
Glass	Toluene	1.3x	3–6
Blue Sky	Adrenaline + Toluene	1.6x	3–6
Purple Haze	Cough Syrup + Vanilla Unicorn Pills	1.5x	3–6
Lean Crystal	Cough Syrup	1.2x	3–6
Green Rush	Cannabis Leaf	1.15x	3–6
Dirty Sprite	Cannabis Leaf + Cough Syrup	1.45x	3–6
Street Mix	Lax to the Max + Pain Killer	0.7x	3–6
Rocket Fuel	Adrenaline + Hazardous Waste	1.35x	3–6
Club Special	Adrenaline + Vanilla Unicorn Pills	1.55x	3–6
Ice	Acetone + Toluene	1.5x	3–5

Any additive combination that doesn't match a recipe just produces standard Crystal.

Purity

Purity is a 0–100 score decided at the end of the cook, then carried through trays, shards, and bags:

Temperature control is the main factor — the score starts as the percentage of the cook spent inside the 35–65°C range.
Additives add or subtract their purity bonus.
The cook's level subtracts a penalty — new cooks make worse product no matter how well they play.

Level penalties

Level	Penalty
1	−30
2	−25
3	−20
4	−15
5	−10
6	−8
7	−5
8	−3
9	−1
10	0

Grades

The final score becomes a grade that's shown on the item:

Grade	Score
Pure	90–100
High	70–89
Mid	50–69
Low	30–49
Dirty	0–29

Crystallizing

Liquid trays go into a placed crystallizer to dry. Drying continues even if the player logs off or the server restarts.

Setting	Default
Drying time	5 minutes per tray
Capacity	18 trays (2 racks of 9)
Progress updates	Every 30 seconds to nearby players

The crystallizer panel shows each slot's progress. When a tray is ready, the player collects a Crystallized Meth Tray with the same variant and purity that went in. With ownership enforcement on (the default), only the person who placed a tray can collect it.

Breaking

Crystallized trays get smashed into shards at the meth table.

Setting	Default
Trays per session	Up to 3
Shards per tray	3–6, random
Smash stages	4 (the tray visually breaks down in stages)

The player smashes each tray with a hammer, then clicks the loose shards to collect them. Shards come out as the variant's own item (for example crystal_meth_blue_sky) with the purity grade attached.

A variant's "shards per tray" modifier caps how many shards each tray can give — Ice tops out at 5 instead of 6, the trade-off for its high value.

Bagging

Bagging is a scale minigame at the meth table. Three shards go into each bag, and the player has to hit the right weight.

Setting	Default
Shards per bag	3
Shard weight	0.3g–1.0g each, random
Target weight	1.0g
Bag seals between	0.8g and 1.0g
Bags per session	Up to 10

How it plays out

Start Bag Meth at a meth table (requires shards and at least one baggy).
Pick which product to bag. Shards are grouped by variant and purity.
Drag shards onto the scale, watching the weight climb.
Land the total between 0.8g and 1.0g, then seal the bag.
Repeat until done — each sealed bag becomes that variant's baggy item with the purity attached.

Going over 1.0g means the bag won't seal — the player has to swap for a smaller shard.

Mixing purities: if a player has the same variant in several purity grades, they can bag them together as a mix — but the finished bags take the lowest grade in the mix. Careful cooks keep their product sorted.

Using the Product

Bagged meth (any variant) is a usable item. Effects depend on the variant's profile and scale with purity.

Setting	Default
Effect length	90 seconds base (varies by variant)
Cooldown after the effects end	120 seconds
Purity scaling	Pure 1.3x · High 1.1x · Mid 1.0x · Low 0.8x · Dirty 0.6x

What players can get, depending on the variant:

vivid screen visuals with periodic intensity surges and camera shake
a speed boost
stamina regeneration
armour
gradual healing
stress relief (on frameworks with a stress system — QBCore and QBX)

For example, Rocket Fuel is the combat pick (armour, speed, stamina), Blue Sky adds healing and the longest ride, and Street Mix is short, rough, and barely worth using. Every profile can be tuned per variant in shared/config/usage.lua.

Effects fade out over the last stretch, and a player can't use again until the cooldown passes. Meth can't be used while in a vehicle.

Progression

Everything a player does earns meth XP:

Activity	XP
Finish a cook	25
Collect a dried tray	10
Break trays	30
Seal a bag	15 per bag

Levels run 1–10 (11,000 XP total to max). Leveling up reduces the purity penalty and unlocks better additives:

Level	Unlocks
1	Pain Killer, Lax to the Max, Cannabis Leaf, Cough Syrup
3	Magnesium Oxide, Hazardous Waste, Vanilla Unicorn Pills
5	Adrenaline, Acetone
7	Toluene

Players check their progress any time with /methstats.

Progression is saved per character in the shared drugs_progression table. If you also run other Oxide drug resources, each drug tracks its own separate level in the same table.

Equipment

Both pieces of equipment are inventory items. Using the item starts placement mode — the player positions it on the ground, scrolls to rotate, and confirms. Placed equipment is saved to the database and survives restarts. With ownership enforcement on (the default), only the player who placed equipment can pick it back up.

Meth Table — used for cooking, breaking, and bagging.
Crystallizer — used for drying, with 18 persistent tray slots.

Equipment can't be placed or used from inside a vehicle, and can't be placed inside a safe zone.

Gas Mask

The gas_mask item toggles a mask on the player's face (with a put-on animation). Wearing it protects against the cooking fumes — put it on mid-cook and the blur fades back out.

The mask's appearance (clothing component, drawable, and texture) is configurable so you can match it to your server's clothing pack.

Cooking Manual

The meth_manual item opens an in-game illustrated handbook, written in character, that teaches players the entire system: equipment, the cook, temperature control, every named recipe, purity, bagging, usage effects, and leveling. Item pictures are pulled from your inventory's images automatically.

All of the manual's text can be edited or translated in locales/en.json.

Safe Zones

Config.SafeZones takes a list of polygon areas (for example around hospitals or spawn points) where equipment can't be placed. It ships empty — add your own zones in shared/config.lua.

Next Steps

Configuration — every setting explained
Admin — test and admin commands
Exports — integration reference for developers

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