FiveM Framework Migration

Migrating frameworks is not a data conversion problem. The database is the easy part. The hard part is that every custom and paid resource on your server calls the old framework’s API, and those calls have to be rewritten or replaced.

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Budget by resource count, not by database size. A server with 40 custom resources is a months-long project regardless of which two frameworks are involved.

Before you start

Full database dump taken and restore tested on a separate host
Staging server running the target framework with a copy of production data
Every resource listed and classified: official, paid, custom, abandoned
Paid script vendors contacted about target-framework versions or licence transfers
Escrowed resources identified — you cannot convert these yourself
Maintenance window agreed and a go/no-go rollback deadline set

The escrow point catches people out. Any resource protected by asset escrow cannot be edited, so a framework change means buying the vendor’s other build or dropping the script entirely.

Documented migration paths

QBCore to Qbox

The best-documented path, because Qbox is a QBCore fork and the Qbox team maintains a conversion guide.

Key changes you will hit:

Job and gang grades become numbers, not strings, in qbx_core/shared/jobs.lua and shared/gangs.lua
Multi-job and multi-gang are built into qbx_core and write to a new player_groups table — external multijob resources will corrupt data
players.citizenid must use the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation
The inventory becomes ox_inventory, which needs its own database conversion

Run convertjobs in the txAdmin console after importing qbx_core.sql to populate player_groups.

Qbox conversion guide →

ESX to QBCore

Both frameworks model a character, money accounts and a job grade, so the data maps cleanly. The API surface does not: xPlayer.addAccountMoney('money', n) becomes Player.Functions.AddMoney('cash', n), esx:playerLoaded becomes QBCore:Server:PlayerLoaded, and the identifier column changes meaning.

For a manual conversion checklist, see RPScripts’ guide to converting ESX, QBCore and Qbox scripts (same team as FiveM Docs). This is not an automatic converter; review every handler, database mapping, and permission boundary.

ESX to QBCore migration guide → · Breaking-change checklist → · Updating customised resources →

QBCore to ESX

No maintained guide exists in this direction, and it is rare in practice — the script market flows the other way. Treat it as a rewrite rather than a migration, and read the ESX xPlayer overview before estimating.

Anything to ox_core or ND Core

There is no migration path, official or community, and this is by design. ox_core uses a different persistence model — users and characters are separate entities, groups replace jobs, and accounts are first-class objects with invoices and permissions. Your player data can be transformed; your resources cannot be converted.

If you want ox_core, plan a new server build and migrate players, not code.

Off vRP

vRP predates the modern ecosystem and shares almost no vocabulary with it. See Legacy frameworks for what a realistic exit looks like.

Rollback plan

Decide these before the maintenance window opens, not during it:

Trigger — what observation makes you roll back (boot failure, data loss, more than N broken resources)
Deadline — the clock time after which you stop debugging and revert
Procedure — restore the database dump, restore the previous resources folder, restore the previous server.cfg
Communication — how players are told the server is reverting

Keep the old server artifacts and resources folder on disk until the new framework has survived a full week of normal load.

Choosing a framework — avoid migrating twice
Backups — the dump you will need
txAdmin recipes — how the target framework installs