Player handbook
Find your feet in Southland.
Start with what you are trying to do. These guides explain the path through the city, with current commands linked from the game registry.
Enter at least two characters. You can also browse every guide below.
Start here
Account access, first steps, commands, and roleplay fundamentals.
Your first hour in Southland
Enter a character, settle into Unity, and complete a safe first roleplay session.
Read guide →Commands, prompts, and getting help
Find commands, read prompts and references, and recover when an action fails.
DraftRead draft →Your account and characters
Connect, register your account, choose a character, and recover from an interrupted entry.
DraftRead draft →Account security and recovery
Protect your passwordless account, manage remembered logins, and recover a Discord link safely.
DraftRead draft →Doors, interiors, and world interaction
Learn how to find entrances, move through nested interiors, and handle locked doors.
Read guide →Finding places with GPS and waypoints
Browse public destinations, save and share personal waypoints, manage checkpoints, and control the location HUD.
DraftRead draft →Getting around with starter rentals
Find Unity transport, take and operate a temporary starter rental, return it, and recover after reconnecting.
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Communication and roleplay
Chat, phones, organizations, identity, and social interaction.
Roleplay and chat fundamentals
Learn how to speak in character, write clear actions, and choose the right chat channel.
DraftRead draft →Classified adverts
Post an in-character classified advert and read the recent public listings.
Read guide →Animations and character expression
Browse manual animations, stop your own pose, and choose how ordinary speech is presented.
DraftRead draft →Phones, calls, texts, and contacts
Use your character's phone for calls, texts, contacts, and burner-phone roleplay.
DraftRead draft →Joining and managing a faction
Join a faction, understand ranks and duty, use internal chat and banking, and manage membership safely.
DraftRead draft →Department and government communication
Use department radio, official identification, public address, and announcements in an eligible faction role.
Read guide →Descriptions, examination, and consensual interactions
Set observable character details, examine nearby people, use shared chance results, interact through doors, and offer gestures.
DraftRead draft →Masks and concealed identity
Obtain and wear a mask, use its visible scene reference, understand concealment, and recover after custody changes.
DraftRead draft →Documents, signatures, and notarization
Turn paper into a persistent document, finish and read it, request signatures, notarize it, and transfer the original safely.
DraftRead draft →Photography and persistent scene media
Carry a camera, create a persistent textual photograph, view the frozen scene, and share the original through item custody.
DraftRead draft →Graffiti, bulletin boards, and public notes
Create and manage persistent graffiti, read and post board notes, and understand ownership, expiry, and moderation.
DraftRead draft →XM radio and boomboxes
Tune shared vehicle or property audio, control personal playback, and place, adjust, recover, or transfer a boombox.
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Money, work, and business
Earning, spending, employment, shops, and business operation.
Finding work
Choose an established job, reach its signup point, change employment safely, and continue to the right work guide.
DraftRead draft →Money, banking, and paying players
Check your money, move it between cash and bank, and make safe player payments.
Read guide →ATMs, payday, and earnings
Use active ATMs, understand payday statements, and recognize where established earnings appear.
DraftRead draft →Shopping at stores
Find an open store, review its current catalogue, and confirm a cash purchase safely.
DraftRead draft →Working as a trucker
Start a supplied-truck shift, complete scripted deliveries, collect cash pay, and end cleanly.
Read guide →Working as a mechanic
Offer a nearby driver a consent-based vehicle repair and confirm service and payment safely.
Read guide →Requesting and working a taxi
Call or drive a supplied taxi, manage pickup requests, meter a ride, and settle it cleanly.
Read guide →Finding and publishing businesses
Browse businesses for sale, find staffed open or hiring premises, and publish an eligible business listing.
DraftRead draft →Buying and operating a business
Buy a market business, manage public access, employees, ranks, and its till, then sell it safely.
DraftRead draft →Bank transfers, loans, bills, and debt
Transfer bank funds by consent, take and repay a personal loan, and understand medical debt and collection.
DraftRead draft →Financing your first home
Close a first-home mortgage at a property door, keep up with the daily payments, and clear the lien.
DraftRead draft →Restaurants, bars, and venue service
Read a venue menu, buy at the counter, accept table service, and manage offerings as an authorized employee.
DraftRead draft →Business stock, restock orders, and haulage
Review managed stock, post a funded restock order, haul cargo as a trucker, and recover from cancellation or loss.
DraftRead draft →Pawnshops, consignment, and resale
Sell or consign eligible items, price and buy pawn stock, reclaim listings, and understand traceable resale.
DraftRead draft →Lottery tickets, draws, and prize claims
Review the current draw, buy character-bound tickets, understand rollover, and claim a recorded prize safely.
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Items, homes, and vehicles
Inventory, property, access, transport, and ownership.
Inventory, giving, dropping, and picking up items
Review carried items and move them safely between players and the world.
Read guide →Owning and using vehicles
Buy, retrieve, operate, secure, park, share, sell, and recover a persistent character vehicle.
DraftRead draft →Buying, renting, and managing property
Buy or rent a home, manage access and property funds, and leave ownership or tenancy safely.
DraftRead draft →Outfits and wardrobes
Browse, buy, and wear persistent outfits for your character.
DraftRead draft →Keys, locks, and sharing access
Learn how character access works, control locks, and safely share or revoke keys.
Read guide →Managing organization vehicle fleets
List, buy, retrieve, park, and retire an authorized service organization's persistent vehicles.
DraftRead draft →Buying and using garages
Learn how to buy, access, fill, share, and sell a player-owned garage.
Read guide →Buying, placing, and managing furniture
Furnish an accessible property, move or carry pieces safely, and recover from interrupted editing.
DraftRead draft →Releasing an impounded vehicle
Review an eligible vehicle hold, pay the displayed release fee, and retrieve the vehicle safely.
DraftRead draft →Bidding in property auctions
Review a system property auction, place an unreserved bank-backed bid, and verify the eventual result.
DraftRead draft →Weapons, ammunition, and secure storage
Manage packaged and carried weapons, load ammunition, move custody safely, and use keyed storage.
DraftRead draft →Drugs, temporary effects, and secure storage
Review loose drug lots, use current dose guidance, understand temporary effects, and move lots through keyed storage.
DraftRead draft →Food, drinks, cigarettes, hunger, and vending
Acquire and use consumables, understand temporary effects and needs, and buy persistent items from vending machines.
DraftRead draft →Bare interiors and property utilities
Prepare an empty property for an interior-shell switch, review utility bills, restore amenities, and clear sale blockers.
DraftRead draft →Vehicle controls and safety
Use driver and passenger controls, indicators and keybinds, seatbelts or helmets, panels, locks, and runtime vehicle state.
DraftRead draft →Fuel and vehicle repairs
Refuel an owned vehicle, arrange a player-mechanic repair, and understand the held Pay 'n' Spray service flow.
DraftRead draft →Vehicle insurance and history reports
Buy or cancel vehicle cover, understand automatic total-loss claims, and purchase a civilian vehicle history report.
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Law, health, and crime
Emergencies, official interactions, injury, and criminal consequences.
Applying to LSPD or LSFD
Submit and track a private public-service application, respond to review, and claim an approved character membership.
DraftRead draft →Police interactions, searches, charges, and arrest
Understand restraint, respond to a search request, review charges, and follow an arrest into corrections.
DraftRead draft →Fines, licences, and official records
Review and pay personal fines, view your licence status, and present identification to another player.
DraftRead draft →Mobile Data Computer basics
Use authorized person and plate lookups and understand the current structured charge workflow.
DraftRead draft →Serving prison time and being released
Check remaining prison time, understand what pauses it, and leave prison when release is available.
DraftRead draft →Injuries, treatment, death, and recovery
Review damage, respond to incapacitation, receive treatment, recover at hospital, and understand persistent bodies.
DraftRead draft →Going on duty and selecting a service uniform
Enter organization duty at an authorized armory without replacing your civilian outfit.
DraftRead draft →Responding to active fires
Find an active fire, review its status, and suppress it with assigned Fire/EMS equipment.
DraftRead draft →Crime, evidence, and consequences
Keep criminal mechanics inside roleplay, understand custody and records, accept interruption, and report genuine faults correctly.
DraftRead draft →Black markets and illicit wholesale goods
Use an authorized faction depot to review, order, withdraw, and distribute established wholesale goods.
DraftRead draft →House robbery and stolen property
Follow the temporary property-robbery session, claim generated loot, cancel safely, and handle traceable stolen items.
DraftRead draft →Chop shops and stolen vehicles
Quote an eligible vehicle, begin an organization chop delivery, cancel safely, and verify permanent completion.
DraftRead draft →Persistent injuries and medical bills
Understand visible aftermath after recovery, inspect injuries, review medical debt, and pay eligible hospital charges.
DraftRead draft →Calling 911 and emergency dispatch
File an emergency call from an eligible phone, complete operator intake, and understand responder attachment and closure.
DraftRead draft →Evidence custody and forensic reports
Book an item into an authorized locker, submit an exhibit for examination, read reports, and release custody safely.
DraftRead draft →Spent casings and shot scenes
Understand what firing a gun leaves behind, search the ground for spent casings, and know what recovering or clearing them does.
DraftRead draft →Informant agreements and controlled purchases
Accept or leave a voluntary informant agreement, handle assigned tasks, and complete an authorized legal-store purchase.
DraftRead draft →Panic, backup, road control, and toll incidents
Request or answer emergency support, deploy temporary road controls, and manage authorized toll closures and passage.
DraftRead draft →Vehicle break-ins, alarms, and till robbery
Understand traceable lockpick and hotwire attempts, business till robbery stages, alarms, cancellation, and recovery.
DraftRead draft →Anonymous payphone tips and investigation
Submit a non-emergency tip from a public booth and understand the authorized investigation and privacy boundaries.
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Help and recovery
Support, reports, bugs, account recovery, and troubleshooting.
Accessibility and client settings
Choose Southland presentation settings, use command alternatives, and report an accessibility barrier safely.
DraftRead draft →Support and reporting
Choose gameplay help, player-conduct, bug-reporting, and private case-update routes safely.
DraftRead draft →Reporting and tracking bugs
Submit a useful reproducible bug report, retain its reference, and check public progress safely.
DraftRead draft →Offers and incomplete transactions
Confirm consent offers, wait for final transaction evidence, and recover safely from an unclear outcome.
Read guide →Common troubleshooting
Resolve ordinary command, context, reference, and interruption problems without risking duplicate actions.
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