Fewer resources, better quality.
Forward Development makes FiveM scripts and Minecraft plugins. Each one is documented and tested on a clean server before it ships.
Scripts, tools and docs
We build for server owners who want something that works out of the box, with a config they can read and an install of a few lines.
Every release is tested on a clean server and ships with its own docs page. When something is beta, the release says what is untested.
What we make
Four kinds of work, one bar. Fewer releases, each one finished.
Scripts
FiveM resources, each named
fwd-so you can find it in your server’s file tree. Versioned with semver, with notes that name the breaking change first.Plugins
Minecraft plugins built to the same bar: one jar for the plugins folder, the same docs page, the same changelog.
Docs
One page per release: installation, every config key with its default, every exported function and every dependency with its minimum version.
Tools
The API, the Pro portal and the console that run the catalog and Pro behind the scenes. Built by us, to the same standard.
Four scripts that clear the bar beat twenty that don't.
If it can't clear the bar, it doesn't ship.
Every release goes through this list. Part of it isn’t left to discipline: the catalog rejects names without fwd-, versions that aren’t semver, and any beta or breaking change without a note.
- A docs page covering installation, config and every exported function
- Tested on a clean server, not just the dev machine
- Every dependency named, with its minimum version
- Every config key documented, defaults included
- Breaking changes named, with the old and the new value
- A semver version that matches the tag in git
- A licence file in the repo
- Beta labelled beta, with what is untested
What a release looks like
The plugin, its post in Discord, its docs page and its place in the changelog. Every part built to the same bar.
Name, version, one sentence, two tags.
The release card is the unit everything else is built from: the post, the docs page, the changelog entry. If it doesn’t fit on the card, it isn’t clear yet.
Installing is a few lines, and the docs page says which.
# Forward ensure fwd-
- 01Installing on FiveMFrom a download to a running resource. The same steps work for every Forward FiveM script.
- 02Installing on MinecraftA jar in the plugins folder and a full restart. The same steps work for every Forward plugin.
- 03Getting a Pro scriptPro opens soon, with our new checkout. Already subscribed on Discord? You keep Pro until your period ends, and this page shows how your FiveM scripts reach you.
- 04Licence keyOne line in server.cfg, for every FiveM Pro script that checks a licence.
- 05Updating a scriptRead what changed, keep your settings, swap the files.
- 06Getting helpWhere to ask, what to include, and how fast to expect an answer.
- 07Link your Minecraft accountA Minecraft plugin key belongs to one Java Edition account. Linking yours in the portal shows us which one it is.
Pro
For the larger work. Pro opens soon with our new checkout; until then the news comes first in the Discord.
- Advanced scripts
- The larger builds that aren’t in the free library.
- Early access
- New releases before they go public.
- Updates
- Maintained for as long as the script is sold.
- Support
- A person reads your message and replies within 24 hours. That’s an acknowledgement, not a fix.
Already subscribed on Discord? You keep Pro until your period ends.
Start in Discord. Releases, support and Pro news live there.
Every release is posted in the server, questions get answered there, and Pro’s opening is announced there first.
Forward Development
Scripts, tools and docs
- announcements
- releases
- pro-releases