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Switch the Downtown Mechanic event and food layers live with /mechanicmap, see what each layer adds, and how the active layer is saved across restarts.
The workshop is always there. On top of it sit two optional layers — dressing for a car meet, an open day or a server event — and a single number decides which of them are showing:
Layer | Command | What is loaded |
|---|---|---|
Workshop |
| The building, its interior, the garage doors and the break area. Nothing else. |
Event |
|
The workshop plus qs_dls_mechanic_event: the meet setup.
Event + food |
| The workshop plus |
The food never loads alone. It is laid out on the event tables, so layer
2always brings the event layer with it — there is no way to show plates floating where the tables should be.
Always loaded, whatever the layer. More than 150 placed pieces across the interior, plus the doors and the break area around it:
Area | What is there |
|---|---|
Service bays | Three bays, each with a custom lift behind its own custom roller door. Two engine hoists, two car creepers and power drills. |
Tyres and wheels | Two custom wheel balancers, five custom wheel racks, two hub racks and eighteen rims. |
Parts and tools | Tool chests and drawer units, a custom pipe run, oil cans, paint tins, gas cylinders and racks, pallets, a sack truck, a cleaning trolley and bins. |
Office and lounge | Two custom desks with chairs and office chairs, three custom sofas around a coffee table, two ceiling TVs, a jukebox, a soda machine, a key cabinet, a heater and a wall clock. |
Decoration | Racing trophies, framed car art and industrial lighting throughout the hall. |
Break area | A corner with car seats, tools, a radio and an ashtray, and a table with chairs at the west end. |
Thirteen pieces that turn the shop into a meet:
A gazebo over a table with four chairs.
A barbecue grill.
A second table with three chairs at the south end, and a concrete barrier.
A full dog bowl — this one needs game build 3570.
Fifty-seven pieces laid out on the event tables:
Burgers, tacos, turkey legs, bowls of crisps and bar nuts.
Beer bottles, juice and whiskey.
Ketchup and mustard, napkins, food jars, a serving tray, and a chopping board with a knife.
Use /mechanicmap followed by the layer number. It works from chat for anyone with the permission (see Granting the Command), and from the server console or txAdmin — where the slash is left out:
/mechanicmap 2 # in game chat
mechanicmap 0 # in the server console or txAdminThe moment the command runs:
The new number replaces the old one and is written to map_state.json. The console confirms it with [MECHANIC MAP] State updated: 2.
The number is sent to all connected players at once — no reconnect, no resource restart.
Only what changes is loaded or unloaded. Going from 2 to 1 clears the food and leaves the gazebo and tables standing; going from 0 to 2 brings in both layers together.
Players who join later are covered too: half a second after the map starts on their side, their client asks the server for the current layer and loads it, so a newcomer walks into the same party as everybody else.
A missing or out-of-range value — anything but 0, 1 or 2 — changes nothing and answers with the usage line, in chat for a player and in the console for the console:
Usage: /mechanicmap [0-2] (0 = off, 1 = event, 2 = event + food)The active layer is written to map_state.json the moment it changes and read back on every start. A server that was showing the food layer on Friday night comes back with it on Saturday morning, until somebody switches it off.
{
"activeMap": 2
}On start, the file… | What happens |
|---|---|
holds 0, 1 or 2 | That layer is restored. |
is missing | It is created with |
has no | It is rewritten with |
holds any other number | No layer is loaded — the same as |
Hand edits only count on the next start. The running server keeps the number in memory and overwrites the file the next time anyone uses the command — so to change the layer on a live server, use the command.
The workshop stands in Los Santos at:
vector3(-74.6, -1332.2, 29.8)The map adds no blip of its own, so players find it through your mechanic job, your GPS or a blip you add. Integrations lists the coordinates of each bay, the office and the doors for setting up a job.