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Modern Community Integration

The technical standard for managing community access has transitioned from manual SteamID entry to dynamic Discord Role Synchronization. By using Discord as your primary database for permissions, you ensure that if a player is granted a “Police” or “Staff” role within your Discord guild, they automatically receive the corresponding powers in-game. Conversely, if a player leaves your Discord server, their whitelist status is revoked instantaneously, providing an automated and highly secure management workflow.

Difficulty

Intermediate

Time

10 Minutes

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Technical Core Prerequisites

To establish the bridge between the CitizenFX engine and the Discord API, you require two fundamental community frameworks:
  1. Badger-Discord-API: The underlying logic handler that retrieves player role metadata from your guild.
  2. DiscordAcePerms: The configuration script that converts Discord roles into FiveM ACE (Access Control List) permissions.

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Step 1: Architecting the Discord Bot

Follow these steps to create the secure gateway for your server data.
1

Initialize Application

Visit the Discord Developer Portal and create a New Application.
2

Configure Bot Presence

Navigate to the Bot tab. Ensure that the Server Members Intent toggle is enabled; without this, the bot cannot retrieve player role lists.
3

Deploy Tokens to cfg

Copy your Bot Token and Guild (Server) ID. Input these into your server.cfg using the following variables:
set DiscordBotToken "YOUR_SECURE_TOKEN"
set GuildID "YOUR_SERVER_ID"

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Step 2: Mapping Discord Roles to FiveM Groups

To translate your community hierarchy into game permissions, you must define the relationships within your permission script’s config.lua.
1

Retrieve Role IDs

In Discord, right-click your desired role and select Copy ID.
2

Define Mapping Registry

Populate the roleList with your technical mappings:
roleList = {
    ['123456789012345'] = "group.admin",       -- Founder Role
    ['987654321098765'] = "group.whitelisted", -- Community Member Role
}
3

Initialize the Bridge

Restart your server. Monitor the console to ensure the Badger-Discord-API successfully authenticates with the Discord gateway.

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Tactical Automated Onboarding

using Discord-based whitelisting allows you to automate your entire onboarding process. By integrating a “Rules Verification” bot in Discord that assigns a role upon completion, you enable players to whitelist themselves for your FiveM server without requiring manual staff approval, significantly accelerating your community’s growth.

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Last Updated: January 2026 | FiveM: Discord synchronization active.