On The Blade — run the blade in GTA V

What it is

A management sim wearing a crime game's clothes

Recruit a crew off the street. Post them to corners. Collect every hour, and drive out when the operation generates a problem — because it will.

Everything stays at the abstraction the base game uses: money, timers, heat, fade to black. The interesting part was never the corner. It's deciding who works it, when, and what you do the night a rival decides it's theirs.

Two ways to earn

An hourly street take that draws heat, and a safe weekly deposit that only builds while a worker is off the street. They compete for the same hours.

Six corners, four crews

Work a neutral corner to claim it. Take a held one by force. Rivals come back for turf you hold — and only turf you've actually staffed.

A roster with shapes

Hustlers earn on the street. Camera-ready ones build an audience. Fragile ones break when you push them. Loyal ones never walk.

Heat that bites

Let a corner run hot and vice turn it over — everyone off the street, the block shut for days. Bribe it down, launder it away, or pay for it.

Somebody else's earner

Half the people worth signing already work for someone. Take one and she comes in experienced, distrustful, and with her old crew right behind her.

A way to lose

Wages, bail and fines you can't cover become debt, and debt compounds. Let it run and the people you owe come collecting.

A night on the block

How it actually plays

20:00Night rate kicks in. Three of your crew are out on Del Perro; two are resting and building followers instead.
21:00First take of the night lands. Heat on Del Perro ticks up — that's four hours before it's a problem.
21:40A client turns on Marisol. Red blip. You've got ninety seconds and you're across the map.
22:15You bribe the corner cool rather than pull anyone off it. Expensive, but the night's not over.
23:30The Lost MC move on a corner you took off them last week. They brought five.
00:00Wages clear. The weekly deposit lands. You're up — and every crew on the map is angrier than they were yesterday.

Download

Available to patrons

The build is posted on Patreon as a patrons-only download. Join at any paid tier, grab the file from the latest post, and follow the install below.

Patreon handles the membership check itself — there's no key to enter and nothing to activate. If you can see the post, you can download it.

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What you get

OnTheBlade.dll plus the two libraries it needs
Every balance value in a plain config.json — no rebuild to retune
Builds for both Legacy and Enhanced from one file
Updates as the build moves

Early build

v0.1.0 is playable but young. Systems are in and working; balance and placement are still being tuned against real play. Expect rough edges and expect them to move.

Before you start

What you need

GTA V — Legacy or Enhanced, story mode
Script Hook V for your edition
ScriptHookVDotNet Enhanced 1.1.0.6 or newer — install this even on Legacy; the standard build won't load the mod on Enhanced
.NET Framework 4.8 and the Visual C++ 2019 x64 redistributable

Read this first

Story mode only. Loading script mods into GTA Online will get your account banned. On Enhanced, launch without BattlEye.

Install

Base tools into the game folder

Script Hook V and SHVDNE go in the folder with GTA5.exe. Make a scripts folder there if you don't have one.
Three files into scripts
```
<game root>/scripts/
  OnTheBlade.dll
  LemonUI.SHVDN3.dll
  iFruitAddon2.dll
```
Don't put ScriptHookVDotNet3.dll in there — a second copy breaks script loading. It belongs in the game root only.
Load story mode and press F5

You should get an On The Blade loaded notification. If a key clashes with another mod, both are rebindable in config.json.

Key	Does
`F5`	Operations — roster, territory, upgrades, property, muscle
`F1`	Phone — status, recall everyone, fast travel
`Insert`	Reload scripts. Safe: releases every ped the mod owns and saves first

Fine print

Content and conduct

Adult themes, handled the way the base game handles them — abstracted, no explicit content. Every character is an adult. What's modelled is management and turf: money, hours, heat, territory.

Single player only. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.