There are 51 projects: 18 weapon upgrades, 19 vehicle-equipment upgrades, Ballistic Equipment and 13 cosmetic projects. Each named livery set counts as one project. The full guide has a searchable checklist with original video examples.
AP Pistol is our practical automatic sidearm pick, with a 36-round extended magazine. Its name does not mean it fires the researched Mk II Armor Piercing ammunition.
Speak to the staff member inside your Special Cargo Warehouse and pay them to source cargo. Lupe’s team provides this option alongside your own sourcing missions.
With an owned Hangar Workshop, the Avenger’s optional upgrades include pilot-operated guns and missiles, an autopilot stealth module, an autopilot missile lock-on jammer and the Avenger Thruster support vehicle.
Our everyday rifle pick is Special Carbine, or Special Carbine Mk II once you have a Weapon Workshop. For the Mk II, start with a grip, muzzle brake and regular extended magazine. These control attachments are direct purchases; they do not require Bunker research.
For close mission encounters, our practical pick is the automatic Assault Shotgun with its 32-round extended magazine. For a specialist setup, Pump Shotgun Mk II accepts researched Explosive Slugs.
Our main long-range upgrade pick is Heavy Sniper Mk II. Regular ammo is a practical default for player fights; the regular extended magazine holds eight rounds, versus four in special magazines. Thermal Scope requires Bunker research. Explosive ammo is a specialist vehicle-combat choice, not a guaranteed one-shot player kill.
Register as a CEO and use the SecuroServ Special Cargo network on your Office desk computer to buy a Special Cargo Warehouse. These warehouses come in small, medium and large sizes; you can own up to five.
Nightclub owners can call Yohan to check warehouse stock level and value, or launch a Nightclub Goods sourcing mission. This concerns the warehouse operation.
Before trading Bunkers, use remaining supplies, sell manufactured stock and finish research already in progress. Rockstar says those supplies, stock and unfinished research will not transfer.
If your personal vehicle is destroyed during a Contact Mission, Mors Mutual lets you claim it without a charge. Its Claim All option can process multiple destroyed vehicles together.
Combat MG Mk II is our sustained-fire pick. A grip and muzzle brake are available without research. Its regular extended magazine holds 200 rounds, compared with 80 for special magazines.
Rockstar increased Biker and Bunker Sell Mission timers by 50% for solo players in Bottom Dollar Bounties. This changes the time allowance; it does not guarantee a single delivery vehicle or completion of every full-stock sale.
Use the daily G’s Cache map marker to reach the search area. Look for a red flashing light and listen for beeping as you search nearby. The cache contains GTA$, ammunition and snacks.
Check whether a Custom Weapon Loadout is hiding your owned guns. Disable it in the Interaction Menu under Health and Ammo, or change the loadout at a Gun Locker.
Check that the web order uses the same Rockstar Games account, character and vehicle you are using in GTA Online. Look in Los Santos Customs’ Plates menu if Process Order is absent.
You can pay the staff member in your Hangar to source cargo. You can also call Ron to request a Source Cargo mission for you to complete. These are two different ways to arrange sourcing.
A documented route is Bunker ownership → Mobile Operations Center with a Weapon Workshop (or combined Weapon & Vehicle Workshop) → convert an eligible weapon at its workbench → buy available components. If you already have a Weapon Workshop elsewhere, check that first.
Call Lester → Off the Radar when the option is available. It hides your radar presence from other players. The session receives a feed notification that you used the service.
Call Lester → Cops Turn Blind Eye to use his temporary police service when available. Rockstar describes it as a short period in which police turn a blind eye to crime.
Hiding the body armor shown on your character does not remove its protection. The armor bar still represents your remaining protection; the visible vest is an appearance choice.
Homing Launcher offers guided missiles for moving vehicle targets. Sticky Bombs let you remotely detonate a charge you have placed or thrown. They fill different vehicle-combat roles; keep a firearm ready for on-foot fights.
At the Bunker laptop, assign staff to Research or both Manufacturing and Research, and maintain supplies. Each project unlocks randomly. Fast-tracking advances the current project; it does not let you choose the next unlock. Buy the compatible component after its research completes.
A Bail Enforcement Office provides bounty targets: one Most Wanted target per day and three standard targets per hour. Capture targets alive for processing in your holding cell; dead targets go to the coroner.
Complete the random Explosive Rounds Bunker research project. Then use a Weapon Workshop to buy the explosive-ammunition option for Heavy Sniper Mk II or Explosive Slugs for Pump Shotgun Mk II. You still need the appropriate Mk II weapon conversion.
For Special Carbine Mk II or Combat MG Mk II, start with a grip and muzzle brake: neither requires research. Heavy barrels concern long-range damage; scopes change your view. Pistol Mk II’s Compensator is a research-gated exception.
Own the Darnell Bros Garment Factory to access Bureau Tech modifications for an owned Terrorbyte. The Master Control Terminal upgrade lets you access supported owned businesses from the rear of the truck.
Our starter shortlist is Special Carbine, Assault Shotgun and AP Pistol, with a long-range rifle. With a Weapon Workshop, add Combat MG Mk II for sustained fire and Heavy Sniper Mk II for long-range work. Keep regular ammunition in your everyday guns while learning their handling.
Open Rockstar’s License Plate Creator at rockstargames.com/gta-online/license-plates while your intended character is in GTA Online. Sign in to the linked Rockstar Games account, choose New Order, enter the plate text and background, then select a recently driven eligible vehicle and place the order.
Start with the exact property names you already own, the business you want next, your budget and the work you repeat. Compare trips between entrances as well as the places where you launch and finish that work. A nearby building alone is not a complete buying recommendation.
Bunker owners can call Agent 14 for a Research Mission to earn research progress. Check your current research project in the Bunker before deciding whether to run it.
If your Oppressor Mk II is stored in the Terrorbyte, use Interaction Menu → Services → Terrorbyte → Request Oppressor Mk II. You can request the bike directly from that menu.
Street Dealers buy cocaine, meth, weed and acid. You need stock and the corresponding MC business or Acid Lab to sell. Each dealer pays a premium for a preferred drug.
Open your in-game phone → Contacts → Lamar, then choose his mugger service and select the player you want to target. Lamar sends an NPC to rob that player.
Use the Free Trade Shipping Co. site on your Hangar laptop to choose land-based Source and Sell missions. Hangar cargo work offers ground routes as well as aircraft missions.
In the controller settings, change the sprint control from Tap to Sprint to Hold to Sprint. This lets you hold the sprint button instead of repeatedly tapping it.
Go to Downtown Cab Co. at Tangerine Street and Mirror Park Boulevard in East Vinewood and start work at the depot. You can take fares without buying your own taxi.
Register as an MC President, CEO or VIP, enter your Terrorbyte and use the Nerve Center’s touchscreen to select a Client Job. Paige’s jobs include stealing from bank robbers, jewelry theft and hacking at LifeInvader.
In Freemode, use an eligible owned Law Enforcement personal vehicle to request Dispatch Work from Vincent, or wait for his call. Applicable vehicles are sold through Warstock.
Tactical SMG is our SMG pick for drive-by use where your vehicle permits it. Rockstar introduced it as an automatic drive-by weapon; its extended magazine holds 60 rounds.
If you confirm the warning to delete and replace a vehicle in full storage, the old vehicle is permanently removed. It is not moved to another garage. Select storage with an empty space when adding a vehicle you want to keep alongside your existing cars.
Use the Mobile Operations touch screen in your MOC’s living quarters or command center. Each operation lists a required number of Bunker Resupply Missions.
Thermal Scope and Night Vision Scope are separate Heavy Sniper Mk II Bunker research projects. After the relevant project unlocks, buy and equip the scope at a Weapon Workshop.
Open the weapon wheel and use its on-screen snack or armor prompt. This lets you replenish health or equip carried armor without browsing the Interaction Menu. You need the relevant supplies.
Install the optional Operations Terminal in an owned Avenger. Buy it through the Avenger’s Warstock renovation options, or via Charlie’s upgrades in your Hangar.
The Darnell Bros Garment Factory’s basement connects to several exit points around Los Santos. In Freemode, those points also provide a route back into the factory.
Clubhouse bar resupply brings in patrons and generates income. With the optional Custom Bike Shop, you can modify customers’ bikes to their requirements and deliver them.
Call Lester from your phone’s Contacts for police help, radar services, locating transport and placing a bounty on another player. Remove Wanted Level clears police pursuit; Off the Radar conceals your radar presence; Cops Turn Blind Eye provides a temporary police service.
Call Merryweather from Contacts for the available support options: ammunition drops, helicopter backup, airstrikes and mercenaries. Choose the service in its phone menu and follow the delivery or targeting instructions.
The Gun Van sells a rotating selection of weapons and ammunition at discounted prices without the usual rank restrictions. Check its current inventory when you visit; its stock changes.
The Mammoth Avenger is an aircraft with optional gun turrets, a Vehicle Workshop and a Weapon Workshop. Add an Operations Terminal to launch Project Overthrow missions and LSA Operations with Charlie Reed.
The Mobile Operations Center is a driveable truck and trailer purchased on Warstock after you own a Bunker. Its selectable bays provide living quarters, a command center, a Weapon Workshop, a combined Weapon & Vehicle Workshop or personal-vehicle storage.
Brucie’s phone service supplies Bull Shark Testosterone. Rockstar describes its effect as doubling damage dealt and halving damage received. Call Brucie in Contacts to see the available service.
In GTA Online, Shooting skill affects accuracy, recoil, reload speed and ammunition capacity. Shooting Range challenges provide a structured way to practise and improve it.
The Terrorbyte is a mobile command truck. Its Nerve Center launches Paige’s Client Jobs and Steal/Resupply missions for supported businesses you already own.
The Buckingham Akula is a weaponized helicopter introduced in The Doomsday Heist update. Rockstar documents its homing-missile and turret modifications.
An Executive Office unlocks CEO access. Buy one through Dynasty 8 Executive, then use the Interaction Menu’s boss-registration options. An Office also provides an Executive Assistant and access to the Special Cargo network.
Take an eligible car to the LS Car Meet modification shop to apply Drift Tuning. It changes the vehicle’s handling for drifting; the upgrade is available only for supported models.
After an unlock, prioritize equipment you will use: a compatible Heavy Barrel for long-range work; Heavy Sniper Mk II Thermal Scope for visibility; Explosive Rounds for specialist sniper or Pump Shotgun setups; then other ammo and equipment for vehicles you own. Liveries only change appearance.
Regular ammunition is our everyday default. Special rounds have restricted capacity and are refilled at a Weapon Workshop. Check the selected gun: every Mk II weapon does not accept every type.
For missing Lester/Merryweather unlocks, Rockstar recommends checking the Trevor-and-Ron introduction at the T marker on the map and whether Brucie has called and appears in Contacts.
Equipment is only part of a GTA Online fight. Hits, range, exposure, current health and armor can change the result. Maximum health increases through rank 100, and bulletproof helmets protect against some headshots; they do not make every wearer invulnerable.
Passive Mode is unavailable in weaponized vehicles. After you kill another player, its activation is blocked for two minutes. After disabling it, you must wait five minutes before enabling it again.
Complete the six First Dose missions, recover the lab equipment and install it in the Brickade 6x6. This gives you a mobile business that turns supplies into stock to sell.
After setting up the Agency, complete a Security Contract to progress toward the VIP work. Security Contracts include recovery, rescue and protection jobs.
Auto Shop Robbery Contracts have two planning jobs and a finale. Customer work involves modifying a car to the requested specification and delivering it yourself or using staff.
Bunker manufacturing produces stock to sell. Research unlocks improvements instead. Agent 14 also offers Research Missions. Your current staff assignment matters when checking whether supplies are producing stock or research progress.
The Arcade is the planning base for The Diamond Casino Heist. Its approaches are Silent & Sneaky, The Big Con and Aggressive. Each approach has its own preparation path.
Rockstar’s setup guide lists GTA$65,000 for The Data Breaches, GTA$95,000 for The Bogdan Problem and GTA$120,000 for The Doomsday Scenario. These are the host’s setup fees, separate from buying a Facility.
In Freemode, call Mechanic from your phone contacts. Choose the property, garage floor and vehicle to have it delivered nearby. Rockstar documents a two-minute cooldown between requests.
You can accept an invitation to an original heist without meeting the host’s rank and apartment requirements. You can also use the in-game phone: Quick Job → Play Heist.
The Kosatka’s optional equipment includes guided missiles, a sonar station and a weapon workshop. Its Moon Pool vehicle options include the Sparrow, Kraken Avisa and Pegassi Toreador.
Mansion Additional Security reduces the chance of raids on owned businesses. Rockstar states that the risk is eliminated when the respective business Security upgrade has also been purchased. Check both upgrades; mansion ownership alone does not establish that condition.
Optional Mansion rooms include an Armory, Arcade, Vehicle Podium and Vehicle Workshop. The Armory provides a Mk II weapon workshop and loadout storage.
On PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC Enhanced, open Interaction Menu → Manage Vehicles → Vehicle Organization. Select the vehicle and its destination garage or floor.
Nightclub popularity drives safe income. The warehouse is a separate operation using assigned technicians. Treat the safe and warehouse as two different systems when checking why one is not earning.
GTA Online on PC cannot play with console players. In the Xbox app on PC, cross-network settings refer to players using other PC storefronts. That setting does not enable PC-to-console play.
You can pay GTA$250 at the impound to recover the vehicle. If you have a CEO Assistant, calling them for recovery costs GTA$1,000 and includes delivery.
After unlocking and purchasing Ballistic Equipment, a delivery costs GTA$5,000. Use Ballistic Equipment Services in the Interaction Menu to request it.
GTA Online business activities, including sell missions, can be started in private sessions. Choose an Invite Only, Crew or Friends session before beginning the sale.
The host needs a Facility and must register as a VIP, CEO or MC President. Start from the Facility’s planning screen. The leader pays the setup cost; invited crew do not pay it.
The Kortz Center Heist uses the Art Studio expansion in an owned Mansion. It supports one to four players. Launch preparations from the Art Studio’s Planning Board or by calling Raf.
Use SecuroServ on the CEO office computer to access Vehicle Cargo and review Vehicle Warehouses. The Ad-Hawk Autos laptop inside the Vehicle Warehouse handles exports.
Galaxy Super Yachts are sold through DockTease, with Orion, Pisces and Aquarius models. You can own one. A yacht cannot be driven, but it can be relocated for a fee.
Mansions are available through Prix Luxury Real Estate. Their assistant can temporarily boost a selected business’s production, arrange fast travel to owned properties and businesses, and organize parties.
Update 1.73 changed heist rewards and made eligible bonuses depend on whether the host has completed that finale in the weekly period. Cayo Perico target values and repeat-target rules also changed.
If GTA Online through the Xbox app on PC cannot access chat, Crews or jobs, Rockstar recommends checking both Rockstar communication preferences and Xbox privacy settings for communication, multiplayer and community content.