Castellane Hood

Castellane Hood - Authentic Urban Neighborhood MLO for FiveM

The Castellane Hood MLO brings a detailed urban neighborhood environment to your FiveM server, perfect for gang roleplay, street-level criminal activity, and authentic city living scenarios. This meticulously crafted interior mapping transforms a previously inaccessible area into a fully explorable hood complete with residential buildings, hangout spots, and strategic locations for territory control. Whether you're building a gang-focused RP server, adding depth to your criminal underworld, or creating realistic urban environments for street-level interactions, Castellane Hood provides the atmospheric foundation your community needs.

What's Included

This comprehensive MLO package delivers a complete neighborhood transformation with multiple accessible interiors, exterior props, and environmental detailing. You receive fully optimized interior files for residential buildings including apartments and houses, street-level hangout areas with seating and props, strategic vantage points for territory surveillance, and carefully placed environmental details like graffiti, trash, and urban decay that bring authenticity to the hood atmosphere. The mapping includes collision files for proper physics interaction and optimized prop placement to maintain performance even with multiple players in the area.

Key Location Features

• Residential Interiors - Multiple apartment and house interiors with varying layouts, perfect for gang safehouses, stash locations, or player housing
• Street Hangout Zones - Outdoor gathering areas with seating, tables, and props where players can congregate and conduct street-level RP interactions
• Rooftop Access Points - Strategic elevated positions providing vantage points for territory surveillance or defensive positioning during conflicts
• Back Alley Networks - Connected alleyways creating realistic escape routes and hidden pathways for criminal activities
• Environmental Storytelling - Graffiti tags, abandoned vehicles, trash accumulation, and urban wear creating an authentic hood atmosphere
• Drug Operation Spots - Discrete locations suitable for drug dealing scripts, corner operations, or illicit trade interactions
• Gang Territory Markers - Prop placement and design elements that clearly define territorial boundaries for gang control systems
• Vehicle Parking Areas - Street parking spots and garage access points for gang vehicle storage and quick getaways
• Meeting Rooms - Interior spaces suitable for gang meetings, negotiations, or coordinating criminal enterprises

Perfect For

• Gang-focused RP servers needing authentic urban environments for street-level criminal organizations and territory control
• Criminal roleplay communities wanting realistic locations for drug operations, arms dealing, and underground activities
• Diverse city servers adding working-class neighborhoods to balance wealthy districts and create economic variety
• Territory control gamemodes where gangs compete for neighborhood dominance and resource control
• Character development scenarios involving characters from rough backgrounds or street-level criminal paths
• Law enforcement roleplay providing challenging patrol areas with complex layouts and high-crime zones

Technical Details

• File Format: Optimized .ymap and .ytyp files for FiveM server streaming
• Performance Impact: Well-optimized with approximately 2-3ms impact when players are in the immediate area
• Collision Quality: Full collision mapping for all interior and exterior elements ensuring proper physics interaction
• Texture Resolution: High-quality textures balanced for visual appeal and performance (2K primary, 1K secondary)
• Prop Count: Extensive prop usage (~500+ props) creating detailed environments without excessive performance cost
• Interior Lighting: Carefully placed lighting creating moody atmosphere while maintaining visibility for gameplay
• Compatibility: Works with all frameworks (ESX, QBCore, QBOX, standalone) - pure mapping resource
• Map Coordinates: Located in the Strawberry/Chamberlain Hills area (specific coordinates in documentation)

Installation

1. Extract the castellane-hood folder to your server's resources directory
2. Add ensure castellane-hood to your server.cfg file in the appropriate load order (typically after framework but before scripts using the location)
3. Restart your server to load the MLO files and generate proper streaming
4. Visit the location coordinates (provided in included readme) to verify proper loading and collision
5. Configure any gang territory scripts or housing systems to utilize the new interior spaces
6. Optionally customize prop placement or add additional details using your preferred mapping tools

Framework Compatibility

• ✅ ESX - Fully compatible, use with esx_property for housing, esx_gangs for territory, or any ESX-compatible gang scripts
• ✅ QBCore - Works seamlessly with qb-housing, qb-gangs, or custom QB gang territory systems
• ✅ QBOX - Full compatibility with QBOX housing and gang management resources
• ✅ Standalone - Pure mapping resource requiring no framework - integrate with any custom housing or gang scripts

Roleplay Integration Ideas

Castellane Hood excels when integrated into broader server systems. Use the residential interiors with housing scripts to create affordable hood apartments where new players or street-level characters can establish their first homes. Implement gang territory control systems that make the Castellane area a contested zone where multiple gangs compete for drug sales and influence. Configure drug dealing scripts to utilize the discrete alleyway locations for corner operations, creating hotspots where police and criminals naturally interact. The multiple escape routes and rooftop access make foot chases through the neighborhood genuinely challenging for law enforcement, while the confined spaces create tense environments for gang wars and turf disputes.

What Makes It Stand Out

Unlike generic urban MLOs that simply add accessible interiors, Castellane Hood is purpose-designed for gang roleplay mechanics. The layout reflects how real urban neighborhoods function - strategic sight lines for lookouts, multiple entry/exit points for each building preventing easy raids, connected spaces allowing for complex chases, and environmental storytelling through props and textures that immediately communicate this is gang territory. The performance optimization ensures that even during high-player-count gang wars, the server maintains stability. The attention to authentic urban decay - from graffiti placement to trash accumulation patterns - creates immersion without requiring constant admin maintenance or prop scripts.

Recommended Companion Scripts

To maximize Castellane Hood's potential, consider pairing it with: gang territory control systems that allow factions to claim and defend the neighborhood, drug dealing scripts that utilize the street corners and alley locations, housing scripts for the residential interiors creating player-owned safehouses, and graffiti systems allowing gangs to tag their territory. The MLO is designed to accommodate these systems without requiring modifications to the base mapping files.

Customization & Expansion

The included files can be customized using CodeWalker or other FiveM mapping tools. Server owners commonly add custom gang tags, adjust prop placement to match their specific gang themes, or expand the interior spaces with additional rooms. The modular design allows for these modifications without breaking the core structure or collision systems. Some communities add custom script integrations like interactive drug labs in the apartments, gang weapon caches in hidden rooms, or territory capture points on the rooftops.

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