tattoos.json

Ships with every base game tattoo up to 2026. Only edit it to add tattoos your server streams.

This file is read by each player’s game, not by the server. Players see changes after they reconnect, and errors appear in their F8 console rather than the server console.

Format

{
  "version": 1,
  "tattoos": [
    { "collection": "mytattoos_overlays", "name": "mytattoos_01_M", "zone": "torso", "gender": "male" },
    { "collection": "mytattoos_overlays", "name": "mytattoos_02_A", "zone": "addon", "gender": "both", "label": "Anchor" }
  ]
}

Field	Required	Meaning
collection	Yes	The overlay collection the tattoo is in.
name	Yes	The overlay name.
zone	Yes	Which list it shows in, see below.
gender	No	male, female, or anything else for both. Default both.
label	No	The name shown. Without one it is numbered, like the base game tattoos.

Zone	List
hair, head, torso, leftArm, rightArm, leftLeg, rightLeg	That part of the body.
badge	The badge overlays.
addon	A list of its own, only shown once something is in it.

A tattoo listed twice is used once.

Finding a missing tattoo

With the debugging convar on, vmenu_character_tattoos lists every decoration on your current ped and whether the file knows it. vmenu_character prints the whole character.