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It’s likely that both IntelliJ and Gradle need to be configured to use a proxy when on the VPN

yea but how, I figured it was inputing hosts and ports to the proxy, and those I’ve no clue what they are

If you have usual http proxy you can try to set proxy host/port/auth in IDEA's

File | Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | HTTP Proxy

. If it's not enough you'll likely have to set gradle proxy like described here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html#sec:accessing_the_web_via_a_proxy. Gradle wrapper should use same system properties above. Maybe ide sets these parameters for you but you'll still need them to run gradle (and wrapper) from terminal. Another way is to configure vpn to be used only for internal resources (like for certain subnets and domains). It's system dependent but allows you to avoid sharing all your activity with employer ,)