So, I am making a game with a weaponry system and a key part of the concept is the ability to save Tools WITH ammunition, Ammunition being a NumberValue that is stored in the gun.
I've been struggling to find any solid answers for this exact problem for about 1-2 days, and still have no idea of how to realise this. Hope posting here will give any help.
You will need to serialize the data that you're saving.
Essentially, since you can't save an Instance or a table, you can make it look something like this instead:
DataStore:SetAsync(player, "Rifle/15") -- Let's say the 15 represents the amount of ammo they have when saving.
In this example, you can use string.split to separate them by the / - so this gives you an array containing "Rifle" and "15". From there you can use these to give the player a Rifle and set it's ammo to 15.
A more in-depth tutorial on serialization can be found here: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-to-save-parts-and-the-idea-of-serialization/524311
You actually can save tables now, it converts into a kind of string code and when you use GetAsync its converted back into a table.
Big thanks !
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Use datastores, save tools/values by its names and accoding values
I'll try that, lets see.