How can I create a datastore that saves a players progress-?

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Rest of Title: when the player leaves but loads the data back when they rejoin the game

So my tycoon format and layout is based off of GamerM8's Tycoon Series, I have tried looking at other videos of how to make a data saving datastore and modify it to try and save the tycoon I am using/made. The problem is, is that I don't know how to save and reload like droppers, walls, and stuff.

This is the buying function:

01for i,v in pairs(Buttons:GetChildren()) do
02    local NewItem = BoughtItems:FindFirstChild(v.Item.Value)
03    if NewItem ~= nil then
04        Items[NewItem.Name] = NewItem:Clone()
05        NewItem:Destroy()
06    else
07        v.Transparency = 1
08        v.CanCollide = false
09 
10        v.ButtonPart.BillboardGui.TextLabel.Visible = false
11 
12    end
13    if v:FindFirstChild("Dependency") then
14        coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
15            v.ButtonPart.Transparency = 1
16            v.ButtonPart.CanCollide = false
17            v.ButtonPart.BillboardGui.TextLabel.Visible = false
18            if BoughtItems:WaitForChild(v.Dependency.Value, 100000) then
19                v.ButtonPart.Transparency = 0
20                v.ButtonPart.BillboardGui.TextLabel.Visible = true
21                v.ButtonPart.CanCollide = true
22            end
23        end))
24    end
25    v.ButtonPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
26        if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
27            local Player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
28            if Values.OwnerValue.Value == Player then
29                if v.ButtonPart.CanCollide == true and v.ButtonPart.Transparency == 0 then
30                    if Player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Money.Value >= v.Price.Value then
31                        Player.leaderstats.Money.Value -= v.Price.Value
32                        Items[v.Item.Value].Parent = BoughtItems
33                        v:Destroy()
34                    end
35                end
36            end
37        end
38    end)
39end
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And this is my Data saving script (its in the same script)

01local DataStoreService = game:GetServices("DataStoreService")
02 
03local PlayerData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("PlayerData")
04local UserOwnsTycoon = false
05local data = {}
06 
07game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
08    UserOwnsTycoon = false
09    while true do
10        if player.leaderstats.OwnsTycoon == true then
11            UserOwnsTycoon = true
12            break
13        end
14    end
15    while true do
16        if UserOwnsTycoon == true then
17            PlayerData:GetAsync(player.UserId)
18            data = PlayerData:GetAsync(player.UserId, data)
19            -- Don't know why to put here
20        end
21    end
22end)
23 
24 
25 
26game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
27    for i,v in pairs(BoughtItems:GetChildren()) do
28        data = v.Name
29        PlayerData:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.leaderstats.Money.Value, data) -- Didn't work the first time I tried
30    end
31end)
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This is what the model layout looks like, and the items in "BoughtItems" are not there until you buy them

Can anyone please help me? And last note, this is based off of GamerM8s Tycoon Series.

How can I create a datastore that saves a players progress-?

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