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COMMUNITY QUESTION

Scripts on part stop working after cloning them through script in ServerScriptService?

Sorry if the title is kind of confusing, couldn't post because of generic wording or something, anyways--

I am trying to make a randomly spawn system, where the script will find a part in a given folder of other parts and clone the item I have given it in ReplicatedStorage on top of that part in the folder. The cloning works - I can have it go randomly and it limits one to each part. However, my script in the item stops working.

Here's the script in place of the item I am cloning:

local proximityPrompt = script.Parent
local stick = script.Parent.Parent 

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- get localplayer
	wait(1) -- allow buffer for leaderstats to load
	proximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function()
		player.leaderstats.Sticks.Value = player.leaderstats.Sticks.Value + 1 -- gives one coin for interaction
		stick:Remove() -- destroys part for interaction
	end)
end)

This is the script of the duplicator:

local stickSpawns = game.Workspace.StickSpawns
local stick = game.ReplicatedStorage.Stick
local stickSpawnTable = stickSpawns:GetChildren()

local maxSticks = #stickSpawnTable
local sticksSpawned = 0

function countSticks()
	sticksSpawned = 0
	for i, s in pairs(stickSpawnTable) do
		if s:FindFirstChild("Stick") then
			sticksSpawned += 1
		end
	end
	return sticksSpawned
end

function StickSpawner()
	while true do
		
		local amountOfSticks = countSticks()
		
		if amountOfSticks < maxSticks then
			local stickClone = stick:Clone()
			local randomSpawn
			
			repeat
				randomSpawn = stickSpawnTable[math.random(1, #stickSpawnTable)]
			until not randomSpawn:FindFirstChild("Stick")

			stickClone.Parent = randomSpawn
			stickClone.CFrame = randomSpawn.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)

		end
		wait(1)
	end
end

wait(1)
spawn(StickSpawner)

Some things I may note, it may be the ProximityPrompt not working inside the script, I've tried adding a print inside of it to debug and got nowhere. Also, the script actually works sometimes, like once in the group of clones then stops. It's random which one does work too.

If you have any other needed info let me know, I cannot figure this out for my life and will do anything to get it fixed.

2 comments

0

I'd like to ask is the script inside the cloned item a LocalScript or a Script?

0

It is a plain Script.

1 answer

Try spawning the part and then cloning the script inside of it then enabling it.

What I mean is, put the script under the cloning script then set the script disabled to true.

When you clone the part, take the script and clone that, enable it then put it in the part

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