Say I make a crafting system in my game. You needs 5 apples to craft 1 golden apple. The apples are tools in the player's backpack. How can I go about checking if the player has 5 individual apples in their backpack without ending up checking the same apple 5 times?
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How can I check if a player has X amount of something in their backpack?
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Why not use for loops to check the amount of apple in Player's Backpack?
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Apple = 0
for _,v in pairs(Player:WaitForChild("Backpack"):GetChildren()) do--Get the Children's in Player's Backpack.
if v.Name == "Apple" then--Check if Backpack's Child name is Apple if so continue.
Apple.Value = Apple.Value + 1--Keeps track the number of apple.
end
end
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count = 0
local children = player.Backpack:GetChildren()
while true do
for i = 1, #children do
if children[i].Name = "Apple" then
count = count + 1
end
if count >= 5 then
-- you can make an apple
end
wait(1)
end
So basically when you make the golden apple, you should reduce the count value by 5.
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