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How do I keep a purchased item inside a player's inventory after a re-spawn?

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Hello!

I have a purchase script below that allows a player to successfully add an item to their inventory after purchase from the in-game shop and then prevents them from re-purchasing a duplicate item. But I have two problems.

First - after the player re-spawns, the item disappears and is no longer in their inventory. If the player then tries to repurchase the item they're unable to, as they receive the notice that they've already purchased it - which is intended to prevent accidental duplicate purchases. But, how do I make the item survive the respawn and remain usable to the player?

Here is the purchase script below:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local replicatedstorage = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')
local amount = 100
local points = plr.leaderstats.Points
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    if plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild('RocketLauncher') or plr.StarterGear:FindFirstChild('RocketLauncher') or game.Workspace[plr.Name]:FindFirstChild('RocketLauncher')then 
		 script.Parent.Parent.TextLabel.Text = 'You have already bought this item!'
			wait(3)
   		 script.Parent.Parent.TextLabel.Text = 'Welcome to the shop'
   		 else
		
	if plr.leaderstats.Points.Value >= amount then 
  		  	replicatedstorage.RocketLauncher:Clone().Parent = plr.Backpack 
  		  	replicatedstorage.RocketLauncher:Clone().Parent = plr.StarterGear 
			plr.leaderstats.Points.Value = plr.leaderstats.Points.Value - amount  		  
else 
		
local pointsrequired = amount - points.Value 
	script.Parent.Parent.TextLabel.Text = 'You need '..pointsrequired..' more Points to buy this item!'
		wait(3)
	script.Parent.Parent.TextLabel.Text = 'Welcome to the shop'
end
end
end)

Second - After the item is purchased, how do I disable the use of items while inside the Lobby? All of my scripting attempts result in failure, or stops the game. I tried adapting an old Healing Block script by inserting a block to take up the entire lobby with a disabling backpack script, but I've made a real mess of the code:

local isOn = true
function onTouch(hit)
if (isOn == false) then return end
	local human = hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if (human ~= nil) then
game.StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack, false)
local dis = script:FindFirstChild("Disable"):Clone()
	if dis then
		local plrGui = plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
		dis.Parent = plrGui
		dis.Disabled = false
end
end)
turnOff()
end
end
connection = script.Parent.BackPackDisabler.Touched:connect(onTouch)
while true do
	wait(cooldown)
	if (isOn == false) then turnOn() end
end

Thank you very much for any assistance! :)

Anonymous

2 comments

0

put it in StarterGear

Anonymous#
0

I did, but when the character re-spawns, the item is no longer accessible.

Anonymous#

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local wm = Instance.new("Model")
wm.Name = "Weaps"

function give(weap, player) --add a weap to a player's weaps
	--return if they allready have a copy
	for _, w in ipairs(player.Weaps:GetChildren()) do
		if w.Name == weap.Name then return end
	end
	--return if the weaps is a startpack one
	for _, w in ipairs(game.StarterPack:GetChildren()) do
		if w.Name == weap.Name then return end
	end
	--add it to thier weaps
	weap:clone().Parent = player.Weaps
end

game.Players.ChildAdded:connect(function(p)
	wm:clone().Parent = p
	wait()
	p.Character.ChildAdded:connect(function(wep)
		if wep.className == "Tool" then
			give(wep, p)
		end
	end)
	p.Changed:connect(function(pr)
		if pr == "Character" then
			for _, w in ipairs(p.Weaps:GetChildren()) do
				w:clone().Parent = p.Backpack
			end
			p.Character.ChildAdded:connect(function(wep)
				if wep.className == "Tool" then
					give(wep, p)
				end
			end)
		end
	end)
	p.Backpack.ChildAdded:connect(function(h)
		if h.className == "HopperBin" then
			give(h, p)		
		end
	end)
end)
AnonymousPermalink

5 comments

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GotSanity - Thanks for the code, but I'm a bit confused, do I just place the code underneath my purchase script? Or in a separate local script with the purchased item?

Anonymous#
0

Just place the script in workspace.

Anonymous#
0

Thank you! :)

Anonymous#
0

GotSanity - This code does not work. I still can't regain the items after the player re-spawns.

Anonymous#
0

This was solved in the strangest way. I opened up a new session of studio, copied all of the contents from the old one into the new one...and it worked. I changed nothing. I don't understand what happened, but as long as it works. Roblox works in mysterious ways I guess.

Anonymous#

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