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I'm having trouble with a leaderboard and datastore variables, can someone help?

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StarMarine614Classic 14

7 years ago

Title: I'm having trouble with a datastore and leaderboard, I'm a beginner at datastore, can some please help?

ServerScriptServiec.leaderstats:18: attempt to index local 'saved' (a nil value)

01local datastore = game:GetService('DataStoreService'):GetDataStore("Friends")
02 
03game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
04        local leaderstats = Instance.new("IntValue", player)
05        local friends = Instance.new("IntValue", leaderstats)   
06 
07        leaderstats.Name = 'leaderstats'
08        friends.Name = "Friends"
09 
10        local uniquekey = "friends-"..player.userId
11        local pointsvalue = player.leaderstats.Friends.Value
12        local saved = datastore:SetAsync(uniquekey, pointsvalue)        
13 
14 
15        if saved then
16            pointsvalue = saved[1]
17            else
18            saved:GetAsync(uniquekey, pointsvalue)
19        end    
20 
21 
22 
23 
24end)
25 
26game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(player)
27    local pointsvalue = player.leaderstats.Friends.Value
28    local uniquekey = "friends-"..player.userId 
29 
30    datastore:SetAsync(uniquekey, pointsvalue)
31end)
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You save and load data through the data store. You are trying to save it through the value returned from a data store. User#5423 17 — 7y

Could you explain that? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that. StarMarine614Classic 14 — 7y

I'm having trouble with a leaderboard and datastore variables, can someone help?

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