Hi, I am creating an survival game and as you know, it needs to save data. I am not quite sure what it is and I never use it before which is obvious. May someone explain me what it is, how should I start, any code if you want, just to make me understand the Datastore. Everyone says Datastore and storing the player informations but I never had an Idea how to do it. When I hear Datastore I allways think that it's too hard for me but it worths a try! Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time!
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How should I start with saving the player progress with Datastore?
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###Data stores are a storage feature for Roblox games that can be used to save data that will persist even after a game’s server has shut down. They are designed to store custom player data or to control global game configurations. Data stores are shared per game, so any place in a game, including places in different servers, can access and change the same data.
#Structure
###A data store is essentially a dictionary, like a Lua table. Each value in the data store can be indexed by a unique key. For example, if a game needed to save how much experience each player had, it could add to a data store using the player’s user id as the key and the player’s experience as the value. Any place that needed to know how much experience a given player has could access the data store and look up that player’s experience with that player’s id.
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heres an aditional example if you need it: http://robloxdev.com/articles/In-Game-Currency-with-Roblox
Well, i didn't learned pretty much anything.