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How to save hats when player leaves in game?

Asked Feb 7, 2019438 views2 answers

`local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Event = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Events"):WaitForChild("SaveMyHats")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local Stats = Instance.new("Configuration", player)
	Stats.Name = "Hats"
end)

can't seem to figure out rest any guidance please? I want this data store to save when a player gets a hat and saves when it he/she rejoins. I believe their has to be a folder for it to save for this type of script.

Edit: formatted code

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019Edited Feb 7, 2019

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You can't physically save a Hat instance in datastore. You would instead save a table of Hat names or unique hat IDs the player owns. When the player join again, you would load in their hats using the same table.

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019#

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There is an example on adding 'Hats' to leaderboard. This should work if your game is published to Roblox:

local DSService = game:GetService('DataStoreService'):GetDataStore('Hamburger223232')
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
 
	local uniquekey = 'id-'..plr.userId
	local leaderstats = Instance.new('IntValue', plr)
	local savevalue =  Instance.new('IntValue')
	leaderstats.Name = 'leaderstats'
	savevalue.Parent = leaderstats
	savevalue.Name = 'Hats'
 
 
	local GetSaved = DSService:GetAsync(uniquekey)
	if GetSaved then
		savevalue.Value = GetSaved[1]
	else
	  	local NumbersForSaving = {savevalue.Value}
	  	DSService:SetAsync(uniquekey, NumbersForSaving)
 	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(plr)
	local uniquekey = 'id-'..plr.userId
	local Savetable = {plr.leaderstats.Hats.Value}
	DSService:SetAsync(uniquekey, Savetable)
end)

Make sure this is a NORMAL script. You can put it to ServerScriptService or workspace EDIT: If you get an error like 403: Cannot write to DataStore from studio if API access is not enabled. just go to this website, find your game, click on the game's name (not at Start Place: ..., above), find Enable Studio Access to API Services, check that, click on save and you done!

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019Edited Feb 7, 2019Permalink

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Then where do I put the hats where I want it to save?

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019#

Because I'm not looking for a leaderboard I'm looking for a script when a player receivves a hat it saves.

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019#

I think you can hide that if you want (because your hats' number will show up for every player), but if you do that what I wrote for your other comment, you can give any player any number of hats score, and it will save

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019#

yes this one is copied from alvinbloxx https://youtu.be/tOOS9lMIYes my bad

AnonymousFeb 8, 2019#

So incapaxx you still saying I copied from alvinbloxx?? Well, I learnt this DataSaving from him, but if someone ask where did I learnt that, I would say alvinbloxx. Also, why do I need to tell where did I read that? I bet there are many-many comments/answers on this forum where people copied from someone, and didn't told where from. I just helped the guy. Sorry if you think I copied from him..

AnonymousFeb 10, 2019#

Where do the hats go then?

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019Permalink

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What hats? You have the 'hats' in the leaderboard. It's located at playername.leaderstats.Hats . You can change it's value from a script like game.Players.Miniller.leaderstats.Hats.Value = 5 this will give me 5 hats on the leaderboard

AnonymousFeb 7, 2019#

Dude, if you join the game, the 'Hats' as intValue will be located at game.Players.lavranzo.leaderstats.Hats . You can change it's value by changing game.Players.lavranzo.leaderstats.Hats.Value . This will save when player leave the game, and will give back the score when player rejoins

AnonymousFeb 8, 2019#

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