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Why does the touch event fire off automatically?

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 local Touchblock = game.Workspace.Touchblock

 local function hmm1()
	if Touchblock.Touched:Connect(hmm1)
	then Touchblock.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
	         return("success")
	    end
	end
	

 hm2 = hmm1()
print(hm2)

Whenever I press play to run over to the part, "Touchblock" to you know, touch it. It's already red and "success" has been printed. I made sure the block was anchored above ground and nothing was touching it. What's going on lol i've been stuck on this for half an hour

Anonymous

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Make your question more clearly please, we don't know what you want to achieve.

Anonymous#
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Well, i'm trying to touch the block, which THEN activates the event, changes the brickcolor and returns "success" in that order specifically

Anonymous#
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why are you only having Touched run once

Anonymous#

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Your problem is the touch event will fire everytime something TOUCH it. Whatever the thing is touch it, it still fire. So if you want only a player touch it, you should put a simple if-then statement:

local Players = game:GetService("Players") --we need this service to check the thing is touching the part is player or not

local function hmm1()
	if Touchblock.Touched:Connect(hmm1) then
		if Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hmm1.Parent) then --this will check is the thing touching it is a player or not
		Touchblock.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
		return("success")
		end
	end
end
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