What is DataStore? Also how to implement it in my games?

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#1

  • I have been thinking how can I implement it in my games, I have been looking forward in saving things. Also how to use it in different ways.

  • I want a simple breakdown and services I can use to make this happen, also other functions and events to use. :grinning:

  • I havenā€™t seen a way I could know, also I have tried learning but itā€™s a little confusing for me.

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#2

Thereā€™s tons of tutorials you couldā€™ve searched on the internetā€¦

When you are familiar with the functions of DataStoreService, you can look on other public modules which specialise in data storing. Take a look at these modules.

#3

DataStore or DataStoreService allows you to store values under special ā€œkeysā€.
For example, whenever some player joins, you check if you have his userid as a datastore key, for example:

local DSS = game:GetService('DataStoreService') -- Init datastore service
local DS = DSS:GetDataStore('PlayerData') -- Get all the data of PlayerData DataStore

game:GetService('Players').PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) -- Create an event
    local data = nil
    local succ = false
    local timeout = 0
    while succ == false and timeout <= 10 do -- Repeat until no errors or attempted 10 times
        local success, err = pcall(function()
            data = DS:GetAsync(plr.UserId)
        end
        task.wait(1)
        succ = success
        timeout += 1
    end
    if data then
        -- Use variables stored under player DataStore
    end
end)

Similar way to store data, you simply use DS:SetAsync(plr.UserId, <data>), where data can be anything such as string, int, table, array.

#4

was there an error or the data:GetAsync(plr.UserId) intentional?

#5

My bad, fixed.

#6

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