Cannot store Dictionary in data store. Data stores can only accept valid UTF-8 characters

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Hi! So I made a custom character creation system, and when they finished it, they get teleported back to the lobby. I wanna make it so when they hit ‘x’ button, the custom character they made will load back without losing any data. The problem is : I get this error :

09:06:32.823 104: Cannot store Dictionary in data store. Data stores can only accept valid UTF-8 characters. - Server - DataStore1:99

I checked out devhub + devforum, but I couldn’t really find anything.

Here is my script so far

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local slot1 = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("Slot1")
local HTTP = game:GetService("HttpService")







game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local folder = Instance.new("Folder",player)
	folder.Name = "Slot1"
	local c = game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacter:Clone()
	c.Parent = folder
	
	local playerUserId = "Player_"..player.UserId
	local data
	local succes, errormessage = pcall(function()
		data = slot1:GetAsync(playerUserId, slot1)
	end)

	if succes then
		local data = {
			mesh = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh;
			ofs = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Offset;
			s = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Scale;
			hc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color;

			sc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor;

			shirt = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Clothing.ShirtTemplate;
			pants = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Pants.PantsTemplate;
			class = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Class.Value;
			code = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.CodeName.Value;

		}
	end
end)

game.StarterGui.InsertedObjects.Slot1.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function(player)
	local playerUserId = "Player_"..player.UserId
	local succes, errormessage = pcall(function()
		local data = {
			mesh = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh;
			ofs = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Offset;
			s = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Scale;
			hc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color;

			sc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor;

			shirt = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Clothing.ShirtTemplate;
			pants = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Pants.PantsTemplate;
			class = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Class.Value;
			code = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.CodeName.Value;

		}
		slot1:SetAsync(playerUserId, data)
	end)

	if succes then
		local data = {
			mesh = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh;
			ofs = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Offset;
			s = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Scale;
			hc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color;

			sc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor;

			shirt = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Clothing.ShirtTemplate;
			pants = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Pants.PantsTemplate;
			class = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Class.Value;
			code = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.CodeName.Value;

		}
		game.StarterGui.InsertedObjects.Slot1.Class.Text = data.class
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local playerUserId = "Player_"..player.UserId
	local data = {
		mesh = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh;
		ofs = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Offset;
		s = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.Scale;
		hc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color;

		sc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor;

		shirt = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Clothing.ShirtTemplate;
		pants = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Pants.PantsTemplate;
		class = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Class.Value;
		code = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.CodeName.Value;

	}
	local playerUserId = "Player_"..player.UserId
	slot1:SetAsync(playerUserId, data)
end)

I’m not a master of datastores, but can someone help me? I would really need it to my game.

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I can load this startercharacter from the slot1 folder, but it doesn’t save the custom character.

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sc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor

“HeadColor” points to a Color3 value which cannot be directly stored within a DataStore, you need to serialize this value first before storing it, for example.

local headColor = Color3.new(1, 1, 1) --White.
local headColorData = {headColor.R, headColor.G, headColor.B} --Serialized data.

When this data is loaded you can subsequently deserialize it by doing the following.

local headColor = Color3.new(table.unpack(headColorData)) --Deserialized data.
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I still get the error. It’s at the last 2 line : when trying to save, it has an error

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hc = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color

You need to do the same with this data too.

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I did it with both of them, but still.

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You need to do it with all of the data values which aren’t your standard primitive types, i.e; numbers, strings, tables etc. I see a few others that serializing as well.

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Still nothing. I tried to change more than just these, but still nothing.

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Is there a way where I can save the startercharactermodel itself or the folder?

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DataStore doesn’t save whole instances, only values such as numbers, strings and tables. It’s your job to save all data that is user-customisable into the player’s data.

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Okay so I changed my script a little bit, but I printed out the values the system had to save, but nothing

local DS = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Data")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local playerUserId = player.UserId
	local folder = Instance.new("Folder",player)
	folder.Name = "Slot1"
	local c = game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacter:Clone()
	c.Parent = folder
	
	DS:GetAsync("key", {
		mesh = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Mesh.MeshId,
		ofs = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.OffsetValue.Value,
		s = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.ScaleValue.Value,
		
		hcR = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color.R,
		hcG = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color.G,
		hcB = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Hair.Color.B,
	 

		scR = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor.r,
		scG = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor.g,
		scB = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter["Body Colors"].HeadColor.b,

		shirt = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Clothing.ShirtTemplate,
		pants = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Pants.PantsTemplate,
		class = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.Class.Value,
		code = player.Slot1.StarterCharacter.CodeName.Value,
	})
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	DS:SetAsync("key",player.UserId)
end)
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I get no errors after this, and I have no idea now.