Check If Player Has Tool (Proximity Prompt)

[9815464308js (NotJS)]

I’m working on a harvestable plant. Once its proximity prompt is activated, it checks if the player has a tool named Sickle.

When I try the script, I receive the following error:

Workspace.Wheat Patch.HitBox.ProximityPrompt.Script:3: attempt to index nil with ‘FindFirstChild’

This is the script:

--Variables
local player = game.Players.Name


--Check Backpack For Sickle
if player.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Sickle") then
	print("Tool exists")
end

What can I do to fix this? Any help is appreciated, thank you!

[42Spider_man42 (nubdudub)]

if you write
print(game.Players.Name)
it will return
Players
because that is the name of the service Players.
so the error means there is no wheat Patch under the name ‘Players’

[Tinfloco_Sushi (Tom)]

Try this:

script.Parent.ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
	    local Backpack = player.BackPack
        local Tool = Backpack:WaitForChild("Sickle")
        if Tool then
              print("Tool exists")
        else
              print("Tool doesn't exists")
        end
end)

[9815464308js (NotJS)]

Did a tiny tweak (Line 1, and changing BackPack → Backpack) and it works! Thank you so much!

script.Parent.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
	
	
	local Backpack = player.Backpack
	local Tool = Backpack:WaitForChild("Sickle")
	
	
	if Tool then
		print("Tool exists")
	else
		print("Tool doesn't exists")
	end
end)

[9815464308js (NotJS)]

Thank you! I was pulling the player’s username wrong. Instead, I should’ve done:

script.Parent.Triggered:Connect(function(player)

[9815464308js (NotJS)]

When the item is equipped, its parent switches to the player instead of the Backpack. How can I check the player instead of the backpack? I tried replacing

Backpack:WaitForChild("Sickle")

with

player:WaitForChild("Sickle")

but it doesn’t work

[Tinfloco_Sushi (Tom)]

When the tool is equipped it is parented to character.
This should work

script.Parent.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
	
	
	local character = player.Character
    local Tool = character:FindFirstChild("Sickle")
	
	
	if Tool then
		print("Tool exists")
	else
		return
	end
end)

[9815464308js (NotJS)]

Ah okay, my bad. Thank you so much!