Clicking on an object in a game does nothing

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I have a house in my game that when clicked while holding a hammer tool I have should get destroyed slowly by reducing its health, when health reaches 0 the house should get destroyed and the player should earn money.
However, every attempt I made to make a script for that failed.
Right now I am trying to do it like this:
In the group representing the house, I put a ClickDetector and a Script.
Here is the script

local house = script.Parent
local healthValue = Instance.new("IntValue")
healthValue.Name = "Health"
healthValue.Value = 100
healthValue.Parent = house

local function onHouseClicked(player)
	print("House clicked:", house.Name)

	-- Check if the player is holding a hammer
	local character = player.Character
	if not character then
		print("Player character not found")
		return
	end

	local tool = character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")
	if not tool then
		print("Player is not holding a tool")
		return
	end

	print("Tool used:", tool.Name)

	-- Determine the damage based on the hammer used
	local damageAmount = 0
	local toolName = tool.Name

	if toolName == "DefaultHammer" then
		damageAmount = 10
	elseif toolName == "Hammer2" then
		damageAmount = 20
	elseif toolName == "Hammer3" then
		damageAmount = 30
	end

	print("Damage amount:", damageAmount)

	-- Reduce the house's health
	if healthValue.Value > 0 then
		healthValue.Value = healthValue.Value - damageAmount

		if healthValue.Value <= 0 then
			-- House has been destroyed
			print(house.Name .. " has been destroyed!")
			house:Destroy()
		else
			print(house.Name .. " health reduced to " .. healthValue.Value)
		end
	end
end

-- Check if the house has a ClickDetector
local clickDetector = house:FindFirstChild("ClickDetector")
if clickDetector then
	-- Connect the click event to the onHouseClicked function
	clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(onHouseClicked)
else
	print("ClickDetector not found in house:", house.Name)
end

This script does nothing though and I can’t figure out why, if anyone has a better idea of how I can do this or how I can script this let me know.

By the way, this is the only game I ever tried making so be kind, its for my nephew :slight_smile: