Cloning not working the second time?

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#1

i have a basic cloning script, but when I dup the script to another block, it don’t work
here’s the script:

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local fire = game.ReplicatedStorage.Fire:Clone()
	fire.Parent = hit.Parent
	wait(0.5)
	fire:Destroy()
	print("lol")

end)
#2

Can you tell more about the issue? Are there any errors? Does nothing happen? Have you tried checking manually if it did anything? What about the “print(“lol”)”, did it log?

#3

it did print, but the script wasn’t working OR I somehow deleted the original?

#4

You probably want to mention ReplicatedStorage (and even the Object you want to clone) out of the Touched event.
Try using this code for your script:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Fire = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Fire")

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
		print("Humanoid exists")
		local CloneFire = Fire:Clone()
		print("Cloned the 'Fire' Object")
		CloneFire.Parent = hit.Parent
		print("Parented the 'Fire' Object")
		wait(0.5)
		CloneFire:Destroy()
		print("Cloned 'Fire' Object has been destroy!")
		print("lol")
	end
end)
#5

how would i make it only clone once? i just realized its cloning too much lol

#6

You can use debounces to stop it from cloning too much. But there is another method where you can check if the object already exists in the character or not.

Here is the full code:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Fire = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Fire")

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
		if not hit.Parent:FindFirstChild(Fire.Name) then -- only if the object is not inside the character

			print("Humanoid exists")
			local CloneFire = Fire:Clone()
			print("Cloned the 'Fire' Object")
			CloneFire.Parent = hit.Parent
			print("Parented the 'Fire' Object")
			wait(0.5)
			CloneFire:Destroy()
			print("Cloned 'Fire' Object has been destroy!")
			print("lol")
		end
	end
end)