Data Storing [NEED HELP]

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This isn’t a scripting question per-sey, however I think it would fall under here or #help-and-feedback:game-design-support - I’ll move if needed.

However, I’m wondering how I would store the following data for a player:

  • Purchases
  • Progressive Quests completed & progress in them (ex: get 10 points using X tool)
  • Other data like this.

I am needing help with the scripting of it and the actual theory behind how DataStore works and how I would effectively store this.

Would I store it all in 1 DataStore? Would I store it in multiple?

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Store all the data in a table. Purchases like game-passes can go in a different data store, but pretty much all in-game data like quests, currency, etc… go into the main data store for players.

You’d do something like this.

local Purchases = {} — save this to a Purchases data store for game-passes

local PlayerData = { — save this off to the PlayerData store
    Points = 100,
    Quests = {}
}

You should be learning how data stores work though.

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That’s what I’m trying here.
So basically, you can use DataStore to store tables? Does that also work for sub tables?

4

DataStores can save all the primitive types and tables. There’s plenty of tutorials for you to go learn from.

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I always create a single DataStore in the DataStoreService. Every time a player joins, I create a table with all the data inside it, and then use GetAsync() to check for player data, and replace the table with the saved table. I then store the data with the player’s Id in a global variable as such:

_G.PlayerData = {}

I put separate tables inside the data table to hold purchases, and quests, e.g,

_G.PlayerData[Player] = {
    Quests = {
        TimeProgress = 0,
        Completed = 0,
        Goal = ""
    },
    Purchases = {
        --purchased inventory
    }
}

This also allows all server scripts to access the players data to process them.

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