Datastore Saving Question

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I’m incredibly new to Datastores and so far… I hate them… I hate them a lot… but I gotta learn how to do this (regardless of my hatred) so here I am.

My question:
I’m creating a system that needs to save items like clothing, helmets, tools, etc. and I’m wondering if this (below) is a viable way to do so or if it’s gonna make my game implode.

I figured I’d put all of the items from the game in a series of folders and pretty much just loop through the folders and place them into categorized tables within the player’s main table + a bool that details whether the player own’s the item or not.

PlrTable {
     PlrOutfits{
          PinkOutfit = true, -- The items inserted from the loop
          BlueOutfit = false, --  The bool for whether the player owns it or not
          OrangeOutfit = false
        }

     PlrHats{
          BlueHat = false,
          GreenHat = true, 
          PurpleHat = true
        }

     PlrTools{
          Shovel = true,
          Flashlight = true,
          Grenade = true
        }
   }

So what I’m asking is whether this is a good, and somewhat efficent way to save or if there’s another route I should go.

Thanks for reading and helping me out!

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You’re about to hate datastores a lot more: You can’t save objects to datastores.

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This is pretty efficient but can run into problems. What happens when you rename PinkOutfit to something like MagentaOutfit?

@Azurlified they’re not saving objects at all, just their names

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Oh I’m actually aware, I’m just saving the names of them and fetching the items later via other methods.

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Oops sorry, I didn’t read the code my bad :), I’ll write up a solution right now

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Well I won’t be manually naming them in the script, for example the outfit would be in its own folder named “PinkOutfit” and the name would be fetched by the script during a loop prior to actually saving the table to the player.

Edit: The loop would go thru something like this,

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and fetch all of the items and the categories they are in.

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You can save strings, you can save anything!
Make your own “encoding” and “Decoding” to get information about the object and create it.

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I know I can save the strings, I’m asking if my method of doing this is effecient.

I’m not really looking to make objects, rather just check if a player owns an item and cloning it from storage.