Thanks!
Also thanks for showing me the error, I fixed it right away!
No problem dude!
Keep going and making your game, and I hope someday I might be able to see it!
Yeah thanks for liking it, it took me a while to make the tutorial as best as possible!
Awesome!
I know DataStoreService very well but this is an excellent tutorial for beginners!
I will be sharing this!
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Really great tutorial! Is there anyway you can use it if you’ve already creating the leaderstats in another script?
Sorry if it’s a dumb question lol, I’m new to DataStores
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Is there a way that i can load in tools?
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I’d like to see an advanced tutorial soon or it might already exist and my internet isn’t catching up with that. Great beginner tutorial 
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Sorry for the late reply, i haven’t been active as much if you already made 1 data store, look at the top of the script you’ve made and look at your datastore name, then you can use that datastore name in the new script u can make using this tutorial,
Cheers!
There are other tutorials regarding datastores with tools
I tried this and it kept outputting the error.
-- // Assigning variables //
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local dataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("MyDataStore") -- This can be changed to whatever you want
local function saveData(player) -- The functions that saves data
local tableToSave = {
player.leaderstats.Money.Value
}
local success, err = pcall(function()
dataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, tableToSave) -- Save the data with the player UserId, and the table we wanna save
end)
if success then -- If the data has been saved
print("Data has been saved!")
else -- Else if the save failed
print("Data hasn't been saved!")
warn(err)
end
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- When a player joins the game
-- // Assigning player stats //
local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Parent = player
local Playtime = Instance.new("IntValue")
Playtime.Name = "Playtime"
Playtime.Parent = leaderstats
local data -- We will define the data here so we can use it later, this data is the table we saved
local success, err = pcall(function()
data = dataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId) -- Get the data from the datastore
end)
if success then -- If there were no errors and player loaded the data
Playtime.Value = data[1] -- Set the money to the first value of the table (data)
else -- The player didn't load in the data, and probably is a new player
print("The player has no data!") -- The default will be set to 0
end
end)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player) -- When a player leaves
local success, err = pcall(function()
saveData(player) -- Save the data
end)
if success then
print("Data has been saved")
else
print("Data has not been saved!")
end
end)
game:BindToClose(function() -- When the server shuts down
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do -- Loop through all the players
local success, err = pcall(function()
saveData(player) -- Save the data
end)
if success then
print("Data has been saved")
else
print("Data has not been saved!")
end
end
end)
By error, I mean the output says data has not been saved.
That is every time I play, on studio, and on roblox…
I do have API services enabled…
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Simply print the error to allow you to debug it.
Sorry I don’t know what you mean. Could you explain that
The second value returned by a pcall is the error message or the value returned by the function it ran. And so, you could do this:
local Success, Var = pcall(function()
table.sort(nil) -- Would throw an error
end)
if not Success and Var then
error(Var)
end
@DevHelpAccount , no. You need to edit the script, let me just do it for you:
-- // Assigning variables //
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local dataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("MyDataStore") -- This can be changed to whatever you want
local function saveData(player) -- The functions that saves data
local tableToSave = {
player.leaderstats.Money.Value
}
local success, err = pcall(function()
dataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, tableToSave) -- Save the data with the player UserId, and the table we wanna save
end)
if success then -- If the data has been saved
print("Data has been saved!")
else -- Else if the save failed
print("Data hasn't been saved!")
warn(err)
end
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- When a player joins the game
-- // Assigning player stats //
local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Parent = player
local Playtime = Instance.new("IntValue")
Playtime.Name = "Playtime"
Playtime.Parent = leaderstats
local data -- We will define the data here so we can use it later, this data is the table we saved
local success, err = pcall(function()
data = dataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId) -- Get the data from the datastore
end)
if success then -- If there were no errors and player loaded the data
Playtime.Value = data[1] -- Set the money to the first value of the table (data)
else -- The player didn't load in the data, and probably is a new player
print("The player has no data!") -- The default will be set to 0
end
end)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player) -- When a player leaves
local success, err = pcall(function()
saveData(player) -- Save the data
end)
if success then
print("Data has been saved")
else
print("Data has not been saved!")
end
end)
game:BindToClose(function() -- When the server shuts down
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do -- Loop through all the players
local success, err = pcall(function()
saveData(player) -- Save the data
end)
if success then
print("Data has been saved")
else
print("Data has not been saved!")
error(err)
end
end
end)Do I just run that in the command bar?
It says that Money is not a valid member of my player. I use Playtime on mine
Sorry for late response, just change Money with Playtime in the script
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Don’t worry! I have it working! Thanks anyway! 
Edit: Oh, and not “anyway” just thanks for this amazing datastore tutorial! Recommend it!
For some reason, I learnt more about I, v in pairs and tables then I did for datastores
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I made this mistake too, At the top in the local tabelToSave it says player.leaderstats. Money . value, the mistake you made is you re-named the Money to “Playtime”, all you have to is change player.leaderstats. Money . value to: player.leaderstats.Playtime.value and then it should be fixed.
Hope this helps! 
I have a question about that, and is that how it would prevent the loss of data? It is simply expelling it, and when it enters again, what will happen?