Destroy() only temporarily destroying objects

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I have been programming a game called Frenzy Sprint. One of the items you can buy in a shop is a trail, but all of a sudden the code that unequips the trails stopped working. It literally worked a couple hours ago, but now clicking “unequip” does absolutely nothing on the server side. When I look at what’s going on in the Workspace, the trails go away for about half of a second and then come right back.

The system of equipping/unequipping (Idk if “unequipping” is a word, but I’ll use it anyway :wink:) items works this way:

  • A bool value determines whether the equip button should function as an “equip” or “unequip” button
  • Equip section works, so I won’t describe
  • Unequip section invokes a RemoteFunction; code will be explained
  • If RemoteFunction returns true, the equip button will display that

The issue is that it returns true, but the items come back after a very short period of time. So essentially the RemoteFunction runs its course but the trails just come back almost right away.

I have a couple trails in the store, but I’ll use the Blue trail as an example. Here is the code inside of the LocalScript (a child of the Equip button):

local equipped = script.Parent.Parent.Equipped
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
	if equipped.Value == false then
		local equip = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("EquipTrail"):InvokeServer("Blue")
		if equip == true then
			--This section works; deleted code in the forum for brevity
		end
	else
		local unequip = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("UnequipTrail"):InvokeServer("Blue")
		if unequip == true then --If it returns true, that means it was successful
			equipped.Value = false
			script.Parent.Text = "Equip"
		end
	end
end)

In ServerScriptService, I took out a snippet of the code that refers to destroying, equipping, and unequipping the blue trail:

Destroying trails:

local function destroyAllTrails(player)
    local char = player.Character

	if char.Head:FindFirstChild("BlueTrail") ~= nil then
		char.Head.BlueTrail:Destroy()
		char.Head.TrailAttachment0:Destroy()
		char.HumanoidRootPart.TrailAttachment1:Destroy()
	end
end

Equipping the trail:

game.ReplicatedStorage.EquipTrail.OnServerInvoke = function(player, trailColor)

	if trailColor == "Blue" then
		destroyAllTrails(player)
		local char = player.Character
		local ServerStorage = game.ServerStorage.BlueTrail:Clone()
		ServerStorage.Parent = char.Head
		local attachment0 = Instance.new("Attachment",char.Head)
		attachment0.Name = "TrailAttachment0"
		local attachment1 = Instance.new("Attachment",char.HumanoidRootPart)
		attachment1.Name = "TrailAttachment1"
		ServerStorage.Attachment0 = attachment0
		ServerStorage.Attachment1 = attachment1
		return true
	end
end

And… last but not least, unequipping the trails:

game.ReplicatedStorage.UnequipTrail.OnServerInvoke = function(player, trailColor)
	local char = player.Character

	if trailColor == "Blue" then
		if char.Head:FindFirstChild("BlueTrail") ~= nil then
			char.Head.BlueTrail:Destroy()
			char.Head.TrailAttachment0:Destroy()
			char.HumanoidRootPart.TrailAttachment1:Destroy()
            return true
    		end
    	end
    end

So far, I’ve tried reverting the version to a version before the issue happened, but there was no success. There were tons of different things I tried, but nothing worked. I also looked up Remove() but apparently it’s now deprecated so that probably wouldn’t work. If anyone could help me out with this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

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#2

first, you probably already are anyway, but make sure you write equipped.Value = true underneath where you write equip == true in the local script. Secondly, write print() everywhere in both scripts to see when and how far the code runs.

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#3

Did you try to use FireServer instead of InvokeServer? Also if you Destroy() an instance. It shouldn’t be able to come back. Read this article for more information about Instance:Destroy(). And one question, how long does it exactly take for the trail to come back?

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