Detecting when a Player falls into the Void

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#1

I’m trying to detect when the player falls into the void, I assume that when the Player or any other instance falls into the void it gets destroyed? I used Humanoid Health although It didn’t work is there another way to do that?

-- Variables

local replicatedService = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Character = workspace:FindFirstChild(game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name)

-- Code (playerDeath)

repeat wait() until game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

if game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid.Health <= 0 then
	
	replicatedService.minigameEvents.playerDeath:FireServer(script.Parent.playerDeath.Value)
	print("Player:" , game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name , "Has Died..")
	
end
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#2

There’s a few performance improvements and changes that you could’ve did

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer -- when a local script loads, the localplayer has already loaded, you don't need to loop to check for it
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait() -- get the character or wait for it to load
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") -- get the humanoid

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remoteEvent = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("minigameEvents").playerDeath

humanoid.Died:Connect(function() -- detect when the player died
   remoteEvent:FireServer(script.Parent.playerDeath.Value)
end)

You could do this to update the script whenever the player dies (depending on where it’s placed)

If this is a local script in starter character scripts, you can keep the previous script, but if it’s placed anywhere else, consider the following:

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer -- when a local script loads, the localplayer has already loaded, you don't need to loop to check for it
local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remoteEvent = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("minigameEvents").playerDeath

local character -- this is an upvalue, this is essentially "local character = nil"
local humanoid

local function CreatePlayerData(char) -- this is a function to create updated upvalues in the script
   character = char -- set the character upvalue to the "char" parameter
   humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") -- set the humanoid variable to the new humanoid

   humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
      remoteEvent:FireServer(script.Parent.playerDeath.Value)
   end)
end

player.CharacterAdded:Connect(CreatePlayerData) -- whenever the player respawns, this function is called to reset the script
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#3

The character model is not destroyed when a player falls into the void, only the parts that are children of the character will. The Humanoid will enter the Dead state though, so you can always check for that. The reason why your code originally didn’t work is because your check only runs immediately after LocalPlayer is non-nil.

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