Drawing only some values from a datastore

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You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

I want to be able to get data from a key in my datastore without loading the entire thing.

  1. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

In my game, (https://www.roblox.com/games/7367797049/Obby-Lobby) I have a level loading system. There’s multiple menus when searching for levels, but it takes a while to load them all, as they load every part of the datastore, including all the level data, even when I’m only looking for the name and creator, for example. Is there any way to take data from a datastore, without doing a :GetAsync() on the whole thing?

  1. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

I haven’t tried much yet, as I don’t know how to do this. I have looked for solutions, but haven’t found anyone else asking about this same thing. My only other idea is to just make a seperate datastore just for the names, ids, etc… but I don’t know how to “convert” all of them over.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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I don’t BELIEVE there is a way, but there very much could be. However, I think it would be smarter to PreLoad it, or use Datastore2 where you can seperate the Data into one Master key.

Basically meaning:

Values to save:

  • Level
  • Time Played
  • Rank

Datastore2 would let you do Datastore2.Combine("MasterKeyNameHere", "Level", "TimePlayed", "Rank") and still be able to access all of them separately.