Help saving int value datastore

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#1

Hello everyone, I wondered if anyone could give me a sample code to save an int value in datastore and save this value when the player enters and leaves the game.

All this is as a learning, if anyone could please give me an example code of how to save an int value in the player with the value 0 I would really appreciate it very much.

What am I going to do with the value 0?
R. What I will do with the value 0 will be to test the roblox player with f9 on the console by adding values and disconnecting and re-entering the game to see if it was saved.

I’ve really seen a lot of videos and read the documentation, that’s why I need sample codes, it would really help me a lot to improve my learning, greetings.

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#2 
local DataStore =  game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("CHANGE_THIS")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

  local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder", player)
  leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
  local Gold = Instance.new("IntValue", leaderstats) -- blah blah make your stats
 
  -- Load data

  local data
  local key = "Player_".. player.UserId
  local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
    data = DataStore:GetAsync(key)
  end)
  if success then
    Gold.Value = data
  elseif data == nil then
    Gold.Value = 0
  else
    warn(errormessage)
  end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
   local key = "Player_".. player.UserId
   
   local data = player.leaderstats.Gold.Value

   DataStore:SetAsync(key, data)
end)

Hopefully this helps

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#3

Thank you very much I really appreciate it, what happens if I don’t need a leaderstats, can I rename the folder so it’s not a leaderstats? And what should I put in CHANGE_THIS?

#4

You can Change the name of the leaderstats folder or delete it, then just set the Value parent to player.
The “CHANGE_THIS” is just the name of the DataStore wich you can change to what ever you want.

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#5

Thank you guys so much! They’ve really helped me and the code is very clear, I understand perfectly, thank you! Have a nice day

#6

Yes you can define it to whatever stat you want

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#7

I just changed some things in the code, is it good? :scream:

script:

local DataStore =  game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("myData")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

	local playerFolder = Instance.new("Folder", player)
	playerFolder.Name = "playerFolder"
	local Gold = Instance.new("IntValue", playerFolder) -- blah blah make your stats
	Gold.Name = "myGold"

	-- Load data

	local data
	local key = "Player_".. player.UserId
	local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
		data = DataStore:GetAsync(key)
	end)
	if success then
		Gold.Value = data
	elseif data == nil then
		Gold.Value = 0
	else
		warn(errormessage)
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local key = "Player_".. player.UserId

	local data = player.playerFolder.Gold.Value

	DataStore:SetAsync(key, data)
end)
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#9

How you you make that value save among all places such as if you have a portal to another place and your shop uses the same currency as both places. Is there a way to pull that same data from the data store from the previous place?

#11

Oh my god you saved me. I was really stressing out about the datastore for my game. Thank you. I really hate datastores lol

#12

With roblox, you have Start Places and Places.
I really cant explain this well, so I’ll just use screenshots.
(This screenshot was taken in studio, in the Asset Manager tab)
Screenshot 2022-09-28 183530

The Start Place and all other Places associated with your game share the same DataStores.
So basically, you can just copy-paste entire datastore scripts across these places and the data will transfer over between places.

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#13

Thank you for that information!