How come this only spawns one item?

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#1 
local randomPartsFolder = game.Workspace.ItemSpawns:GetChildren()

local RandomObjects = game.ServerStorage.Items:GetChildren()

wait(5)

local function randomSpawn()

local pos = randomPartsFolder[math.random(2, #randomPartsFolder)]

local randomClones = RandomObjects[math.random(2, #RandomObjects)] -- This is the 
one I need help with. It only spawns one item

randomClones.Position = pos.Position

randomClones.Parent = workspace

print(randomClones.Name)

end
randomSpawn()

Yeah, it only spawns one thing out of the 4 things in the folder.

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#2

It only spawns one item because you are only selecting one item. If you want it to spawn multiple things, put randomSpawn() into a for loop.

Also, I would suggest using Roblox’s Random object instead of math.random for “more reliable” random numbers, I guess you could say.

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#3

You need to loop this, or use an event, and just get it to fire an event the number of tools wanted. Hope this helped!

#4

Yeah, I did that right after I posted. Also I’ll probably switch to using the Random object thing. Thanks for the help

#5

An event would be bad to do something like this, as exploiters can just fire it repeatedly. Also I found the solution, thanks though!

#6

Oh OK, thanks for letting me know!

#7

I think they use the same generator, the Random object just has prettier syntax. Edit: You can have multiple Random objects while you can only ever use math.random. They’re fairly different, but the actual numbers themselves aren’t more reliable.

Based on:

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#8

math.random and the Random API use the same algorithm but I think it may be more than just pretty syntax? Random is an object with methods based around it, while math.random is a function and any modifiers are independent of it (such as using math.randomseed).

math.randomseed(tick()) -- Change seed relative to environment
math.random()

-- vs

Random.new(tick()) -- Change seed relative to object
Random:Next[Number/Integer] -- Get a direct number, no after-math (pun unintended)
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Is there a way I can pick a random local value that is listed in a script?
#9

Yeah, Random is pretty different, but the numbers aren’t really more reliable like unrect said.

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#10

For sure. I don’t know what “numeric reliability” is between Random and math.random. That’s unimportant, it’s a random number generator. There is no such thing as reliability between either method. Me personally though, I prefer Random mainly because

A. I don’t want to do extra math; I just want my number as in when I call it.
B. Seed relativity.
C. Branching.

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