How do I add more currencies to this leaderboard?

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#1

How can I add more currencies in this script here is the script:

local ds = game:GetService(“DataStoreService”):GetDataStore("–Cash01")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local key = “cash-”…player.userId
local folder = Instance.new(“Folder”,player)
folder.Name = “leaderstats” 
local currency = Instance.new(“IntValue”,folder)
currency.Name = “Cash
currency.Value = 0 – Starting Cash

local save = ds:GetAsync(key)
if save then
currency.Value = save
end
currency.Changed:Connect(function()
ds:SetAsync(key,currency.Value)
end)


end)

Issue solved thanks for helping me guys :slight_smile: I appreciate it!

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#2

Hint

Creating
In order to add another currency or stats to your leaderstats, just repeat the code of:

local currency = Instance.new("IntValue", folder)
currency.Name = "YourCurrencyName"
currency.Value = 0

Saving
Save the values in a table, dictionary specifically, then use the DataStore:GetAsync()(not recommended from what I know).

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#3

Ok thanks I will try in a test game

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#4

It would be nice if you attempted to do this yourself first before asking around. You also seem to sport a bit of a malformed code block there. In the future, when posting code to the forums, enclose it within a code block. You can accomplish this with either three back ticks or the code block tool in your post tools bar.

That aside, to add more currencies, you simply expand the number of values you need to work with. Once that’s done, all you need to do is group those values together into a dictionary and save them to a DataStore, or convert a table return back into your values.

A note that you should never be running a save function every time a value changes, as that is bad practice. Switch over to save either when the player leaves, the server closes or through a background autosave thread.

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#5

PROBLEM IN THE SCRIPT

Okay there are 2 problems. Firstly, the currency is saving every single time it’s changed. Not only will that throttle the DataStore limit, but once there’s an error, it will stop the script entirely and stop it from running at all.

To stop a script from shutting down upon error, wrap it in a pcall.

WHAT YOU ACTUALLY ASKED FOR

When you save a datastore, you can save all the player data to one key by setting the datastore to a table.

Saving Data 
local DataStoreService = game:GetService('DataStoreService')
local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore(YourDataStoreName)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
local PlayerData = {} --This is a table! Used for storing multiple pieces of data

PlayerData.Cash = player.leaderstats.Cash.Value --This saves the value of their cash to the index "Cash" in the table
PlayerData.Food = player.leaderstats.Food.Value --A bit silly, but just to show you can put any string in a table

--As many as you want. Set any amount of data
local Save,Error = pcall(function() --pcalling so that if it goes wrong, (invalid values etc) It wont cancel
DataStore:SetAsync(player.userId,PlayerData)
end

end)
Loading Data 
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local leaderstats = Instance.new('Folder')
leaderstats.Name = 'leaderstats'
leaderstats.Parent = player

local Food = Instance.new('StringValue',leaderstats)
Food.Name = 'Food'
--Set a starter word if you want

local cash = Instance.new('NumberValue',leaderstats)
cash.Name = 'cash'
--Set a starter value if you want

local SavedData,Error = pcall(function()
local Data = DataStore:GetAsync(player.userId)
if Data then
Food.Value = Data.Food
Cash.Value = Data.Cash
end
end)

if SavedData then
print('Loaded data for', player.userId)
end
end)
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