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I’m making a disaster game and I’m trying to load disasters.

Code 
 local Disasters = {"Zombie Attack","Tsunami","SANIC"}
 while true do
 	wait(25)
 	local DisasterTable = Disasters[math.random(1,#Disasters)]
 	print("Disaster: "..DisasterTable)
 	local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
 	local Disaster = ServerStorage.DisasterTable:Clone()
 	Disaster.Name = "LoadedDisaster"
 	Disaster.Parent = workspace
 	wait(25)
 	workspace.LoadedDisaster:Destroy()
 end

However, it says that DisasterTable is not a valid member of ServerStorage. I’m not looking for an object named DisasterTable however.

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You are. You directly indexed DisasterTable on ServerStorage.

DisasterTable isn’t a table either its just a random selection from the table at the top so its more like “ChosenDisaster”

With that, just do this ServerStorage[DisasterTable] or change the DisasterTable to whatever new variable name if you decide changing it.

Using . is syntax sugar for the [ ] if you need ask why instead of . since it requires a specific index based on name instantly defined opposed to [ ] that accepts variables and etc.

I recommend keeping ServerStorage variable outside the loop so you don’t have to define it constantly when the loop runs an iteration.

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