How do you make a Tool Cooldown?

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How to make a Tool Cooldown?

I surely know how to make it but what I want is like a tool timer, like example:

Tool Name = Sword

You have used the tool, and the cooldown is 10 seconds, the name of the tool changes to how many seconds does the cooldown have, it’s like, the number decreases until it turns 0. And when after the 0, the tool name will be changed back into the name “sword”.

For short, all I want is a tool cooldown the shows up to the name of the tool.

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You can put a while loop, get a delay variable that sets it to the delay you want, then it does -1 from the delay variable and then it sets the tool name to the delay variable. It would do this for how many seconds you want and when it reaches 0 you can set the tool name to sword. If you could send a code example so I can see your existing code, that would be great.

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I’m not sure if you mean something like this but there you go:

local tool = script.Parent
local toolName = tool.Name

local cooldown = 10 -- seconds

for i = cooldown, 0, -1 do
	task.wait(1)
	tool.Name = toolName .. " (Cooldown: " .. i .. ")"
end
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it will be shown like this, decreasing by 1 every 1 second

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Here is a quick script I made

local cooldown = false -- Cooldown boolean
local maxTime = 5 -- Set your cooldown here
local cooldownTime = script.Parent:WaitForChild("CooldownTime") -- Number Value inside the tool

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function() -- When the tool is activated
	
	--[[ Do everything you want to do with the tool here before the cooldown]]
	
	print("Tool was activated") -- Print
	
	if cooldown then -- If the cooldown is active
		
		print("Wait ".. cooldownTime.Value) -- Print
		
		return -- Return
	else -- If the cooldown isn't active
		
		cooldown = true -- The cooldown will be active
		
		script.Parent.CooldownTime.Value = maxTime -- Set the cooldown time to the max cooldown time
		
		while cooldown do -- While the cooldown is active
			
			if cooldownTime.Value == 0 then -- If the cooldown is over then
				
				cooldown = false -- Set the cooldown to false
				
				script.Parent.Name = "Sword" -- Set back the name
				
				break -- Stop the loop just in case
				
			else -- If the cooldown time is not 0
			
				cooldownTime.Value = cooldownTime.Value - 1 -- Subtract 1 
				
				script.Parent.Name = cooldownTime.Value -- Set the name to the cooldown time
			
				wait(1) -- Wait 1 second
			end
		end
	end
end)

Here is a free model as well
https://www.roblox.com/library/10074555004/Cooldown-Tool-For-the-dev-forum

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You can do, cooldownTime.Value -= 1 instead, it just speeds up your coding and it’s a good practice.

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I forgot I could do that thanks lol :man_facepalming:t3:

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