How do you save a datastore as a table?

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#1

Im currently making a game that has about 20+ stats per player and I have noticed that if a lot of people are in a server the datastore requests become full so I found that you can save a table for the stats and then 1 datastore for the table. I have tried to do this but I can not figure out how to save the table. I would like to do it where I dont have to type a new value for each stat if possible but if not I can do it.

#2

Hi you can do this by creating a dictionary and setting the values you want

local t = {}

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
      t[Player.UserId] = {} -- create another table for each individual player
      t['Money'] = 50 -- create a value for Money or whatever you are trying to save
      --create more values if you have more 

      --Saving the table

      Datastore:SetAsync(Player.UserId, t[Player.UserId]) -- saves the table using the players userid as the key

end)
#3

You forgot to put access the player’s unique table in there to save it. You set t.Money and not t[UserId].Money

local t = {}

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
      t[Player.UserId] = {} -- create another table for each individual player
      t[Player.UserId]['Money'] = 50 -- create a value for Money or whatever you are trying to save
      --create more values if you have more 

      --Saving the table

      Datastore:SetAsync(Player.UserId, t[Player.UserId]) -- saves the table using the players userid as the key

end)
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#4

You can just add all the key’s or values to the table and save that table. SetAsync(key, table)

local t = {}

t.test = "b" -- sugar for t["test"]

DataStore:SetAsync(key, t)
#6

Here’s something you can use.

local ds = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("PlayerData")

local PlayerStats = {
	["Cash"] = 0,
	["Gems"] = 0,
	["Power"] = 0,
}

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local Prefix = plr.UserId

	local Stats = Instance.new("Folder", plr)
	Stats.Name = "Stats"

	for i,v in pairs(PlayerStats) do
		local NewInst = Instance.new("IntValue", Stats)
		NewInst.Name = i
		NewInst.Value = v
	end

	local Data = nil

	pcall(function()
		Data = ds:GetAsync(Prefix)
	end)

	if Data ~= nil then
		for i,v in pairs(Stats:GetChildren()) do
			v.Value = Data[v.Name]
		end
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	local Prefix = plr.UserId

	local Stats = plr.Stats

	pcall(function()
		if Stats then
			local SaveData = {}

			for i,v in pairs(Stats:GetChildren()) do
				SaveData[v.Name] = v.Value
			end

			ds:SetAsync(Prefix, SaveData)
		end
	end)
end)

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