How Does Saving A Player's Weapons Work

[Play_MazeOfHeck]

I recently finished making a weapons shop system, however I didn’t use datastore so all of the player’s weapons do not save. The weapons are located in ServerStorage. Can someone please help explain how this would work so I can understand how to do this.

Thanks

[un1ND3X (ice)]

one way to do it would be to save an array of all owned weapons’ names, and upon the player loading back in, just checking a container for items with those names and cloning them to the player’s Backpack

[SaIamancas (Lalo)]

In addition to what @XxELECTROFUSIONxX just said, don’t use regular datastores.

USE DATASTOREEEEEE2
Read thread on its benefits.

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[ArtFoundation]

Datastore wiki page here.

Tutorial on saving/loading data here.

You would likely save a table for the player that represents their inventory so you can give the weapons in it back to them when they join back.

Or use Datastore2 like b_oolean said but you’ll still have to learn how to use it somehow either by tutorial or trying to use it yourself with its documentation on you.

[sjr04 (uep)]

I wrote a tutorial on how to save items like weapons.

How to save your players' inventory items

In this tutorial, I will show you how to save player’s inventory items. Setup The way I do it with storing tools, is having a folder in ServerStorage named Tools, and all my tools would go there. [image] A second folder would be a folder containing sub-folders, which would contain each players’ inventory. Example of hierarchy: [image] The Inventories folder would start out empty, but a folder with the name of the player who joins will be created, and the tools they have will be put in the…

[DoctorBurn]

If you are a beginner, and don’t know datastores, using datastore would be like running before even walking. It would cause alot of confusion. I agree with using DataStore2, but I think he should learn regular datastores first.