How to clone a tool into the player's invetory after purchase

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#1

Hey! im trying to make a script in which if you buy a tool (with in-game coins) then you get a tool that will be in ur invetory forever so you don’t have to buy it everytime u rejoin.

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#2

save it to their datastore (like a value that this person has this gamepass), or check if this person has that gamepass upon joining

#3

How would i do that? (i suck at scripting sry)

#4

Here are some tutorials I found around YouTube, Follow these steps and you will be able to save tools.

Both are from popular Roblox Studio youtube creators!

#5

I would start by creating a folder in ReplicatedStorage named Tools which will contain all of the available tools, and a script in ServerScriptService.

The code to put is below! By simply calling the AddTool function, it clones that tool inside of the specified player & saves it into a DataStore so that it’s there forever.

The first argument of the function should be the tool’s name and the second argument should be the player object.

Example | AddTool(“Sword”, game.Players.Someone)

Code 
local ds = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("tools")

local toolsfolder = game.ReplicatedStorage.Tools

local temp = {}

function AddTool(tool_name,player_instance)
	if temp[player_instance.UserId] ~= nil then
		table.insert(temp[player_instance.UserId],tool_name)
		if toolsfolder:FindFirstChild(tool_name) then
			local newitem = toolsfolder[tool_name]:Clone()
			newitem.Parent = player_instance.Backpack
		else
			warn("Tool not found in the folder!")
		end
	end
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	local data = ds:GetAsync(plr.UserId)
	
	if data ~= nil then
		for i,v in pairs(data) do
			if toolsfolder:FindFirstChild(v) then
				local newitem = toolsfolder[v]:Clone()
				repeat
					wait(0.01)
				until plr:FindFirstChild("Backpack")
				wait(0.05)
				newitem.Parent = plr.Backpack
			else
				warn("Tool not found in the folder!")
			end
		end
		temp[plr.UserId] = data
	else
		temp[plr.UserId] = {}
	end
	
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	
	if temp[plr.UserId] ~= nil then
		ds:SetAsync(plr.UserId,temp[plr.UserId])	
	end
		
end)

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reply !

#6

not in replicated storage, that would make it accessible with local scripts, which can be injected

#7

a folder which server storage clones into would work though

#8

They can change the location of the folder in the script by modifying the “toolsfolder” variable.