How to make a simple global leaderboard

[RBX_Magicly (Magicly)]

How do I change it to display Money?

[Conejin_Alt (DisplayNameHere)]

Hello! I want to know how do i set a line where i can set what players cannot appear in the leaderboard, some kind of banned people or developers who wants to test stuff with a high value of “Rebirths” without appearing on the leaderboard.

[ThatTimothy]

I discuss in detail how to do this in the FAQ section. Please read this before asking a question.

@REALTimothy0812

Why only pointsService? How can I use it without pointsService?

I used pointsService in this tutorial for simplicity sake. If you want to pull the value from somewhere, you can easily reroute the value by defining w as something else.

In the example below, we set w to the player’s cash leaderstat. plr is the player, so reroute w however you like.

[ThatTimothy]

The easiest way to do this is check if a players name is on the list, and if it is, send the value 0 to the function.

In the reply above, I linked to the FAQ section which explains how to modify the value in detail.

Another solution is to change the max value to exclude those values.

[Tobycon]

Is there a way to return multiple values from the table so I can get say players rank.Value and Kills.Value?

[ThatTimothy]

Yes, but you have to make multiple copies of the script, and change where the data is stored (:GetOrderedDataStore(name)).

OrderedDataStores can only store a single numerical value, so that’s the best possible solution using Roblox, without owning your own data manager.

[Tobycon]

Okay I might just update the server every time the players kills.value or rank.value stat changes instead

[ThatTimothy]

Word of warning: You should limit your updates to at least once every 60 seconds, as there are data store request limits.

To clarify: This is only for data store values, value object are not subject to the limit.

Limits in detail (You have to scroll down): Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[LandofLee1620]

The global leaderboard isn’t working for me. It’s giving me this error in the output:

I’m not sure what that means…

[ThatTimothy]

AwardPoints was discontinued, so pull the value from somewhere else. (It might also just be internet connection) You can look at some of the above replies to figure out how.

How to make a simple global leaderboard

I discuss in detail how to do this in the FAQ section. Please read this before asking a question.

[vf9r]

Thank you, very helpful, my development team will be taking this into consideration!!

[Tricky_Itch]

I know this is an older post; hope its okay to post here. I wanted to thank ThatTimothy for putting together such a thorough and educational post…and for sharing all of the resources. I actually pulled this model into my first game, and made the points modification suggested in the FAQ, and its worked flawlessly since.

A rookie question: My first game was only saving a single value in the Datastore. In my current game I’m saving many values to a single Datastore using a table. I only need the leaderboard to display a single value (Experience). Should I use a second Datastore to record Experience only, or is there a way to pull just a single value from the table into the leaderboard?

Old working code – I added the yellow highlighted replacing the above line:

New datastore saving – I would like to show only Experience in the board.

Again – appreciate the education here…

[ThatTimothy]

OrderedDataStores can only store one numerical value, and will only be able to sort their individual OrderedDataStore. Since a regular DataStore and the OrderedDataStore are completely separate, you must make a OrderedDataStore for each leaderboard you wish to have.

[Tricky_Itch]

Thanks for the response and again for sharing this.

[Jordan1_z]

Hey, so I am not the best scripter. I am going to use this as a base to my leaderboard. But, how do I change it to leaderstat values? Because I am still getting to know lua, and it is confusing for me.

[ThatTimothy]

As I listed in the tutorial and in the replies below (please read them before you ask a question), you can change the value used.

How to make a simple global leaderboard

Yes, it is depreciated. I wanted to use something simple so I did not have to go through how data stores work ect. Change this line of code: for i,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do--Loop through players if plr.UserId>0 then--Prevent errors local ps = game:GetService("PointsService")--PointsService >>>>>>>>>>> local w = ps:GetGamePointBalance(plr.UserId)--Get point balance if w then pcall(function() --Wrap in a pcall so if Roblox is down, it won't error and break. …

[polarisprog]

Thank you so much this helped a lot!!

[CheeseGodTheEpic (Cheese God)]

@ThatTimothy

and you can add cylinders to create a rounded leaderboard

@ThatTimothy what do you mean? How would I do that?

If you respond, be sure to tag me, I get a lot of notifications.

[ThatTimothy]

@Derpee_Kirbee If you need people to tag you, you should change your notification settings
To create a cylinder you can do the following:

You just put vertical cylinders at the corners of 2 parts to create a part which appears to be rounded. You can also do this with meshes.

[jees1 (Jees)]

Hey, I just noticed this and it is amazing. Though, I see it works with how many joins the player has. What should I need to modify to make it show how many minutes a player has played the game?