How To Make A Tool Cooldown?

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#1

Problem:

I wanted to know if there was a way I could make a cooldown that the player has to wait After Unequipping a sword. So basically after they unequip a tool they have to wait X amount of seconds in order to be able to equip it again.

How would I make a time limit for a tool?
#2

You can use debounce?

local debounce = os.clock()
local cooldown = 3 -- seconds

Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function() debounce = os.clock() end)

Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
    if os.clock() - debounce < cooldown then return end
    -- code goes here.
end)
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#3

So this is just a bit of a hacky solution… It works but a better approach would likely be to implement a system which manually equips Tools using functions of the Humanoid like EquipTool.
(code goes in Script not LocalScript as direct child of the Tool)

local cooldown = false

script.Parent.Equipped:connect(function()
	if cooldown then
		local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(script.Parent.Parent)
		if player then
			wait() --Required or otherwise a warning will be triggered about "Setting the Parent of Tool while something else was trying to set its Parent" and the Tool will not be unequipped
			script.Parent.Parent = player.Backpack
		else
			error("Failed to located Player")
		end
	end
end)

script.Parent.Unequipped:connect(function()
	if not cooldown then
		cooldown = true
		wait(5)
		cooldown = false
	end
end)
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#4

Roblox’s wait() is usually a bad practice, you should only check the cooldown when the player equip the tool

#5

What? What’s wrong with wait() and the check in the Unequipped function is necessary to ensure that multiple threads don’t get started for the cooldown debounce.

#6

I just feel like instead of a normal Roblox’s wait(), you should use RunService.Heartbeat:Wait() instead

#7

Developer pages say RunService.Heartbeat is deprecated. Not sure if it’s not up to date or something, but I’ve never really been a fan of Heartbeat. I know it has its use cases but I’ve never had an issue with wait calls being delayed for too long. In this case, I don’t see it causing too big of a problem even if it does.

#8

Works Like a Charm! thanks so much

#9

ill try your solution right away!

#10

Hope this helps!

Only use this if the script is a child of a tool. :smiley:

Script 
local debounce = false
    local cd = 3 -- Change to desired amount (seconds)

       Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
         if debounce == false then
              debounce = true
              wait(cd)
              debounce = false
         end
       end)
       Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
       if debounce == true then
           local char = script.Parent.Parent -- assuming the script is a child of the tool
           char.Humanoid:UnequipTools()
       end
       end)
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#11

The Script did not work but, I really appreciate you taking your time to write this script:)

#12

hmmm Im not sure why it dosent work xD I wrote that in the website and since u already got the answer from the others I’ll just not test it in studio. :laughing: