How to make it so that when a player clicks a button, they get a tool

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#1

I was trying to make it so that when the player clicks the TextButton, there is a new Tool in the StarterPack. I had no clue how to do this, but I tried it anyway. This is the code I came up with.

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(plr)
	local T = Instance.new("Tool", game.StarterPack)
	T.Name = "Tool1"
	local R = Instance.new("Part", T)
	T.Name = "Handle"
	R.Parent = T
end)

There were no error messages in the output box. I’m new to scripting, and don’t know too much! Please help!

Thanks!

#2

You can’t put the tool inside the StarterPack, it has to be placed inside the player’s backpack, which can be done like so:

local tool -- the tool you want to move into backpack
tool.Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack
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#3

MouseButton1Click does not have any parameters, so you cannot get the player that clicked it. You should use a LocalScript if you aren’t, and use LocalPlayer, to give it to their backpack, and not StarterPack, like @Spraden said.

Additionally, it may also be a good idea to have the server give the tool to the player, by using a RemoteEvent.

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#4

but you can add tools inside StarterGear, but it would need Clone to do that.

local tool -- the tool you want to move into backpack
local toolClone = tool:Clone()--clones the tool, the Achievable property inside the tool should be set to True for it to get cloned
toolClone.Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack--you can remove this, but this is if you want it to be added into the backpack without resetting to get it.
toolClone.Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.StarterGear