How to make items spawn on random spots?

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#1

Im trying to make items spawn randomly in certain areas every couple of seconds, the item will be picked randomly, with a chance, and so will its location. But i keep getting an error at 5: invalid argument #2 to ‘random’ (interval is empty), and im not sure how to fix it.

while true do
	local locations = workspace.Map.Itemspawns:GetChildren()
	local itemfolder = game.ReplicatedStorage.Items:GetChildren()
	local item = itemfolder[math.random(math.max(#itemfolder, 1))]:Clone()
	item.Parent = math.random(#locations, 1)
	item.Handle.Anchored = true
	item.Handle.CFrame = item.Parent.CFrame
	wait(5)
end
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#2

try math.random(1,#locations)

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#3

It seems like you are parenting the item to a number, not an instance.
I’m guessing you want something like this

while true do
	local locations = workspace.Map.Itemspawns:GetChildren()
	local itemfolder = game.ReplicatedStorage.Items:GetChildren()
	local item = itemfolder[math.random(math.max(#itemfolder, 1))]:Clone()
	item.Parent = locations[math.random(1, #locations)]
	item.Handle.Anchored = true
	item.Handle.CFrame = item.Parent.CFrame
	wait(5)
end
#4

It’s working as intended with this, thanks for the help!

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#5

Just one question, how would i go about to making them despawn ?

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#6

Just re-parent them to replicatedstorage.

#7

To make an item despawn, just destroy it.

item:destroy()
#8

@cakemadeofme while loops are a very bad practice, change it to a renderstepped loop or something…