How to make player invincible

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#1

As the title suggest, I am making a debug menu and my first button is to make the player invulnerable to all sources of damage.

I have tried giving the player a force field, however when I place a part that takes away the players health it still damages and kills the player.

Additionally I have tried simply setting the player health really big and constantly restoring the health, however that means the script will run constantly and I want to find an alternative.

local character = player.Character

function pressed ()
	local FF = Instance.new("ForceField", character)
end

invulnButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(pressed)

After some research I found out the force field may only act as a way to prevent the player from exploding.

So what alternative should I use to prevent any damage being given?

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#3

Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough :stuck_out_tongue:

What i meant was the player would take damage and would not get it restored (since the player regen is disabled for game play) without using a loop function.

For example:

while bigHealth == true do
   Player.Humanoid.Health == max
   wait(however long)
end

I would prefer not need to call back to this script at all in this regard.

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#5

Disable the humanoid dead state? Also, forcefields only negates damage through Humanoid:TakeDamage, so it won’t prevent damage that manipulates the health directly.

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#7

Just tested it out and the player still takes damage from Humanoid:TakeDamage.

How would you handle it? I might be using it wrong :stuck_out_tongue:

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#8

Are you sure you’re doing Humanoid:TakeDamage(99)
and follows one of these conditions :

  • The ForceField shares the same Instance/Parent as the Humanoid
  • The ForceField is parented to the Humanoid/RootPart of the Humanoid
  • The ForceField is parented to an ancestor of the Humanoid other than the Workspace
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#9

Would this happen to satisfy the requirements?

function onTouched(hit)
	script.Parent.Sound:play()
	hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid"):TakeDamage(99) 
end
script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouched)

image

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#10

Are you creating the forcefield on the server or the client? From the first post it seems you are creating it from the client. You should fire a remote and create the forcefield on the server.

Because the part damages from the server it cannot see the locally created forcefield.

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#11

Just use the HealthChanged event on Humanoid, if you want the health to floor on 1.

Humanoid.HealthChanged:Connect(function(health)
    if health < 1 then
        Humanoid.Health = 1
    end
end)

-- or permanent

Humanoid.HealthChanged:Connect(function()
    Humanoid.Health = 100 -- or Humanoid.MaxHealth
end)

ForceField is optional, and it can toggle visibility.

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#12

It seemed to work fine, however the player still ended up re spawning even if the player didn’t ‘die’?

Any way to combat that?

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#13

I almost forgot to ask, is this done through a server script? If not, do that. In order to work with it from a LocalScript, proceed firing a RemoteEvent.

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#14

It seems my troubles stem from my use of local scripts :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ll have a look into how to fire remove events and we’ll see from there!

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