How to save specific item data

[AstricFox (Re_Myx)]

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What do you want to achieve?
I want to save the data of an item the player has. My game will hat items and some weapons can be enchanted/may have stuff like durability you know? I want to save the data to a datastore for each player

What solutions have you tried so far?
I currently have an inventory data system in a table. I already tried saving a table within a table, but that doesnt work obviously. I thought about multiple datastores but thats extremely messy. What i am looking for is the most effective way to put an item into a table or other form of storable data and call it back later, along with its data such as Enchantments or such that’ll make it different than other items of the same model (i.e. a enchanted sword is different than a normal sword, or a sword with a different enchantment)

local datastoreModule = require(game.ServerScriptService.Data.MainModule);
local dataname = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.STORAGE.storageInfo.infoDatastores)[script.Name]

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local currentDatastore = datastoreModule(dataname, plr)
	local datatable = {
		
	}

	if currentDatastore:Get() ~= nil then
		for i = 1,#datatable do
			if currentDatastore:Get()[i] == nil then
				table.move(datatable, i, i, i, currentDatastore:Get())
			end
		end
		datatable = currentDatastore:Get()
	else
		currentDatastore:Set(datatable)
	end

	game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(newplr)
		if plr.Name == newplr.Name then
			if not plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Backpack") then return end
			
			local newinvtable = {}
			for i,Item in pairs(plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Backpack"):GetChildren()) do
				table.insert(newinvtable, Item.Name)
			end

			currentDatastore:Set(newinvtable)
		end
	end)
end)

[EmmieShayz (Emmie)]

To achieve this you need to serialize whatever attributes a weapon can have. Here’s a tutorial:

How to save parts, and the idea of Serialization

This article is the answer to the famous question “How to save objects using Datastore” and many other ways to word it. If you played with Datastore for enough time, I think you already know that Instances such as parts and models ect. can’t be simply saved using :SetAsync(), which makes it hard to save objects. Most people, with games that are supposed to have slots and stuff on them that you want to save, get stuck when doing this, although, I think finding a way to go over this is quite eas…

Depending on the structure of your items, you’d insert additional things into your data table.

Replace

@AstricFox

table.insert(newinvtable, Item.Name)

with

local ItemData = {
	Name = Item.Name
}

table.insert(newinvtable, ItemData)

This will allow you to expand on which things get saved, via adding new fields such as Enchantments and so on.