How to save the "Unlocked" status with the weapon name to DataStore?

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
, , , ,
1

Hi Developers! :wave:

I’m making a new weapon saving system, and I’ve encountered a pretty big problem: I don’t know how to save the “Unlocked” status for all weapons, which is a bool value. Is it possible to save like a table consisted of the weapon name and this bool value?

Any help is really appreciated! :hidere:

1 Like
2

you can do something like

data = {
  unlocked = {
    sword = true
    gun = true
  }
  otherstuff = {}
}
1 Like
3

And I’m just gonna save this like a regular table?

4

yes it is just a regular table

1 Like
5

I would solve this issue by setting the datastore to a blank table, then inserting a table of all the information you want to store using the UpdateAsync() function, the code would probably look like this

local gunData = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("GunAtts")
local success, err = pcall(function()
	gunData:UpdateAsync("Key", function(oldVal)
		local newGunData = {}
		table.insert(newGunData, "Table")
		return newGunData
	end)
end)
if success then print("Yippee!") end
1 Like
6

why not just use :setasync if youre not using the oldval from the update

and storing in string keys is more readable

1 Like
7

Ah thats true, If you just wanted to change the table entry then this would work, since GunAtts would only have one entry you could also just store one table

1 Like
8

I’ll test all of them tomorrow and I’m gonna put the solution thing to the most efficient one

9 
Data = {
    Weapons = {
            Gun = {
                Unlocked = true,
                ...
            },
            Sword = {
                Unlocked = false,
                ...
            }
    },
    ...
}
2 Likes