How to save your players' inventory items

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Hey @sjr04 - this is an awesome tutorial, but I did run into an issue:

In your tutorial you showed:

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(client)
	local key = "client_" .. client.UserId
	local inventory = player_data:GetAsync(key) -- Not worrying about pcalls, do that yourself
		
	local inventory_folder = Instance.new("Folder")
	inventory_folder.Name = client.Name
	inventory_folder.Parent = inventories

	for _, name in ipairs(inventory or { }) do
		local tool = tool[name]
		tool:Clone().Parent = client.Backpack -- For the player to use
		tool:Clone().Parent = inventory_folder -- For saving and loading
	end
end)

I’m not sure if you meant to display tool = tools[name] instead of tool[name] - but it was failing to fetch the tools. Which made sense on why I was confused for why tool wasn’t defined globally.

I then did:

local tool = tools[name] - however it then was trying to fetch the baseballbat within the baseballbat, so I made the following adjustments:

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(client)
	local key = "client_" .. client.UserId
	local inventory = player_data:GetAsync(key)
	
	local inventory_folder = Instance.new("Folder")
	inventory_folder.Name = client.Name
	inventory_folder.Parent = inventories
	print("defined all the stuff")
	
wait(10)
	
	for _, name in ipairs(inventory or { }) do
		print("started for loop")
		wait(1)
		print(tools[name])
		tools[name]:Clone().Parent = client.Backpack
		tools[name]:Clone().Parent = inventory_folder
	end
end)

I added a wait(10) seconds function because the script was processing everything faster then the server was loading in the serverstorage. Perhaps this is because I’m using an empty baseplate to use this tutorial in order to make a custom inventory system?

I hope this helps anybody that may have had similar issues with this tutorial. Again, awesome tutorial - it helped me a lot with understanding the mechanics of for loops with datastore’s, much appreciated! <3

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