How to use reserved servers

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Hello,

after looking at the devforum for well over 2 hours, im here to say I still have no idea how to use reserved servers. Here is what im looking for:

the player gets to input a code for a world they create

that code saves forever,

when a someone inputs that join code they can join that same server even tho the owner is not there

is this even possible?

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I would probably use datastoreservice to save information about certain worlds and their status and then save the access code for later use.

My server script would look something like this.

local teleportservice = game:GetService("TeleportService")
local players = game:GetService("Players")

local savedData = { ["Code"] = { isActive = false, accessCode = nil } } -- this is example data saved in the datastore

local placeid = game.PlaceId
local remoteEvent: RemoteEvent

function teleportToWorld(player, code)
	local worldInfo = savedData[code]
	local accessCode = worldInfo.accessCode
	
	if (not worldInfo.isActive) then
		accessCode = teleportservice:ReserveServer(placeid)
		worldInfo.accessCode = accessCode -- update datastore too
	end
	
	teleportservice:TeleportToPrivateServer(placeid, accessCode, {player})
end

remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(teleportToWorld)

and then the local script will just fire that remote with the code to teleport to it.
In the reserved servers you could probably add a script that uses game:BindToClose() to set the active status of the server to false and remove the old access code