How would u save massive Maps and buildings?

[111122233333 (onetwothree)]

Hello!
I was making a game like one of those games where you build a kingdom or Clash of Clans basically. I was wondering how would u save big maps and buildings?

[ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked (notzeussz)]

DataStores could help, but you need to learn serialization to be able to do this. It’s a long process, but once you understand how it works, you can do it!

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…

[DoctorFartPhD]

You wouldn’t save the whole map and parts of the buildings. Instead the data needed to recreate it. Assuming you are creating the buildings and upgrades and the players place them, all you need to save is the position, upgrade level, and type of building, or any other specific data you have like in clash of clans, the xbox targeting air or land.