Infinite Yield on ServerStorage:WaitForChild("Paper1") even though it exists

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    Im making a system where it would load the tool that the player had before leaving the game. Basically a tool saving system
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    It keeps saying “Infinite yield possible on ‘ServerStorage:WaitForChild(“Paper1”)’” even though “Paper1” exists
    Here is the script:
while true do
	game.ServerStorage:WaitForChild("Paper"..tostring(game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("SecretFolder").Paper.Value+1)):Clone().Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack
	if game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack:WaitForChild("Paper"..tostring(game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("SecretFolder").Paper.Value+1)) then
		break
	end
end

EDIT: After some time of debugging. This is what i came up:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
          game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent1:FireClient(plr)
end)

Local script:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent1.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	while true do
		print("a")
		local PaperTool = game.ReplicatedFirst:FindFirstChild("Paper"..(plr.SecretFolder.Paper.Value+1)):Clone()
		PaperTool.Parent = plr.Backpack
		print("ab")
		if plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Paper"..tostring(plr.SecretFolder.Paper.Value+1)) then
			print("break loop")
			break
		end
	end
end)

For some reason it prints “break loop” despite still not having the tool stored in my inventory

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#2

Try using FindFirstChild instead of WaitForChild.

#3

Tried it. But it gives me an error called “attempt to index nil with ‘Clone’”

#5

Oh yeah my bad for the misinformation in the title. Paper1 does exist in ServerStorage

#7

a

#9

LocalScripts can not access server storage. Either way, cloning would be client sided and the tool would not work.

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#10

It works but the tool sometimes dissapears

#12

Either way, you should clone it from the server.

#13

Thats what i did. But sometimes it gives me the tool and sometimes it does not

#14

Add print statements to make sure it’s running

#15

Tried it and it does print it. But it still didn’t give me the tool

I tried checking server storage while i was playing when it didn’t give me the tool and the tool still exists in Server storage

#16

I have a question, can players have multiple items or only 1?

When a tool is not equipped you find it in PlayerBackpack

but when a tool is equipped you find it in Player.Character

#17

Players can only have 1 tool since its a simulator game

#18

Okay and are they forced to equip it or they can unequip it

#19

They can unequip it. Equipping it will add a new functionality (clicking to get a stat, basically like a lifting simulator game)

#20

Okay, but the thing is you are requiring server_storage from local script and you can’t, use remotes events and remote function

#21

Yes i know, someone told me that and i fixed it

#22

Okay but now, if the tool is equipped you will not find it because it’s in player character. Instead, unequipped tools can be found in backpack

#23

The tool literally gets in the backpack when you join

#24

This is probably a local script, and the client can’t see the children of server storage.