Instantly Kill upon touching a brick

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1

Hello! Recently, I’ve been having an issue with making a kill block. I know it should be simple, but my script just doesn’t work!

Here’s the script:

	local h = Obj.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if h then
		h.Health = 0
	end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
--

Can anyone spot the problem? I can’t find it.

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2

Is that the whole script? It looks like you missed some code at the top.

local function onTouched(Obj) --This line was missing
	local h = Obj.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if h then
		h.Health = 0
	end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
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3

Ok, let me do that. I’m heading into Roblox Studio to see if it works.

EDIT:
Nope, still doesn’t.

4

Could you show the explorer window? Since I just tested this script and it worked as expected.

5

You need to parent the script to the part you want to be the kill brick for the code provided to work.

6

I did. I know that much about scripting lol

7

Wait, I’ll try it one more time.
EDIT:
Yay it worked! Thanks!!!

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script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
	if hit and hit.Parent and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health = 0
	end
end)
9

I’ll try that one next time, thanks!

10

I have two things to point out:

  1. Hit will always be an Instance and its Parent will always be a descendant of workspace; otherwise, the function would have never fired.
  2. Save what the :FindFirstChild() returns in a variable, don’t throw it away.
11

Setting a Humanoid’s health to 0 is a bad practice. Instead, use h:TakeDamage(DamageAmount).

12

Okay, I will keep this in mind. Thanks!

13

This topic is already solved but I just wanna put this short script out there.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then --if the script finds a humanoid inside hit.Parent then it will run the next line of code
hit.Parent:BreakJoints() --also kills the player
end
end)