Is there a way I can put stats other then leaderstats?

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#1

  1. I want a way to save stats, for example “money” somewhere other then leaderstats.

  2. I’m horrible at scripting, and I don’t know how I would save it.

  3. I’ve read all over the Dev Hub.

I’m new to scripting, and I have no idea how to do this. Please give me any ideas, or examples. Thanks for reading :slight_smile:

#2

From my knowledge, datastore (leaderstats) in a way, is the only way to save data.

#3

Yes, leaderstats has nothing to do with data saving. It’s just a method of displaying saved data.

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#4

Datastores are completely separate and unrelated to leaderstats.

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#5

I want this, so the leaderstats wont be super extended (mainly) @ pooglies @posatta can you guys give me examples of datastores?

#6

Like posatta said, leaderstats display saved data. However, leaderstats is not the only way to have data, while leaderstats is the way of displaying it, you could just store a value within the player, it won’t be displayed like leaderstats.

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#7

leaderstats has nothing to do with saving, its for displaying stats on the Default Roblox scoreboard.

With this you can save data, be sure to read about the limitations, although i recommend Datastore2 to try to avoid that

You could have the server store the “money” somewhere (within the player, like @Creeperthekid32 said), and have a local script :Connect() to it to change a Gui or something.

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#8

I understand that leaderstats is not datastore, but it could also be used as an inefficient way to save stuff.

#9

It’s not really inefficient if it just outright doesn’t save.

Saving =/= Storing (ty @Creeperthekid32)

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#10

leaderstats is a folder that stores values within the player, DataStores can be used to save the values within leaderstats, which doesn’t mean that leaderstats is a method of saving.

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#11

@Pooglies @Creeperthekid32 @MRePotatoes I don’t want to use leaderstats, because its going to fill up the leaderboard and I don’t want that. Unless theres a way to hide the leaderboard.

#12

To hide the leaderboard, you just don’t create a leaderstats folder in the first place. The leaderboard only is displayed if there are values within a folder, leaderstats, stored in the player.

My method I can think of saving data without using leaderstats is to have a value stored somewhere, in this example I will use ReplicatedStorage. Then you just DataStore it from there, which this is most of the stuff that @posatta and @MRePotatoes had linked, definitely check those links out.

#13

Safest bet, you should use that.

or within ReplicatedStorage, be sure to create a value for every players.