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

[blazinco]

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

[Pooglies]

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

[rogchamp (pasta)]

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

Edit: Related topic:

Using Data Store without "leaderstats"?

Hi What are you attempting to achieve? (Keep it simple and clear) So basically, I am wanting to have a “2 currency” game economy. TL:DR, I want to have Rubees and Coins. But I dont want the leaderboard (see picture below) [image] But (as far as I have understood, the easiest way to use the Data Store API, is to do it via leaderstats. (Have a folder, model etc. with the currencies inside and then it will be shown in game on a leaderboard + all the other code) What is the issue? (Keep it s…

[rogchamp (pasta)]

Datastores are completely separate and unrelated to leaderstats.

[blazinco]

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

[Creeperthekid32]

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.

[ev1]

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

I want a way to save stats

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/Data-store
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/DataStoreService
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.
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/NumberValue/Changed

[Pooglies]

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

[ev1]

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

Saving =/= Storing (ty @Creeperthekid32)

[Creeperthekid32]

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.

[blazinco]

@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.

[Creeperthekid32]

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.

[ev1]

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.
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/NumberValue/Changed

Safest bet, you should use that.

you could just store a value within the player

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