Kinda confused on how cloning works

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#1

Basically, what I want to achieve is for the code to pick a random player, clone them, then swap their body with the clone and take that actual player away, however with the code I have, It will not allow me to parent the clone to workspace, in return stating that “clone is a nil value” . Without the “:Clone()” at the end of local clone, it prints my name. What am I doing wrong ;o?

Code 
	wait(6)
	
	local PlayerCount = game.Players:GetChildren()
	
	
	local random = math.random(1,#game.Players:GetChildren())
	
	
		local Chosen = PlayerCount[random]
	local clone = Chosen.Character:Clone()
	_G.P1 = Chosen
	
	print(clone)
	clone.Parent = workspace
	clone.Name = "".. tostring(Chosen) .."2"
	
	clone:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame = CFrame.new(102.225, 42.502, 1038.45)*CFrame.fromEulerAnglesXYZ(math.rad(0), math.rad(180), math.rad(0))
	game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(tostring(Chosen)):FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame = CFrame.new(83.846, 4.6, 1017.737)
	
	
	print(clone.name)

I know I’m going to facepalm when I hear the answer, but I’m tired right now so I can’t find it myself >.<

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#2

Can you show the Output? So I can understand the code to try to help.

#3

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Line 14 being “clone.Parent = workspace”

and the nil being printed coming from print(clone)

EDIT: and this is the entire script.

#4

Try to make it game.Workspace insted of workspace its self sometimes script gets confused for me.

#5

Player characters have archivable set to false, so you can’t clone them

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#6

That worked, thanks so much!!!

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#7

Interesting, is there a particular reason why this is the case?

#9

@DrxpLoxs Makes no difference.

@ileph Archivable, if you’ve seen the article, just prevents the instance from being saved. Imagine you have a build game with saving or something similar. If you hit save, the character will be in that snapshot. Really it’s mainly to prevent characters and players from being published (e.g. why Team Create sessions don’t push players to the production build as well), saved or cloned.

You can use it in Studio too. A plugin might create instances to be used and setting Archivable to false prevents those plugin materials from showing up in a live game.