Make Tool Return to a Position when a Player Leaves

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#1

So I’m making a horror game and there’s keys that players can get from the workspace that can unlock doors. But I was thinking that if people are playing with each other and someone gets disconnected with a tool in their inventory that it would then break the game. Does anyone know how to move a tool from a players inventory back to a specific location when they leave? If that’s too difficult then maybe somehow the tool could clone itself when picked up so the players can all get one. I just need someway around this issue. Thanks!

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#2

In a script in serverscriptservice:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function OnPlayerAdded(Player)
	local function OnCharacterRemoving(Character)
		for i, v in pairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
			if v:IsA("Tool") then
				v.Parent = workspace
			end
		end
		for i, v in pairs(Player.Backpack:GetChildren()) do
			v.Parent = workspace
		end
	end

	Player.CharacterRemoving:Connect(OnCharacterRemoving)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(OnPlayerAdded)

I got stuck on the character part because it kept saying nil, so this was Forummer’s structure of code from here

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#3

First, you have to detect when a player leaves. Use Players.PlayerRemoving event. Then, check if the player has the tool you want to return, and if so, you just clone the tool (I highly recommend to put the tool inside ServerStorage) and set its position to your choice. Something like this:

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    if player.Backpack:FindFirstChild("ToolName") then
        game:GetService("ServerStorage")["ToolName"]:Clone().Parent = workspace
        game:GetService("ServerStorage")["ToolName"]:Clone().Position = Vector3.new(x, y, z)
    end
)

Tell me if that doesn’t work, so I can help you to solve the issue.

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